Silicon Engineering Intern

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 This opportunity will allow you to Designs, develops, modifies and evaluates electronic parts, components, or integrated circuitry for digital electronic devices and other digital electronic systems. Defines design architecture and operating parameters for circuitry and microelectronic components. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability. Analyzes designs and components to establish operating parameters and performance requirements to define complete pre-silicon verification test cases. Develops test plans and directs support personnel, or other engineers, in the preparation and execution of design verification testing. Analyzes data generated from test results to perform pre-silicon verification of operating parameters and performance requirements.

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

• Contribute to and improve the hardware solutions we develop.
• Uses performance instrumentation and presents results to team and architects.
• Think strategically, creatively, and innovate ways to communicate and visualize user experiences.
• Implements or recommends technical solutions to common quality and design challenges, with guidance from others (including logic design, verification, circuit design, physical design, and design for test).
• Uses standard practices to write complete design verification test cases, test benches, or automation.
• Assists in writing tests for formal pre-silicon verification of subsystems within a single block; includes the use of simulation and emulation tools, as well as tests for signal integrity, to prevent bugs/failures before production
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualification

Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical & Electronics/Computer Science Engineering.

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

Experience or classes 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
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.