Materials Science Engineering INTERN

Overview

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. The Device Analysis Engineering (DAE) team is responsible for solving some of the most challenging materials, reliability, and failure-analysis problems across Microsoft's hardware portfolio, including Surface, Xbox, Cloud Hardware, and emerging technologies. You will work alongside world-class engineers and scientists using advanced analytical capabilities to investigate product reliability issues, develop innovative materials solutions, and influence future product designs. As a Materials Science Intern, you will conduct hands-on research in materials characterization, corrosion science, electrochemistry, and reliability engineering. You will work on high-impact projects involving sustainable packaging materials, corrosion mechanisms, and electronic reliability of advanced hardware systems. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your research experience in an industrial environment, develop expertise in advanced analytical techniques and failure analysis, and gain exposure to the complete product development lifecycle from materials selection through field reliability. The role offers a hybrid work opportunity with a combination of on-site laboratory work and remote collaboration. Materials Science Interns at Microsoft help develop the scientific understanding needed to improve hardware reliability, sustainability, and product quality. Intern projects involve advanced materials characterization, chemical analysis, accelerated reliability testing, root-cause investigations, and predictive modeling. Interns work on real-world engineering challenges while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, product development, manufacturing, supplier quality, and research organizat