Software Engineer 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 Software Engineering Intern, you will build end-to-end product experiences across user interfaces, APIs, and backend services. You will collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to create intuitive, accessible, and high-quality experiences that delight customers. You will contribute across the full development lifecycle, from designing responsive user interfaces and building scalable services to testing, debugging, and iterating on features based on customer feedback. This opportunity will enable you to strengthen your full-stack engineering skills while delivering experiences that impact millions of users around the world.

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

• Apply engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
• Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
• Quickly learn new engineering methods and incorporate them into work processes.
• Seek feedback and apply internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.
• Demonstrate skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.
• Review current developments and proactively seek new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with at least one semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship, OR currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with at least one semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year(s) of programming experience.
• 6+ months of experience in delivering projects in teams.
• 1+ year(s) of experience in developing and applying data structures and algorithms.
• Coursework, projects, or prior experience building end-to-end applications.
• Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript and modern web frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Experience building backend services using C#, Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, testing frameworks, accessibility principles, and modern software engineering practices.
• Coursework, projects, or prior experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or data science.
• Experience programming in Python and familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar technologies.
• Understanding of machine learning concepts, model evaluation, retrieval systems, large language models, or prompt engineering.