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work on highly strategic and industry-relevant projects. If you excel at solving complex problems, writing high-

systems using the latest technologies, we would like to hear from you. You will also be responsible to build AI

edge AI technology.

tackle our next set of significant challenges. You will be empowered to envision, design, code, validate, and

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging and analytical skills.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in C++ or similar languages with memory management and address manipulation. Familiarity with system level coding, troubleshooting and debugging, multithreading and high-performance backend systems.

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• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for various scenarios.

• Drive the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.

• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive project plans, release plans, and work items for the workgroup.

• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status, and initiating actions to restore systems/products/services for both simple and complex problems when appropriate.

• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

• Lead by example, engage in discussions on the architecture of products or solutions, and apply engineering principles to establish robust and maintainable architecture and designs.

• Overcome roadblocks to deliver work to users quickly and iteratively.

• Drive, coach, and mentor others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews.

• Design, develop, and operationalize the deployment of complex, enterprise-grade cloud services that leverage multiple services and platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.

• Be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of these services, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and security.

• Drive improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.

• Deliver value through a collaborative approach spanning multiple teams across geographies.

• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving.

• Support and influence the team culture towards customer-centricity and continuous improvement.

• Implement practices that ensure accurate, safe, and efficient releases for our services.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, or equivalent.
• Basic knowledge of computer hardware and components.
• Past or current Microsoft Data Center Academy Student.
• Currently pursuing or have completed a certificate or degree in Information Technology, Information and Communication Technology, or a closely related field.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Applicable certifications: CompTIA (A+, Server+, Network+), Basic Structure Cabling (BSC).
• Ability to support frequent standing, walking, lifting, and working at heights with or without equipment assistance.
• Able to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders.
• Proficient in written and oral English communication to support regional and global teams.
• Desire to learn, grow, and develop new technical skills.
• Flexibility to work non-standard business hours that may include weekends and/or holidays.

Data Center Technician Intern- The base pay range for this internship is USD $22.02 - $28.46 per hour. 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 $26.20 - $29.71 per hour.

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• Support deployment of on-site datacenter physical infrastructure
• Install, replace, and troubleshoot cables and hardware
• Handle data bearing devices (ex. Hard drives, solid state drives, etc.)
• Work within a ticket-based environment
• Move equipment using pallet jacks or other assisted lifting equipment.
• As required, assist the Datacenter Inventory and Asset Management Team (DIAT) with shipping/receiving and inventory management to address high work volumes.
• Embody our culture and values.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 6+ years of industry experience in engineering, product management, or technical program management with an emphasis on government and industry customers that are mission focused and/or deal with sensitive and classified workloads.
• Experience bringing new approaches or different ways of doing things to an existing problem space.
• Demonstrated situational awareness. You will be working closely with other product group people across Microsoft (Directors, Group Managers etc.) you will also work closely with customer leadership, engineers, and system administrators. You will have to be able to adjust your approach to the specific audience.
• Deep understanding and experience of the Intelligence and/or Security domain(s), key challenges, priorities, and stakeholders
• Previous experience and success in an engineering role where you delivered cloud services along with demonstrated experience of engineering practices and engaging engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
• Proven initiative and influence with demonstrated ability to solve challenging and complex problems requiring the effort and impact of a diverse cross team.
• Experience tailoring processes and governance structures to balance rigor and consistent results while moving fast and driving innovation.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 13th 2025.

• Drive and effectively manage strategic and complex projects with executive visibility and critical dependencies across a variety of cross functional teams.
• Develop a deep understanding of how government customers use Azure and their need for differentiating technologies with data sensitivity top of mind.
• Engage colleagues across a large, diverse, and distributed organization to drive decisive action that delivers results for expanding the market for Azure across international governments
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, marketing, compliance, finance, legal, and other Microsoft teams to translate customer demand signals into platform priorities to unblock Azure growth.
• Remove customer barriers to cloud adoption by ensuring government-relevant infrastructure, security, and identity requirements are built into Azure services to support sensitive government workloads
• Establish and drive the rhythm of business (meeting cadence), core set of stakeholders, and right sized reporting to offer rigor and transparency while still allowing the team to move fast
• Traditional PM functions: quality control, risk management, developing and tracking project schedules, communicating to key stakeholders, effective and efficient decision making, meeting deadlines
• Be Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, engage Engineering teams to remove blockers.

You will be accountable for:

• Service / Product Definition – Partner with engineering teams to design architecture and integrate customer solutions that address priority customers and broad market needs. Define program goals and prioritize feature requests into feature release milestones. Define success criteria and performance metrics while managing delivery and actively identify and mitigate risks using data driven approaches.
• Service / Product Development – Drive cross functional team orchestration for complex delivery of features against the service/product roadmap. Develop, track, coordinate, and manage risk of end-to-end project delivery schedules at tactical and executive levels. Understand critical path and dependencies to hold stakeholders accountable adjusting as needed to ensure successful project delivery.
• Service / Product Performance – Identify, collect, and summarize performance metrics to derive deep insights to lead to course corrections and optimizations. Leverage customer listening, telemetry, root cause analysis to form hypothesis and make data drive recommendations to engineering teams

Embody our and .

As a Software Engineer II in this team, you will contribute to Azure host networking infrastructure by designing and deploying agents that integrate hardware and software components to ensure consistent and efficient networking for current and future Azure hosts. You will also develop Network Interface Card (NIC) servicing software to support AI and other Azure workloads at scale.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) technical experience working in low level systems development (Ex. networking, drivers, etc.).
• 1+ year(s) technical experience with computer networking, and general cloud technologies.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++,Rust C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team, you will help build secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-native infrastructure. Your focus will be on cross-cutting security concerns across the AKS stack, including designing and implementing secure-by-default features, improving threat modeling, and integrating artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tooling to enhance security workflows. You will collaborate with engineers across the stack to build libraries, services, and automation that strengthen the security posture of AKS.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ year(s) experience with Kubernetes, Go programming language (Golang), and cloud-native technologies.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ year(s) experience with Kubernetes, Go programming language (Golang), and cloud-native technologies.

