Microsoft Silicon Engineering Intern
Microsoft Explore and Silicon Engineering Internship Opportunities
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 Explorer Intern, you will experience the primary phases of the product development cycle: design, build, and quality. You will work in a pod with other Explorer Interns as you gain experience in software engineering. This opportunity will allow you to explore various roles in a collaborative learning environment, enhance your problem-solving skills, and learn through mentoring, community building, and networking opportunities.
At Microsoft, Explorer 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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree.
- Must be enrolled in the second year of a 4-year undergraduate degree program at the time of application.
- Completed an Introduction to Computer Science course (or equivalent class) by the start of the program.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated interest in majoring in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or a related technical major.
Responsibilities
- Gains hands-on experience with various software development tools and programming languages.
- Works closely with managers, mentors, and a group of interns to evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and create and implement features and services.
- Experiences core tech discipline (Software Engineering, Software for Hardware).
Silicon Engineering Intern
Multiple Locations, India
Date posted: Jan 29, 2025
Job number: 1775862
Work site: Microsoft on-site only
Travel: 0-25 %
Role type: Individual Contributor
Profession: Hardware Engineering
Discipline: Silicon Engineering
Employment type: Internship
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 Silicon Engineering Intern, you will design, develop, modify, and evaluate electronic parts, components, or integrated circuitry for digital electronic devices and other digital electronic systems. You will define design architecture and operating parameters for circuitry and microelectronic components. Your responsibilities will include analyzing specifications, establishing performance requirements, and defining complete pre-silicon verification test cases. You will also develop test plans and direct support personnel or other engineers in executing design verification testing. Analyzing test results to perform pre-silicon verification of operating parameters and performance requirements will be key aspects of the role.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical & Electronics, or Computer Science Engineering.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience or coursework in the following areas:
- Microelectronics/VLSI courses
- Digital Logic Design and Simulation
- Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
- Embedded Systems and Firmware
- Knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, UVM
- Knowledge of C/C++ and scripting languages
- Experience with digital timing analysis, synthesis, place-n-route
- Circuit design, including VLSI design and solid-state devices
Responsibilities
- Contribute to and improve the hardware solutions developed at Microsoft.
- Use performance instrumentation and present results to team members and architects.
- Think strategically and creatively to innovate ways to communicate and visualize user experiences.
- Implement or recommend technical solutions to common quality and design challenges, including logic design, verification, circuit design, physical design, and design for test.
- Write complete design verification test cases, test benches, or automation scripts.
- Assist in writing tests for formal pre-silicon verification of subsystems within a single block, including the use of simulation and emulation tools, as well as tests for signal integrity, to prevent bugs and failures before production.
Microsoft Benefits and Perks
- Industry-leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.