Security Applied AI/ML Research Intern - Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center

Microsoft Internship Opportunity

Start Date: July 2026

Contract Type: Internship (40hrs/week) Duration: 12-weeks

Location: London, United Kingdom

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of university interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has unique optics into end-to-end cyber-attacks and how different stages manifest across our telemetry. By partnering across the company, we build proof-of-concept solutions that showcase new detection capabilities, through novel correlation and analysis methodologies. Our work contributes directly to the customer-facing security tools provided by Microsoft, achieving large scale global impact.

As part of MSTIC’s DS&AI team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse, global team of security experts from across the CISO org as part of one of the largest security research organizations in the world, benefiting from Microsoft’s unique view of the threat landscape. Through mentoring from an experienced AI/ML researcher, you will be able to build your technical skills and gain valuable industry experience.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.