• 4+ year(s) experience building and operating cloud-based and distributed systems, with a strong understanding of scalability, reliability, authentication, and authorization in production environments.

• 1+ year(s) experience working with artificial intelligence (AI) and agentic technologies, such as large language models (LLMs), autonomous agents, or AI-assisted development tools including GitHub Copilot, security analyzers, and anomaly detection systems.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 17th, 2025.

• Design and implement secure, scalable components and libraries for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), contributing to cloud-native infrastructure that supports a wide range of workloads.
• Collaborate with security and engineering teams to identify and address cross-cutting security concerns across the AKS stack.
• Develop and integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tools to support threat modeling, code analysis, and incident response.
• Contribute to automation and tooling that improves the quality of security signals and enhances developer productivity.
• Participate in design reviews and help shape secure-by-default architecture decisions.
• Stay current with emerging trends in security, AI technologies, and developments in the Kubernetes ecosystem.

• Currently enrolled in a Master or PhD program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.

Other Requirements

• Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager’s Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship.
• In addition to the qualifications below, you’ll need to submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position as well as a cover letter and any relevant work or research samples. After you submit your application, a request for letters may be sent to your list of references on your behalf. Note that reference letters cannot be requested until after you have submitted your application, and furthermore, that they might not be automatically requested for all candidates. You may wish to alert your letter writers in advance, so they will be ready to submit your letter.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and vibrant research environment.
• Willingness to embrace knowledge outside your field of research interest.
• Solid programming skill in Python, PyTorch and experience conducting experiments and writing papers.
• Interdisciplinary research experience across world model, multimodal learning and computer system.
• Experience in LLM, either pre-train or post-train.
• Relevant publications such as CVPR, ACL, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, OSDI, SOSP, etc.

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• Research and Analysis: Conduct thorough research on interdisciplinary topic across world model, multimodality and system.
• Documentation and Reporting: Prepare detailed documentation of simulations, methodologies, and findings. Present results and insights to team members and stakeholders.
• Innovation and Problem-Solving: in-depth knowledge and understanding across different disciplines, strong problem formulation and problem-solving skills.

for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge world. The Microsoft Corporate Strategy Team is a small, specialized group that advises our CEO and executive leadership team on driving, assessing, and prioritizing the long-term strategic direction and growth for the company across its portfolio of existing and new offerings. The team has builta track recordof spotting trends early andthroughout the company. The group broadly focuses on three sets of activities:

• Thought leadership on the future state of the industry (e.g., economics of the cloud) and potential impact to Microsoft’s overall strategy

• Counsel to executives on multi-billion dollardecisions (inclusive of “needle moving” growth drivers, large strategic acquisitions and partnerships, portfolio optimization, etc.)

• Internal projects to ensure Microsoft’s processes and operations enable the company to grow and achieve our mission

As a member of Microsoft’s Corporate Strategy Team, you will drive formal quantitative and qualitative analytical decision support on high-priority, cross-company strategic issues. Example project areasideation, andcompetitive analysis and game theory.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• , Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years, marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • ORMaster's Degree in Business Administrationor related field AND 3+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company, entrepreneurship, management consulting).
• 2+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance

or Preferred Qualifications

• , Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • ORMaster’s Degree in Business Administrationor related fieldAND 6+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company,entrepreneurship).
• 6+yearsexperiencein Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.

Corporate Strategy

• Develop and deliver divisional level analysis, options, execution plans, and recommendations based on analytical rigor, logic, and subject matter expertise
• Proactively spot strategic opportunities missed by others and plot insightful approaches to address them
• Investigates and provides an analysis of competitors, partners, business models, market sizing, and industry trends. Investigates and provides analysis of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding, and public market environment and trends. Conducts market landscape analyses and reviews of companies of potential interest.
• Develops an understanding of Microsoft’s product portfolio, strategic priorities, competitive position, gaps, and potential opportunities. Investigates and provides an analysis of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding and public market environment and trends. Supports and reviews product roadmap, go-to-market, integration plans, and related Issues.

Research, Analysis, & Framing

• Conducts market-based research by identifying and gathering information (e.g., financial statements, reports, analyses, stakeholder feedback, expert calls); interprets information with guidance from tenured colleagues as needed, including researching existing business and identifying new spaces for Microsoft; conducts analyses (e.g., financial modeling) to validate proposed ideas and inform business decisions.
• Assists in refining initial framing established by project lead for strategic questions and applies structure to analysis.

Problem Solving & Insight

• Guide project team problem solving through development of frameworks/methodologies to create insightful analysis and recommendations; identify the right question to frame the team’s work
• Synthesizes findings into insights within a project, including implications that inform business decisions; leverages insights to support strategic recommendations for Microsoft, with guidance from project leads.

Communication

• Produce high-quality executive communications and arguments to facilitate discussions and decision making
• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to executives clearly and succinctly
• Communicates and advocates insights to business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) and conveys viewpoints through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations) through multiple iterations of feedback and vetting, creating and executing outlines.
• Delivers project findings, recommendations, and implications to business partners to facilitate discussions and decision making.

Business Partner Relationships

• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to executives clearly and succinctly
• Establishes and maintains key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering). Builds working relationships with project stakeholders and business partners.
• Shares knowledge with business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) on a particular area of expertise, leveraging and broadening deep technical/product knowledge and market awareness for a domain to inform strategic business decisions.