Top Remote Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

The Phishing Analyst-SkillBridge Intern will assist in threat detection and analysis, focusing on phishing attempts. Responsibilities include identifying and mitigating threats using AI and collaborating with teams to enhance cybersecurity measures.

Part-time remote legal internship supporting regulatory and marketing compliance. Conduct FDA/FTC and advertising legal research, review marketing materials, draft memos, assist with contract lifecycle and corporate records, and support policy and training development.

Remote internship supporting tax research, testing, and documentation. Duties include researching tax form changes, interpreting tax code updates, writing requirements for programmers, designing and executing test cases, validating tax calculations, and contributing to release notes and customer guidance while learning tax software and tools.

Manage day-to-day operations for two YouTube podcast channels: review 3–4 edited videos weekly, curate IG/TikTok clips, maintain podcast/YouTube schedule, write podcast ads, create mash-up episodes, and support PR/marketing projects and freelance editing coordination.

This intern role in Federal Security Operations focuses on cybersecurity, project tracking, and maintaining relationships with customer stakeholders in a mission-driven environment.

Graduate research interns will own end-to-end projects to build customer world models and proactive intelligence: developing representation learning, foundation model, RL/agentic methods, evaluation frameworks, and shipping research into production to improve customer decision-making.

This internship role focuses on SRE skills, requiring collaboration and problem-solving in dynamic environments for Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange team.

Graduate research interns will own end-to-end projects developing customer world models and proactive intelligence. Work spans representation learning, foundation models, reinforcement learning, agentic decision systems, and evaluation. Tasks include designing methods, running experiments, publishing findings, and potentially shipping models into production to impact customer-facing products.

As a Detection Engineer Intern, you will analyze telemetry, research coverage opportunities, improve workflows, and communicate threat findings effectively.

Support planning, executing, and optimizing paid digital acquisition campaigns. Coordinate content and landing pages, run A/B tests, analyze marketing data, create performance reports, and recommend optimizations to improve ROAS.

Manage three branded Reddit accounts: post 2–3 times per week per brand, engage with users and comments per brand guidelines, craft brand-specific Reddit strategies, and coordinate with an outside contractor to manage meetings and goals.

Part-time remote internship supporting the Email Automation team: transfer and code email copy into templates, maintain templates, perform QA, run semi-weekly A/B tests and data tracking, and assist with organizational and cross-functional email operations.

Assist in monitoring insider risks, support data protection, investigate security alerts, and maintain operational governance in a security team.

Support website content editing, formatting, and publishing. Update job listings and resources, optimize content for SEO and accessibility, test site functionality, integrate multimedia, and collaborate with marketing to maintain brand voice and improve usability.

Support creation and distribution of media literacy educational materials. Research topics, curate news, and produce short-form video and social content to drive engagement across social media and internal community spaces.

Assist on website design projects for regional and national clients, create graphics and layout mockups, support design consistency and documentation, learn WCAG 2.2 accessibility practices, collaborate with senior web developer and design lead, and gain WordPress workflow exposure to produce portfolio-ready work.

The Generalist Intern will optimize internal tools, conduct customer research, support go-to-market efforts, provide product insights, and write clear documentation. This remote position targets recent grads or students.

The Digital Media Intern will collaborate with the Marketing Director, contribute to design concepts, and support branding and marketing initiatives.

As a Software Engineering Intern, you will contribute to building features for user-facing products, APIs, and scalable services for machine learning. Responsibilities include crafting code, designing data pipelines, implementing tools, and enhancing technical documentation.

Support full-cycle technical recruiting by managing ATS (JazzHR), screening resumes, sourcing candidates, coordinating interviews across time zones, tracking recruiting metrics, and communicating with candidates and recruiters. Gain hands-on recruiting operations experience and mentorship from Talent Acquisition professionals.

Summer internship working on transformer-based models to automate scoring of Spanish constructed responses. Collaborate with psychometricians and data scientists to design experiments, implement models in Python, evaluate with industry metrics (QWK, accuracy, SMD), and document and present findings.

Support development team by creating pitch decks, writing loglines and treatments, researching concepts and talent, sourcing imagery and footage, contributing ideas, and coordinating materials and timelines.

Support BIM/VDC workflows from design through project completion: facilitate 2D/3D coordination, model missing content, perform 4D/5D schedule and cost analyses, run clash detection and assist conflict resolution, and produce material quantity take-offs for estimating.

Support outbound prospecting, market research, CRM tracking, product demos, and cross-team coordination. Draft MoMs, follow-ups, proposals, and content while learning B2B SaaS and AI.

Work on real-world web applications across frontend and backend. Use modern frontend frameworks (React/Angular/Vue) and backend tech (Node.js, Python, Java, PHP). Integrate RESTful APIs with databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL), debug, test, optimize performance, and collaborate with designers and product teams while gaining hands-on mentorship.