Erada Program: Solution Engineering Internship Opportunities

Overview

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.

Qualifications

Minimum Qulifications

• Currently pursuing complete a Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field (OR must be recent graduates or recently graduated)
• Qatari nationality
• Legally authorized to work in Qatar (Legally authorized = Has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)
• Fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for technology and customer obsessed
• Displays strong stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners, and customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills

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Responsibilities

Location: Doha

Program start date: January 2026

About: Erada Program is Microsoft's program for Qataris, aiming to accelerate Qatari employability and create market impact through early in career recruitment, and skilling programs..

Program overview: Microsoft Erada Internship is a paid six-month training program that offers globally recognized technical and professional certifications & skills, and on-the-job training to include mentoring, coaching, job shadowing and real-life scenario assignments.

Program Details: The 6 months, full-time program is divided into two key phases (Phase 1 - Onboarding & Skilling, Phase 2 - On The Job Training)

Phase one: Onboarding & Skilling Bootcamp (1 month)

• Onboarding and introduction to Microsoft’s mission, culture, strategy & structure.
• Technical skilling to obtain globally recognized Microsoft technical certifications.
• Professional and soft skilling courses including project management, change management, effective interpersonal skills, creativity and innovation, and time management.

Phase two: On-the-job training (5 months)

• Joining as a Solution Engineer Intern for on-the-job shadowing and training.
• Mentorship and coaching sessions.
• Supporting Microsoft teams in digital transformation projects.
• Advanced technology trainings including AI, Machine Learning & Cloud Computing.

Responsibilities:

• You build awareness of need for product strategy based on customer feedback, and build awareness of need for compete strategies.
• You will consume and leverage readiness materials to expand domain knowledge, and begin connecting with customers and promote internal team readiness.
• You will engage with customer, 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.
• You will develop foundational awareness of working with reference architectures and assist in demonstrations of specific Microsoft products through preparation and execution.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect