Top Internships in San Luis Obispo, CA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Assist in managing fresh citrus production lines, requiring both hands-on tasks and communication with team members, while working effectively independently or in a team.

Support execution of large-scale B2B outbound and demand-generation campaigns: build outreach sequences, manage outreach tools, enrich and QA data, maintain outbound infrastructure, coordinate webinar and content syndication operations, research target accounts/ICPs, assist reporting, and apply AI tools to automate workflows.

Part-time remote internship conducting competitive and labor-market research for skilled trades and infrastructure training, synthesizing insights using AI-assisted methods, pricing analysis, and delivering written and verbal reports to inform product and market strategy.

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.

As an Intern, you will assist with day-to-day tasks, participate in meetings, support departmental operations, and help with SAP implementation projects.

Six-month People Operations (HR) internship supporting onboarding, payroll audits, benefits enrollments, compliance documentation, HRIS maintenance (e.g., Rippling), employer branding, and cross-functional HR/Finance projects. Gain hands-on experience with employee lifecycle, data accuracy, and HR systems while assisting state reporting and agency liaison work.

Work on grid automation and software projects, enhancing existing solutions and developing new features. Apply electrical engineering and AI/ML techniques to solve power-system challenges, contribute to pilot projects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance grid technology.

As a Growth Intern at N1, you'll help drive growth initiatives, conduct market research, analyze competitors, and develop internal tools.

As a Research Intern at N1, contribute to market/product or technical research in blockchain, developing analytical skills.

Support a tax team by preparing work papers and tax returns, researching complex tax issues, applying tax law and IRS guidance, and communicating findings to seniors and managers. Participate in training, intern events, and projects while pursuing CPA education requirements. Maintain accuracy, professional standards, and support paperless, sustainable workplace practices.

This internship under the SkillBridge Program involves supporting threat intelligence, technical analysis, and intelligence editing, focusing on cybersecurity and associated risks.

The intern will collaborate with statisticians to conduct analysis using AI and machine learning techniques, implementing models and analyzing clinical data.

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.