Penetration Testing: Internship Opportunities

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 Penetration Testing Intern, under supervision, you will identify problems and vulnerabilities through application of engineering to dynamically penetrate software, hardware or human systems. You will work on efforts that results in security bug discovery, exploitation and suggested security controls and mitigations in response to security flaws. You will develop and implement pen testing strategies and apply your expertise to engineer solutions. You will help influence mitigations for current and future products and solutions.

As an intern at Microsoft, you’re stepping into a world of real impact from day one. You’ll collaborate with global teams on meaningful projects, explore cutting-edge technologies like AI, and kick start your career while doing it. With a strong focus on learning and development, this is your opportunity to grow your skills, build community, and shape your future—all while being supported every step of the way. 

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

• Identifies security vulnerabilities within specialty/area or responsibility.
• Able to come up to speed on new targets with the help of others.
• Leverages known information channels to gain context.
• Corroborates guidance against real world observations, determines and understands scope of potential impact and identifies variance or instances of known issues.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must be enrolled in a full time bachelor's or masters program in area relevant for the role during the academic term immediately before their internship. 
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, and/or Security+ certification
  
  

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 (September - April)

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