Software Engineering INTERN
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Peoria County, IL - USA
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Job Summary
Microsoft Specialized Clouds (MSC) AI Innovation is an AI-first team that incubates builds and accelerates solutions aligned with Microsofts business priorities for sovereign and regulated cloud environments. We specialize in 0 to 1 work taking ideas from concept to MVP and evolving them into scalable production-ready solutions.
As a Software Engineer Intern in the MSC IL AI Innovation team you will contribute to the design development testing and delivery of AI-powered features and services for Microsoft Specialized Clouds organization. You will work with mentors and engineering team members to build reliable secure and responsible software while learning modern AI engineering practices across prompts retrieval agents evaluation observability and cloud-native development.
This internship is designed for entrepreneurial creative and highly motivated students who are passionate about building AI-native products taking ownership in ambiguous 0 to 1 environments and using AI throughout the engineering lifecycle to solve complex high-impact problems in sovereign and regulated cloud environments.
Responsibilities
Develop test debug andmaintainsoftware components for AI-powered products services or internal tools.
Contribute production-quality codethat is maintainable secure performant and aligned with team standards.
Partner with mentors engineers product managers and stakeholders to understand user requirements and translate them into engineering tasks.
Contribute to AI features such as agents tool/API integrations prompt flowsretrievalworkflows evaluation harnesses and monitoring capabilities.
Help define and run tests evaluations and quality checks for AI behavior including accuracy relevancegroundedness and reliability.
Investigate issues using logs traces test results and debugging tools and incorporate feedback into improvedsolutions.
Learn and apply engineering best practices across code quality security responsible AI CI/CD documentation andobservability.
Document work clearly and share implementation details with team members to support continuity and knowledgesharing.
Collaborate effectively with team members in a dynamic ambiguous environment; adapt quickly across technologies stacks and engineering tasks; proactivelyseekand incorporate feedback; and contribute to shared goals while building technical depth.
Qualifications
Required qualifications
Currently pursuing an . or M.A. degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or a related technical field with at least3semestersremaining
Programming experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Python C# Java JavaScript/TypeScript C orsimilar.
Understanding ofcore computer science fundamentals including data structures algorithms software design and debugging.
Ability to communicate clearly collaborate effectively adapt across technologies and engineering tasks and learn quickly in a team environment.
Preferred qualifications
Currently pursuing a Doctorate in Computer Science Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or a related technical field with at least one semester/termremainingafter the internship.
1yearof programming experience.
6 months of experience delivering projects in teams through coursework internships open-source work research or personal projects.
1yearof experience developing and applying data structures and algorithms.
Familiarity with AI machine learning generative AI LLMs agents retrieval-augmented generation prompt engineering or evaluationmethods.
Basic familiarity with cloud platforms REST APIs SDKs CI/CD telemetry orobservability.
Interest in responsible AI security reliability and building software for regulated or sovereign cloudenvironments.
Demonstrated entrepreneurial mindset creativity initiative ownership and persistence inidentifyingmeaningful problems exploring unconventional solutions and turning ambiguous ideas into tangible outcomes in 0 to 1 product spaces.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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