Hardware Engineering 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.   

A Hardware Engineeing Intern designs, develops, modifies, and evaluates components used in electronic devices that involve mechanical systems and equipment, and/or the manipulation and transmission of electricity. Defines design approaches, technical specifications, and parameters for devices. Ensures that designs and specifications document test requirements that account for customer use scenarios. Selects materials and components based on analysis of specifications and reliability and may work with suppliers to select optimal materials and components for devices. Investigate hardware failures, perform fleet-scale triage, analyze system logs and telemetry, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions that improve platform reliability and customer availability. 

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.

Responsibilities

• Assists in the creation of robust, scalable, secure, and extensible designs and/or verification plans for the hardware engineering aspects of well-defined products or features. 

• Reads device specification sheets and interprets common details required to design and test various hardware features. Ensures that test requirements are included in documentation and specifications for a feature or product. 

• Strategically and creatively innovate ways to communicate and visualize user experiences. 

• Assist in hardware fleet triage and investigation of server, storage, networking, and platform-related issues impacting Azure services. 

• Analyze diagnostic data, telemetry, crash dumps, firmware logs, and hardware health signals to identify failure patterns and root causes. 

• Support debug and validation activities across systems incorporating silicon from multiple vendors, including CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and accelerator technologies. 

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineer, Electronics Engineering, or related field. 
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship. 
• Knowledge of embedded programming and C/C++/C# concepts is preferred. 

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will 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, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.