Silicon Engineering Internship

Overview

Join Microsoft's Silicon Engineering team as an intern and collaborate with thousands of university interns from around the world. This opportunity lets you bring your aspirations, talent, and potential to work on cutting-edge technology.

As a Silicon Engineering Intern, you will design, develop, modify, and evaluate electronic parts, components, or integrated circuitry for digital electronic devices and systems. You'll define design architecture and operating parameters for circuitry and microelectronic components, select components based on specifications and reliability, and analyze designs to establish operating parameters and performance requirements. You'll also develop pre-silicon verification test cases, create test plans, and direct support personnel or other engineers in design verification testing. Analyze test data to verify operating parameters and performance requirements.

Interns work on real-world projects with teams across the globe, building community and exploring passions. This is your chance to bring solutions and ideas to life.

Academic credit may be available through the Microsoft Intern Program; university-specific requirements beyond academic credit are not supported. This internship begins February 1, 2027, and spans six months.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and improve the hardware solutions we develop.
• Use performance instrumentation and present results to team and architects.
• Think strategically and creatively to communicate and visualize user experiences.
• Implement or recommend technical solutions to common quality and design challenges, with guidance from others (including logic design, verification, circuit design, physical design, and design for test).
• Use standard practices to write complete design verification test cases, test benches, or automation.
• Assist in writing tests for formal pre-silicon verification of subsystems within a single block, including simulation and emulation tools and signal integrity tests to prevent bugs before production.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining after the internship.

Additional or Preferred qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience or classes in: Digital Logic Design and Simulation; Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures; Embedded Systems and Firmware; knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, UVM; knowledge of C/C++ and scripting languages; experience with digital timing analysis, synthesis, place-and-route; circuit design including VLSI design and solid-state devices.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $5,690.00 - $11,210.00 per month. A different range applies to specific work locations, including the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, where the range is USD $7,410.00 - $12,250.00 per month.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information at the Microsoft careers site.

Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers on an ongoing basis throughout the academic calendar (September - April). This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted until filled.