Hardware Engineering Intern jobs at Microsoft in Taiwan, Taoyuan City

As a Software Engineering PhD Intern, you will work with teammates to solve problems and build innovative software solutions. You will apply your passion for customers and product quality as you provide technical guidance to Technical Program Managers and Product Managers. You will learn and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, methods, and processes to leverage in your solutions. This opportunity will enable you to advance your career by designing, developing, and testing next-generation software that will empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Required Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field during the academic term immediately before the internship.

• Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.

• At least one year of programming experience in an object-oriented language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Academic/research experience with distributed systems, network architecture, operating systems, and/or related topics.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $5610.00 - $11010.00 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 $7270.00 - $12030.00 per month.

• Applies engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.

• Quickly learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into work processes.

• Seeks feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.

• Demonstrates skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.

• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
• Proven experience in TCP/IP BGP, MPLS.
• Experience working with Python/Go/Rust.

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:

• Technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • or related field.
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical experience in network design, development, and automation
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Network engineering experience in a cloud provider, internet service provider, or large enterprise environment.
• Professional software development experience in the networking domain, including proficiency in C#, Python, Go, REST, YAML, and workflow systems.

• Offers modification and improvements to network technologies based on existing and emerging industry knowledge to contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of reliable, scalable, and high-performance networks.
• Works in collaboration with teams across a single organization to develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance, network designs; independently produces design documents and implementation plans.
• Partners with Engineering and Program Management teams to understand customer, business, and technical requirements to propose network designs or modifications to architecture;participatesin architecture reviews to ensure designs and modifications meet all functional, performance, scale, and compliance requirements.
• Influencestelemetry analytics designs to betteridentifypatterns that reveal errors and unexpected problems;leveragesan understanding of network architectures and infrastructure at scale to develop, measure, track, and improve the quality of telemetry pipelines that support automated monitoring and incident response.
• Develops process or technology solutionsthat proactivelyresolve issues with processes, physical network devices, and/or tooling.
• Makes optimaluse of infrastructure and resources through simple designs and byleveraging

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience
• OR a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience
• OR equivalent experience
• 2+ year(s) of people management experience

English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

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.

• People Management: You lead a team of product experts that solve complex customer technical issues by practicing leadership principles, driving accountability and attracting/ retaining great people.
• Response and Resolution: You manage the customer relationship with regards to Technical Support and act as an escalation point for Support Engineers to remove roadblocks.
• Readiness: You ensure your team has the technical skills required to provide a great customer experience.
• Product/Process Improvement: You ensure your team understands the product feedback cycle and participate in case triage meetings. You identify the right resources to implement automation or tools.
• Business Integration: You establish engagement strategy to promote effective collaboration across other teams and organizations to enable a great customer experience.

Required/Minimum 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#, Java, C++, Go
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• 4+ years of experience with distributed systems, microservices, and container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
• 4+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling (e.g., GitHub, Azure DevOps)
• 4+ years of experience building and maintaining infrastructure platforms and product APIs with a focus on usability, extensibility, scale and performance

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

• Experience leading teams building infrastructure platforms, APIs, or orchestration frameworks
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture, asynchronous workflows, and service mesh technologies
• Familiarity with agent-based systems, workflow engines, or declarative programming models
• Ability to drive clarity in ambiguous, early-stage platform development
• Experience collaborating with product and design to shape abstractions and reference implementations
• Mentorship skills and a track record of fostering technical excellence and inclusive team culture
• Experience in AI/ML infrastructure, inferencing systems, or high-scale platform engineering
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services such as AKS, Azure Functions, and Event Grid, CosmosDb
• Demonstrated experience driving AI usage and adoption in platform or product development, including integrating AI capabilities into services or enabling AI-powered developer experiences

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

• Lead and grow a team of software engineers focused on building scalable, cloud-native inferencing services and orchestration layers.
• Partner with product, research, and platform teams to define requirements and deliver robust, extensible infrastructure platforms and product APIs.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for inferencing control systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Guide the team in designing and implementing distributed systems that support dynamic routing, load balancing, and execution of AI workloads.
• Ensure engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and mentoring, fostering a culture of innovation and inclusion.
• Own the operational health of services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous improvement of reliability metrics.
• Collaborate across CoreAI and Microsoft to align on platform integration, security, and compliance requirements.
• Champion developer experience and usability in SDKs and tooling, enabling seamless integration with agentic and generative AI platforms.

Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 8+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering

OR equivalent experience.

6+ years of demonstrated experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications and infrastructure resolving complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations.

4+ years of Experience with being on-call and driving mitigation for mission critical incidents.

Technical Skills: Demonstrated hands-on experience with expertise in one or more of the following Cloud technologies:

• Core IaaS: Compute (Windows/Linux), Storage, Networking, Kubernetes, High Availability
• Data Platform and Bigdata: Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL on Azure, Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Factory, AI/ML
• Azure PaaS Services: App Services, Azure Functions, Redis Cache, and Event Hub.
• Monitoring technologies: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, Datadog, Confluent and similar technologies.

Growth Mindset: Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

The 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.

Technically Oriented

Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of issues and translates findings into opportunities for improvement and track and drive them as repair items.

Relationship/Experience Management

Required 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 equivalent experience
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging and analytical skills.
• 4+ years of experience in Storage or File-Systems, Distributed Systems, Networking, Operating Systems, and/or Applications at scale.

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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ 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 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management 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 16th, 2025.

• Defines the strategy, designs/develops products and builds & grows the team.
• Brings clarity, creates energy, and drives results – sets the vision, rallies the team behind it, and helps deliver on the projects.
• 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.
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Provides technical leadership for the team as well as partners.
• Drive product roadmap and execution with clarity, including translating abstract problem statement into a high-quality product strategy and design