Brussels, Belgium Role overview
About this role
Location: Zaventem, Belgium
Duration: 6-month full-time paid internship
Start Date: January 2027
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 Solution Engineer Intern, you will engage with customers, with coaching from others. You will have the opportunity to shadow customer stakeholder interactions and research customer context to gain and understanding and build product expertise. You will contribute to technical wins, or portions of technical wins, with support from peers through preparation and delivery of one-way presentations.
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.
Responsibilities
- Build awareness of need for product strategy based on customer feedback, and build awareness of need for compete strategies.
- Consume and leverage readiness materials to expand domain knowledge, and begin connecting with customers and promote internal team readiness.
- Engage with customers, with coaching from others. You will shadow in customer stakeholder interactions and research customer context to gain understanding and build product expertise. You will develop awareness of available resources by familiarizing yourself with the community and engaging others to gain product knowledge.
- Develop foundational awareness of working with reference architectures and assist in demonstrations of specific Microsoft products through preparation and execution.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field
- You must be legally authorised to work in Belgium at the time of application and for the duration of this paid internship. (Legally authorised = holder of Belgian, EU/EEA or Swiss citizenship, or already in possession of a valid visa and/or work permit permitting work in Belgium.)
- Fluency in English is required, together with fluency in either French or Dutch.
Preferred Qualifications:
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 or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
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.