Software Engineer Internship

Overview

Build community, explore your passions, and do your best work at Microsoft alongside University interns from around the world. This opportunity lets you bring your aspirations, talent, and excitement for the road ahead.

As a Software Engineering Intern focused on AI/ML and LLMs, you will help build AI-powered products and platforms that use machine learning, large language models, and intelligent services. You will work alongside engineers, researchers, signers, and linguistic experts on a technical project matched to your interests, experience, and the team's priorities. You may contribute to model integration, retrieval systems, inference services, evaluation frameworks, or the infrastructure that supports AI applications at scale.

Interns at Microsoft work on real-world projects with teams across the world. You will have the chance to bring your ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

The team is building the data, tools, and models that help technology understand sign language and turn those capabilities into useful experiences. The work covers capturing high-quality signing data, training and evaluating models, and integrating them into products.

This is a 2027 summer internship.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to reach shared goals, guided by respect, integrity, and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Apply engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
• Work with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
• Learn new engineering methods quickly and incorporate them into your work.
• Seek feedback and apply internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.
• Manage your time well and complete software projects in a cooperative team environment.
• Review current developments and seek new knowledge that improves availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products, while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, with at least one semester or term remaining after the internship ends.
• OR currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, with at least one semester or term remaining after the internship ends.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in American Sign Language.
• 1+ year of programming experience.
• 6+ months of experience delivering projects in teams.
• 1+ year of experience developing and applying data structures and algorithms.
• Coursework, projects, or prior experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or data science.
• Understanding of machine learning concepts, model evaluation, retrieval systems, large language models, or prompt engineering.
• Experience using Python or other relevant programming languages through coursework, research, personal projects, or equivalent practical work, including effective use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Interest in computer vision, language technology, accessibility, or human-computer interaction.
• Reliable problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Prior experience with sign language and AI is preferred but not expected.
• Familiarity with APIs, cloud services, distributed computing, search/ranking, RAG architectures, or performance optimization.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $5,690.00 to $11,210.00 per month. Within the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area, the range is USD $7,410.00 to $12,250.00 per month. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Additional benefits and pay information are available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-intern-pay.

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws. For religious accommodations or disability accommodations during the application process, see the accessibility page at https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html.