Top Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Support execution of B2B marketing programs and corporate events. Coordinate event logistics, partner marketing activities, campaign project management, tracking and reporting, and use AI tools to improve workflows and documentation.

Support design, validation, and characterization of magnetic components for medium-voltage power converters. Perform lab measurements, build prototypes, run electromagnetic simulations, analyze EMI/EMC, and document results while collaborating with power electronics and layout teams.

Support the Business Development team by researching and profiling target accounts, maintaining CRM and pipeline data, tracking market developments, preparing account briefings and meeting materials, and translating technical content into customer-facing collateral for energy and data center customers.

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.

PhD-level 24-week internship to research Gaussian Splatting for streaming: explore compression strategies and datasets, quantify size/time/quality trade-offs, reduce training/encoding time, and build a proof-of-concept GS-based renderer.

Early-stage PhD intern to research and improve scalability, latency, and quality of Netflix Live streaming. Design and evaluate adaptive streaming algorithms, collaborate cross-functionally (CDN, encoding, data science, UI), run controlled experiments, and contribute to system architecture. Requires background in computer networking, network measurement, or encoding technologies; 12-week full-time summer placement with possible extended collaboration.

As a Detection Engineer Intern, you will analyze telemetry, research coverage opportunities, improve workflows, and communicate threat findings effectively.

As an intern, you'll participate in electrical subsystem design, circuit analysis, component sourcing, testing prototypes, and collaborating with engineering teams.

As a Power Electronics Intern, you'll support the design and development of power conversion systems and collaborate with experienced engineers on hardware development, testing, and validation of medium-voltage power electronics systems.

Support faculty development and instructional quality for ERAU Worldwide by reviewing courses, observing teaching, designing and delivering professional learning, ensuring adherence to best practices and contractual standards, and participating in special projects to improve course management and student success.

Support analysis of Chinese government information operations by curating and labeling Mandarin- and English-language open-source data, maintaining and augmenting data feeds, identifying new data sources, and collaborating with data scientists to produce actionable insights for US government clients.

Support field projects across health, agriculture, and education in Sub-Saharan Africa: engage with ministries and donors, build data capture and analysis solutions, train AI for nutrient detection using handheld spectrometers, and design/run national-scale STEM programs and contests. Work will be chosen based on interests and abilities.

Design, implement, and evaluate applied research projects to improve alignment, safety, and evaluation of LLM-based guardrails. Work on experiments (e.g., synthetic data quality metrics, explanations for blocked content), deliver results with mentor guidance, and present findings to the team to shape product capabilities.

Create standard design guidelines and graphic assets to support the marketing team and fellow interns. Work is project-based, guided by a volunteer mentor, and flexible to meet course internship requirements.

Create an introductory Development Economics course (focus on economic history and public institutions) using a chosen educational medium; work with a volunteer mentor and JMI staff to meet internship course requirements.