Top Remote Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Support CEO and leadership on market intelligence, financial modelling, go-to-market strategy, partnerships and PMO. Run competitor analysis, size segments, build investor-ready business plans, craft value propositions and support partner negotiations while tracking cross-functional OKRs and dashboards.

Summer internship to build production-facing realtime intelligence for a mobile app that optimizes campus quest participation. Design context-aware quest logic, detect stalls/drop-offs, suggest micro-actions, instrument evaluation loops, and ship components on top of existing realtime systems to improve behavioral outcomes like IRL quest completion and retention.

Work on front-end and back-end web projects: create and redesign websites, build sitemaps and wireframes, collaborate with teams, and focus on UI/UX and performant back-end functionality.

Part-time unpaid internship supporting sales and marketing: prospecting and cold calling, building and managing campaign pipelines, analyzing marketing systems, defining ICPs, and executing multi-channel outreach while developing campaign assets and presentation skills.

Part-time internship supporting CRM architecture, data integrity, process documentation, operational audits, and KPI dashboarding. Build SOPs, centralize lead/project data, identify workflow bottlenecks, and deliver reporting to leadership to scale and improve operational processes.

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 retail pharmacy operations by performing technician-level tasks, assisting with prescription processing and inventory, participating in patient counseling and clinical services under pharmacist supervision, processing insurance claims, completing training toward licensure, traveling to assigned stores and events, and ensuring legal and corporate compliance.

Supports specific stop loss claim audits by reviewing medical documentation, validating records, analyzing medical and pharmaceutical claims data, identifying discrepancies and overpayments, and preparing audit reports. The intern uses Microsoft Office tools, maintains PHI confidentiality, communicates findings, and assists with process improvement initiatives. This is a remote, flexible internship of approximately 20 hours per week.

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.

Supports core HR functions including HR operations, onboarding, employee experience, HRIS administration, people analytics, compliance, recruiting, employee relations, and special projects. Maintains personnel records, assists with benefits and leave administration, coordinates interviews, prepares reports and dashboards, supports engagement initiatives, and contributes to process improvement, AI, and automation projects.

Work directly with founders to research AI SaaS markets, identify high-fit accounts and buyers, prepare personalized outbound, maintain CRM discipline, track replies/objections, run GTM experiments, and support founder-led sales to create real customer conversations.

Supports financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, industry analysis, business planning, value proposition development, and process improvement. The intern collaborates with finance teams, product line leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders while gaining exposure to business and finance functions.

Supports offering strategy and business growth by analyzing market trends, customer feedback, and competitors; assisting with product positioning, pricing, and go-to-market plans; and collaborating on launches and performance monitoring. The intern gains experience in offering management while working cross-functionally with experienced professionals.

Supports offering and product management initiatives by analyzing market trends, customer feedback, and competitive landscapes. Assists with product positioning, pricing strategies, go-to-market planning, cross-functional launches, and performance monitoring. The internship provides hands-on experience in offering strategy and business growth while collaborating with experienced professionals.

Supports financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, industry analysis, value proposition development, business planning, and process improvement. Collaborates with finance teams and product line leaders while gaining exposure to business and finance functions.

Supports NASA aeronautics flight-test activities by collecting and labeling radar and vision data, evaluating aircraft and wildlife detection and tracking algorithms, assisting distributed testing software development, and documenting procedures, experiments, and findings. The part-time remote internship runs September through December at 5–10 hours per week and supports onsite NASA Langley Research Center activities.

Manage multiple Fizz-branded Instagram accounts by sourcing, creating, and curating trend-aligned content. Build posting calendars, maintain consistent publishing cadence, monitor performance, adjust content strategy, and make independent content decisions. Collaborate with the Growth team, attend meetings, and provide updates on account performance. This is a remote, paid internship requiring 15–20 hours weekly, beginning with a one-month commitment and potential extension.