Solution Engineering: Internship Opportunities

**Overview** **Start Date: February August 2026** **Type of Employment: 60% Paid Internship ** **Duration: 6 months** Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns and Student Workers from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential-and excitement for the journey ahead. As a Solution Engineer Student Worker, you will engage with and guide customers toward technical decisions to purchase and use Microsoft technology. You will leverage sales strategy to address customer digital transformation and align technology to customer business needs. You will understand customer needs, collects customer feedback, and provides strategic input to customers. You will act as an orchestration point for technical resources and works to resolve blockers in order to achieve solution implementations. At Microsoft, Student Workers 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. 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. **Responsibilities** - Develops understanding of current customer context and anticipates next steps. Uses product expertise to build credibility with customers. - Reviews customer interactions and raises competitive information to account teams to contribute to development and landing of compete strategies. - Contributes to product strategy by soliciting and communicating customer feedback. - Tailors Microsoft standard messaging to audience using knowledge of specific Microsoft products. - Contributes to demonstrations (e.g., proof of concept \[POC\] sessions) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through initial engagements and coaching from senior colleagues. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove product capabilities and integration into customer environment. - Consumes and leverages readiness materials to expand domain knowledge and practices expertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications** - Currently pursuing a Bachelor's , Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and must be in the final year of study - Must be available to do an internship in February 2026 until August Must be legally authorized to work in Switzerland? (Legally authorized = Has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit) - Fluency in English **Preferred Qualifications** - 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience. - Passion for technology and customer obsessed. - Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.- - Strong Desire and business acumen for consultative solution selling. - Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills 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. 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. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. \#EiP \#MCAPSEiP 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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