Penetration Testing Intern

Overview

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.

As a Penetration Testing Intern, under supervision, you will identify problems and vulnerabilities through application of engineering to dynamically penetrate software, hardware, or human systems. You will work on efforts that result in security bug discovery, exploitation, and suggested security controls and mitigations in response to security flaws. You will develop and implement pen testing strategies and apply your expertise to engineer solutions. You will help influence mitigations for current and future products and solutions.

At Microsoft, interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You'll be empowered to build community, explore your passions, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

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.

Responsibilities

Identifies security vulnerabilities within specialty or area of responsibility. Able to come up to speed on new targets with the help of others. Leverages known information channels to gain context. Corroborates guidance against real-world observations, determines and understands scope of potential impact, and identifies variance or instances of known issues.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field, with at least one semester or term of school remaining following the completion of the internship. OR Currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field, with at least one semester or term of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

Preferred Qualifications:

Currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.