Solution Engineering: Student Worker Opportunities

Overview

Start Date: February 2026

Type of Employment: Student Worker (20 hours/week)

Duration: 6 months

Are you an insatiably curious, deeply passionate and hands-on cloud technologist?

Are you at your best when working with engineers, architects and technology leaders on fun and hugely impactful technical challenges? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer for commercial customers at Microsoft.

Here, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working on cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

We will be opening several new roles, and candidates should have expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Cloud Infrastructure including Cloud Migration & Modernization
• Data and Analytics
• AI Applications
• Software, Development Tools & AI

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

• You will engage with and reach out to customers with coaching and guidance from others and develop an understanding of current customer context and anticipate next steps as well as drive technical wins with support from peers.
• You will engage other resources, leveraging basic resource knowledge for key areas of technology as needed to overcome technical blockers on assigned technology set.
• You will engage in partner sell-with scenarios, build your awareness of partner technical capacity through observation and review customer interactions to raise competitive information and contribute to the product strategy by soliciting and communication customer feedback.
• You will tailor Microsoft standard messaging to the audience using knowledge of specific Microsoft products and contribute to demonstrations of solutions and present reference architecture to partners or customers for key parts of their technology sets.
• You will build your own awareness of digital transformation sales methodologies and consume and leverage readiness materials to expand your domain knowledge and practice expertise as you promote readiness to internal teams and actively participate as a member of the Microsoft tech community.
• You will embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

• 1 -2 years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1-2 years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1-2 year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience
• You must be legally authorised to work in Germany to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)

In line with our Flexible Work approach, for roles at Microsoft Germany and Austria, we recommend spending at least two days per week in the office or at the customer site. The actual number of days to work from the office or at the customer will be defined in agreement between the employee and their manager.

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.