# Research Intern - Gray Systems Lab (GSL)

OverviewResearch Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally recognized scientists and engineers. Our researchers and engineers pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment. Gray Systems Lab (GSL) is an applied research lab within Azure Data. We conduct research and development in databases, big data, and cloud systems, working closely with product teams to design innovative solutions to real-world problems. Our team is friendly and inclusive. We focus on a variety of exciting areas, including: machine learning for systems, reinforcement learning, fine-tuning and post-training techniques, agentic workflows and systems, resource management, query optimization and execution. We also work on workload optimization, graph analytics, data storage formats and governance, modern and emerging hardware (e.g., GPUs, NVM, and FPGAs), program analysis, data provenance, and ontologies. Our work spans both Microsoft internal and open-source systems, including Fabric, S

- **Id**: 4197170
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-research-intern-gray-systems-lab-gsl-3>
- **Role**: Early Careers
- **Role family**: Early Careers
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Madrid, Spain
- **Countries**: ES
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T19:11:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T20:44:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 15
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4384
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 521
- **Ghost share**: 0.01
- **Stale share**: 0.568
- **Repost share**: 0.05
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 4000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: month
- **Usd annual**: 53064

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 15

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T20:44:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 15
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:mid, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T22:33:39Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 53064
- **Is top pay**: yes

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