Top Remote Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

Six-month paid remote communications internship supporting Keeper's Communications and Social Media teams. Tasks include updating the media page, creating social content, planning and executing announcements, writing PR and internal communications, reporting performance data, scheduling content, and general administrative support. Mentored by the Communications Director; designed for students or early-career candidates.

Support the Supply Chain Contract Review Team by reviewing supplier contracts, amendments, SOWs, and legal documents; track contract status and approvals; maintain records; perform research, reporting, and data analysis; prepare correspondence and presentations; support audits and process-improvement projects while handling confidential information.

Collaborate with the founding team to design, prototype, and scale backend and infrastructure for an agentic AI assistant. Implement orchestration logic, API integrations, and LLM-driven workflows; build diagnostics, tests, and monitoring; improve agent reasoning and execution pipelines; participate in product and architecture discussions; document bugs and stabilize the platform for launch-readiness.

Support PR strategy and execution: research influencers/podcasts, coordinate interviews, draft press releases, upload to newswires, and optimize YouTube content using SEO and AI tools.

Entry-level cybersecurity compliance internship providing hands-on exposure to audits, CMMC compliance reporting, risk and security assessments, GRC artifact management (POA&M, SSP), policy and awareness program development, incident response, and managing GRC toolkits. Interns participate in customer meetings, industry activities, and author technical articles while receiving mentorship and on-the-job training.

Support enablement content publishing, tagging, audits, and QA in Seismic; manage Jira workflows and onboarding support; create/update internal docs and FAQs; troubleshoot enablement tools; partner cross-functionally on brand-refresh and onboarding projects; use AI tools to automate and improve enablement workflows.

Provide supervised clinical and case management support for youth experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. Conduct intakes, assessments, referrals, documentation in Civicore/HMIS, co-facilitate groups, deliver 1:1 therapy under supervision, run front desk rotation, and participate in trainings and team meetings while receiving field instruction and clinical supervision.

Remote Project Management Intern supporting planning, coordination, tracking, process improvement, and documentation. Assist with timelines, resource management, team communication, milestone reporting, and identifying efficiency opportunities. Includes monthly in-person development session in Dallas and a ~29-hour workweek with occasional evenings and weekends.

Remote internship supporting communication strategy, content creation, internal communications, media monitoring, and cross-team alignment. Intern will write and edit content, track media trends, assist messaging development, and help implement internal/external communications while working ~29 hours/week and attending a monthly in-person development session in Dallas.

Support the sales team by developing sales strategies, generating and qualifying leads, conducting market research, maintaining sales databases, and preparing sales reports. Remote role with a mandatory monthly in-person internship development session in Dallas; ~29 hours/week.

Support design, development, and maintenance of Nexodus and client websites. Assist with front-end coding, mobile responsiveness, UX optimization, SEO implementation, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration. Requires monthly in-person session in Dallas and ~29 hours/week availability.

Support PR activities including media relations, press release drafting, event planning, social media monitoring and engagement, competitive research, and compiling campaign performance reports. Hybrid remote internship requiring monthly in-person session in Dallas and flexible hours (including nights and weekends).

Support the COO with strategic planning, data analysis, reporting, cross-functional coordination, and process optimization. Assist in preparing operational performance reports and identifying improvements while managing multiple projects in a hybrid remote/monthly in-person internship.

Support marketing strategy and execution for Nexodus and clients: conduct market and competitive research, assist strategy development, help run campaigns, create marketing content, and track/report performance metrics. Remote role with mandatory monthly in-person session in Dallas; ~29 hours/week.

Assist the Reedsy Learning team with community management, outreach to influencers, engaging with students, and promoting courses and events.

Assist Community Managers with outreach strategies, lead generation, and onboarding professionals while optimizing conversion rates and campaign performance.

Assist authors and publishing professionals by offering support, reviewing projects, optimizing user engagement, maintaining FAQs, and suggesting product improvements.

As a Content Marketing Intern, you will assist in executing Reedsy's content strategy, focusing on SEO, content creation, and promotion to acquire leads.

As a Data Science Intern, you'll learn to translate business challenges into statistical problems, analyze large datasets, build machine learning models, and communicate insights effectively.

Part-time remote marketing internship supporting content creation: write and edit blog posts, website copy, emails, and social media; create graphics in Canva; help develop content calendars and campaigns; track content performance; research trends; collaborate on integrated marketing initiatives.

Manage transformation and deployment of cybersecurity applications into Kubernetes-based environments. Coordinate between Application Development and Platform teams to remove blockers, track timelines, align product and delivery roadmaps, and communicate technical progress. Serve as Mission Manager for assigned delivery efforts, foster team mentorship and growth, and support adoption of engineering best practices to deliver scalable mission value.

As a Growth Team SkillBridge Intern, you'll assist with market research, lead generation, proposal management, client engagement, and support sales efforts.

Work with the data team to design, build, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines and data models using Microsoft Fabric, dbt, PySpark, and SQL. Integrate and validate data across layers, optimize performance in Azure, follow GitHub CI/CD workflows, and document data governance while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

12-16 week internship implementing and optimizing GPU/accelerator kernels and custom operators, profiling and improving LLM inference and runtime performance, building benchmarks, fixing regressions, and shipping code to production or open-source AI infra projects.

Paid Fall 2026 public relations internship supporting tech and consumer electronics clients. Interns research media contacts, build media lists, draft press releases and pitches, conduct competitive research, assist on client accounts, pitch media and influencers, and help with new business proposals while reporting to a senior PR mentor.