Top Internships in San Diego, CA

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.

Assists audit engagements for clients across industries by understanding business and accounting systems, assessing risks and internal controls, performing substantive and control testing, resolving reporting issues, and drafting financial statements. Interns work across multiple team engagements while developing knowledge of audit methodologies, GAAP, and GAAS.

Finance intern supporting accounting and finance operations, including account reconciliations, journal entries, daily processing, research, data collection, reporting, analysis, documentation, and special projects. The role collaborates with finance teams, assists with internal management reports, attends meetings, and provides administrative support while developing experience in a corporate financial services environment.

Paid technology internship providing exposure to enterprise systems, data management, infrastructure, digital technologies, security, networking, web technologies, and business applications. Interns may contribute across areas including enterprise architecture, corporate systems, quality and vendor management, retirement services, wealth management, and employee benefits. The role seeks students with technical coursework, analytical ability, communication skills, collaboration, and eagerness to learn.

Accounting intern supporting the financial reporting division by preparing accounting entries, financial reports, analytical reports, and work papers. The role involves collaborating with functional departments to validate financial information, documenting reporting activities, and contributing to team objectives. Candidates should be pursuing an accounting degree and be proficient in Excel and Microsoft Office. Experience with Power BI, Tableau, and AI is preferred.

Supports instructional design and development projects by creating, revising, managing, and evaluating online course content. Collaborates with instructional designers, media specialists, and producers to develop engaging learning solutions aligned with outcomes, adult learning principles, accessibility standards, and institutional design requirements. The intern contributes to content creation, interactive course development, stakeholder collaboration, and curriculum deliverables while gaining hands-on experience in instructional design.

Supports Veeam’s Voice of the Customer and customer experience programs through survey analysis, qualitative feedback review, trend identification, insight synthesis, action planning, documentation, and stakeholder-ready presentations. The intern will consolidate customer feedback, maintain project trackers, support cross-functional coordination, and connect customer insights to business priorities and improvement opportunities.

Develop and test cloud-native backup and disaster recovery features for Kasten K10. Create design documents, conduct design reviews, prepare test plans, and build CI/CD testing pipelines. The internship emphasizes scalable, multithreaded and concurrent systems, distributed systems, client-server architectures, code quality, testing, and automation, with potential work involving Go, databases, cloud storage, containers, orchestration platforms, and open source.

Supports enterprise data management and analytics initiatives through SQL and ETL development, data quality monitoring, metadata and master data management, data integration, dataset analysis, and governance practices. Collaborates with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, troubleshoots data integrity issues, develops dashboards and insights, and presents project outcomes. The internship is hybrid in Columbus, Johnston, or Boston and requires permanent U.S. work authorization.

Ten-week hybrid summer internship supporting data and analytics initiatives across banking teams. Interns will gather requirements, assemble and explore structured and unstructured data, perform analysis, identify trends, create insights and dashboards, collaborate with business partners, communicate findings, and present a capstone project. Assignments may include advanced analytics, reporting, visualization, data mining, automation, root-cause analysis, cohort analysis, and model development.

Ten-week software engineering internship involving application development, mobile app enhancement, API and microservices development, software architecture, documentation, testing, quality improvements, and AI-assisted development. Interns work in an agile environment, receive mentorship and professional development, and may be considered for a full-time technology development program after graduation.

Participate in data science projects involving data preparation, exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, machine learning, text mining, and structured or unstructured data analysis. Interns collaborate with business partners, refine models using stakeholder feedback, develop insights and dashboards, and present recommendations. The 10-week hybrid program includes host-team assignments and cross-functional projects across banking data and analytics.

Ten-week technology risk internship supporting data aggregation, risk analysis, dashboards, control testing, risk assessments, evidence collection, remediation recommendations, and reporting automation. Interns will analyze ServiceNow, GRC, incident, and control data; identify emerging risk trends; assist with documentation and stakeholder coordination; and apply AI prompt engineering to synthesize datasets. The program includes mentorship, leadership exposure, professional development, and potential conversion to a full-time technology and security development program.

