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 an Electrical Engineer intern, you will design, develop, modify and evaluate components used in electronic devices that involve the manipulation, transmission, and storage of electricity. This opportunity will allow you to define design approaches, implementation schedules, technical specifications and parameters for devices. You will partake in selecting materials and components based on analysis of specifications and reliability. You will help develop test plans and direct support personnel, or other engineers, in the preparation and execution of design testing or prototype fabrication.

This role is responsible for end‑to‑end hardware quality engineering for large‑scale AI and GPU‑based data center fleets, with a focus on early failure detection, root cause analysis, and operational quality enablement. The position partners closely with data center operations, firmware, platform engineering, diagnostics, and vendor teams to improve hardware reliability, reduce repeat incidents, and accelerate mean‑time‑to‑resolution (MTTR) across production AI infrastructure.

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.

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Responsibilities

• Performs single‑node and rack‑level validation to confirm hardware remediation effectiveness before fleet re‑entry.

• Analyzes large volumes of hardware telemetry, logs, and diagnostics data to identify systemic failure patterns and repeat offenders.

• Partners with diagnostics and platform teams to enable out‑of‑band telemetry collection (e.g., BMC SEL, PCIe health indicators), integrate diagnostics into existing operational tools and workflows.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Currently pursuing Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.

• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

Additional or Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (or currently pursuing) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) of technical engineering experience

  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

• Experience with server architectures and/or their subsystems – including GPU, CPU, AI hardware, Memory and methods for root cause analysis and debugging.

• 3+ months related technical engineering experience or internship experience.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $5,690.00 - $11,210.00 per month. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations 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 here: 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 - April)

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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