Every year, we welcome thousands of university students from every corner of the world to join Microsoft. You bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.   

We’re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Does this sound like you?  

Come build community, explore your passions, and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of university graduates from every corner of the world. Our Mechanical Engineering Interns work on diverse teams, solving real-world problems, while having fun along the way. This is your chance to bring ideas and solutions to life while working on cutting-edge technologies in Xbox, Surface, HoloLens, and the Cloud.

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. Learn more about our cultural attributes.

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. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connection, executive engagement, and memorable events.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Pursuing the following:
  • OR Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ months related technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to conceptualize and design mechanical parts using 3D CAD Software.
• 3 months – 1 year experience of a subset of classes or experience in the following areas:
  • System Modeling
  • Mechanical Engineering Design
  • Prototyping
  • 3D printing
  • Mechatronics

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

The salary for this internship in the state of Colorado is $7,890 per month.

Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. US-based interns gain access to healthcare benefits and software discounts.

Mechanical Engineering Interns at Microsoft design and manufacture some of the most popular devices in the world for personal computing and cloud hardware. We have internships in a wide range of areas including system integration, precision design, industrial design, user experience, heat transfer, mechanisms, manufacturing, and product testing. Our teams incubate advanced technologies and designs for application to a broad range of consumer electronics devices.  We’re looking for the best and brightest to join us in designing for the future!

• Assists in the creation of robust, scalable, secure, and extensible designs and verification plans for the hardware engineering aspects of a well-defined feature or product extension (e.g., a product refresh or line extension).
• Assists in the development of basic prototype hardware components for use in development, testing, or validation of new product features. Assists in evaluating prototypes for the purpose of innovating, optimizing and maturing designs.
• Collaborates and assists in project implementation.
• Documents essential details and follows established procedures.
• You will develop innovative hardware and leading-edge technologies.
• You will collaborate with multiple disciplines.