Graduate data analytics interns support data gathering, cleaning, exploration, analysis, reporting, dashboarding, visualization, and business insight initiatives. They collaborate with mentors and cross-functional teams, investigate trends, communicate findings to stakeholders, refine analytical approaches, and present project outcomes. The 10-week hybrid program is based in Columbus, Johnston, or Boston.

Graduate interns support data management and analytics initiatives through SQL development, ETL, data quality monitoring, metadata and governance practices, data integration, dataset analysis, and dashboarding. They collaborate with host teams and cross-functional business partners, troubleshoot data integrity issues, refine solutions, and present project outcomes. The 10-week hybrid program requires work from Columbus, Johnston, or Boston headquarters.

Participate in a 10-week business insights internship supporting data and analytics initiatives. Analyze customer and operational data, measure product and service performance, identify business opportunities, develop dashboards, and translate findings into strategic recommendations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, contribute to real-world projects, and present insights to business leaders. Work is based at a Citizens headquarters in Columbus, Johnston, or Boston.

Graduate data science interns will support statistical modeling, machine learning, NLP, computer vision, advanced analytics, and business data initiatives. Responsibilities include preparing and analyzing structured and unstructured data, conducting exploratory analysis and hypothesis testing, developing and validating models, applying text mining and quantitative methods, incorporating stakeholder feedback, and presenting recommendations. Interns will collaborate with mentors, business partners, and cross-functional teams during a 10-week hybrid program.

Supports enterprise network engineering initiatives through connectivity maintenance, network monitoring, troubleshooting, security technology optimization, and collaboration with cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, vendor, and operations teams. Gains exposure to automation, orchestration, infrastructure as code, service catalogs, observability, and cloud services through a 10-week internship with mentorship and professional development.

This 10-week internship supports data and analytics initiatives across banking teams. Responsibilities include analyzing customer and business performance data, researching behavior, measuring product impact, identifying improvement opportunities, developing dashboards, and presenting strategic recommendations. Interns collaborate with stakeholders, validate findings, contribute to cross-functional projects, and translate analytical insights for business leaders. The role requires enrollment in a quantitative bachelor’s program, a minimum 3.0 GPA, dataset experience, and permanent U.S. work authorization.

Cloud Engineer Interns will support cloud solution design, architecture, implementation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and security. They will collaborate with software engineering and cybersecurity teams, provide technical support, and identify performance improvements. The 10-week program includes mentorship, professional development, networking, and community service activities, with potential conversion to a full-time technology development program after graduation.

Supports cybersecurity, security engineering, IAM, resilience, risk management, control reviews, audits, security monitoring, incident readiness, access governance, documentation, and regulatory research. The 10-week internship provides hands-on exposure to enterprise security architecture, authentication initiatives, cybersecurity frameworks, business continuity, and security operations while developing collaboration, reporting, and project-management skills.

Data Engineer Interns will gain hands-on experience building batch and real-time data pipelines using AWS, Spark, Java, Python, and SQL. They will learn data modeling, ETL/ELT, distributed systems, streaming technologies, and AI platforms, including LLM, RAG, vector database, and agentic AI architectures. Interns will collaborate with data engineers, contribute to secure data and AI solutions, and participate in mentorship and professional development activities.

Maintain and update Salesforce participant-tracking systems, build program outcome reports, clean and organize data, and support Salesforce workflow development. The intern will learn Salesforce administration, reporting, and process design while supporting nonprofit program reporting. This is a fully remote, unpaid three-month internship requiring 5–10 hours per week, with North Carolina residency preferred and mentorship provided.

Create and structure AI literacy curriculum, research instructional frameworks, develop course materials and assessments, publish content through LearnPress, and refine lessons using participant feedback. The intern will work remotely with the Founder and Web Manager Intern for 5–10 hours weekly over three months. No prior curriculum design experience is required; reliability, curiosity, and authorization to volunteer in the United States are required.

Create and publish social media content across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok; engage with community comments and messages; track performance using Adobe Express analytics powered by Metricool; prepare simple reports; and support campaign and content-series planning. This is a fully remote, unpaid three-month internship requiring 5–10 hours weekly, with mentorship and portfolio-building opportunities.