Software Engineer: Frontend Intern Opportunities for University Students, Redmond

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.    

As a Software Engineering Intern focused on frontend, you will work with teammates to Join us to design and ship responsive, accessible, enterprise‑grade user interfaces that power customer‑facing products and platforms used at global scale. You will work to build delightful UI, integrate with services, and learn how product experiences are measured, iterated, and supported in Live Site Operations. You’ll partner closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver features that are usable, performant, and secure—gaining hands‑on exposure to services integration and modern engineering practices. 

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.  

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.  

Please note this application is only for internships based in our Redmond, Washington office. For internships in other offices in the United States, please see our Careers site. 

Required Qualifications 

• Enrolled in a full time bachelor's or master’s program 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.
• 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.   

• Demonstrated interest in frontend work. 

• Coursework or projects in frontend engineering using TypeScript/JavaScript and React; understanding of web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, HTTP). 

• Experience building customer‑facing UI or enterprise product features (course project, hackathon, open‑source, prior internship). 

• Exposure to services integration (REST/GraphQL), state management, testing frameworks, and CI/CD. 

• Interest in Live Site Operations and observability (logs, metrics, dashboards) and iterating on product experience using telemetry/experiments. 

• Familiarity with accessibility and design systems concepts; eagerness to learn and collaborate in a team environment. 

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.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-intern-pay

Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis throughout the academic calendar (August-April).

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

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for web/mobile applications.  

• 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.