Top Remote Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

The Systems Engineering Intern will assist with designing and developing system solutions, gathering requirements, defining specifications, integrating and testing system components, troubleshooting technical issues, and documenting engineering activities. The intern will collaborate with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams while gaining hands-on experience in system design, integration, testing, modeling, and simulation within Honeywell Aerospace.

Supports the design and development of electrical systems and components, conducts testing and performance analysis, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and gains practical experience with industry-standard tools, technologies, electrical codes, and standards. The intern receives mentorship while contributing to aerospace engineering projects.

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.

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

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.

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.

Supports finance and accounting operations involving collections, cash application, payment inquiries, accounts receivable reconciliation, reporting, month-end close, audits, and process improvement. The intern collaborates with cross-functional teams, responds to billing-related Zendesk tickets, investigates payment issues, and helps improve order-to-cash processes. This is a temporary, part-time role of approximately 30 hours per week for a student or recent graduate.

Supports MAPEI’s underground construction product line through customer-site visits, technical assistance, training, presentations, field trials, product demonstrations, competitive analysis, laboratory testing, and technical documentation. Collaborates with technical, commercial, laboratory, factory, and field teams in a rotational full-time summer internship. The role offers practical experience in office, laboratory, factory, and construction-site environments, with potential post-graduation opportunities in technical support or commercial technical sales.

Supports MAPEI’s underground construction product line through customer-site visits, technical assistance, training, field trials, product demonstrations, laboratory testing, competitive analysis, technical sales support, and project documentation. The intern rotates through office, laboratory, factory, and field environments while collaborating with technical, commercial, laboratory, and field teams.

Capture, record, edit, and produce podcasts, interviews, instructional videos, and other educational media for coaching, officiating, and player development programs. Operate cameras, microphones, lighting, and audio equipment; create long-form content, short clips, graphics, captions, and supplemental resources. Organize media assets, assist with program administration, and support content production for hockey education initiatives.

Paid, full-time summer interns support product management, business operations, strategic projects, data analysis, process documentation, reporting, dashboards, presentations, stakeholder collaboration, and implementation initiatives. Interns develop analytical, project management, communication, and business problem-solving skills while working in a hybrid schedule near assigned offices.

Conduct time studies, workflow analysis, process mapping, and data analysis to improve warehouse efficiency, labor utilization, safety, ergonomics, quality, and costs. Collaborate with operations teams on process changes and continuous improvement projects. Track product performance, conduct market and competitive research, develop recommendations, and communicate findings through reports and presentations.

Analyzes logistics performance metrics, develops dashboards and reports, identifies trends and bottlenecks, and provides actionable insights to improve delivery performance and operational efficiency across the supply chain.

Summer internship providing hands-on exposure to construction insurance and surety through projects with Insurance, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, and Claims professionals. Interns learn brokerage operations, receive mentorship, develop professional skills, and complete a capstone presentation. The program is in-office, does not provide relocation or housing assistance, and requires authorization to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.

Participate in a 10-week summer internship supporting a core commercial insurance function such as claims, underwriting, audit, IT, marketing, or HR. Interns receive hands-on training, mentorship, professional development, networking opportunities, and complete a final Capstone presentation.

Intern will build Zepho's social media presence, create content, manage influencer relationships, and track performance metrics. This role offers potential for full-time conversion.

MBA interns analyze corporate performance, business models, cost reduction, revenue growth, and profitability opportunities in high-impact client situations. They research industry trends, synthesize qualitative and quantitative data, conduct research and client interviews, develop fact-based strategic recommendations, create presentation materials, and guide analysts as needed. The role involves collaborative client work, extensive travel, and occasional work outside normal business hours.

Work as a Python development intern building applications and APIs, processing and analyzing data, working with databases and data pipelines, contributing to system architecture, writing clean documented code, and collaborating with the team. Strong emphasis on backend development, SQL, ORMs, and REST API design with potential conversion to full-time.

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

Supports community pharmacy operations while gaining hands-on experience in patient care. Processes prescription and over-the-counter orders, helps patients navigate therapies, maintains confidentiality under HIPAA and PHI guidelines, stocks merchandise and supplies, manages inventory, maintains the pharmacy area, and participates in customer outreach and community events.

Conduct novel research in Protocol Learning, focusing on decentralized large-model training and inference across consumer devices. Develop foundational methods addressing communication efficiency, fault tolerance, heterogeneous compute, and malicious participants, with the goal of publishing in tier-1 machine learning venues. Interns own a research problem, leverage significant compute, and receive mentorship from senior scientists during a six-month PhD internship.

Project-based marketing internship creating a marketing strategy for JMI's educational content. Interns work within a six-person marketing team, are matched with volunteer mentors, and will produce strategic media to promote content and membership. Flexible project scope to meet spring internship course requirements.

Support JMI's marketing team by creating customer profiles, helping develop targeting strategies for other interns, and completing a flexible, course-aligned market research project under mentor guidance.