Top Internships in Santa Cruz, 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.

As a Customer Experience Intern, you will streamline processes, execute deliverables, and collaborate across teams to enhance the department's success.

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.

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 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 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.

Paid Fall 2026 public relations internship supporting tech and consumer electronics clients. Interns research media contacts, build media lists, draft press releases and pitches, conduct competitive research, assist on client accounts, pitch media and influencers, and help with new business proposals while reporting to a senior PR mentor.

Support clinical operations by preparing and analyzing KPIs, assisting the Chief of Staff with daily operations, forecasting performance guarantee impacts, participating in ad-hoc projects, and collaborating on reporting to improve clinical outcomes and cost savings.

Paid four-week Appian internship with instructor-led training and hands-on Appian development. Shadow consultants, build applications, test and integrate solutions, produce documentation, participate in Agile teams, and develop consulting and communication skills. Top performers may receive full-time offers.

As a GTM Associate, you'll produce social media content, create videos, support email marketing, develop blog posts, engage with the community, and report on performance metrics, all while working in a remote startup environment.

Join an R&D team to develop image-processing and computer-vision algorithms for 2D/3D scene segmentation, design experiments to detect long-tail model failures, and explore deep learning models and active learning methods to improve autonomous robotic vision systems.

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.

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.

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.

Support recruiting, onboarding, employee engagement, workforce administration, and HR operations for a federal consulting firm. Source and screen candidates, coordinate interviews and onboarding, maintain ATS and HR records, assist with reporting, documentation, and special HR projects in a remote, part-time internship.

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.

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

The AI Researcher Intern will assist in AI-related research including architecture design, memory systems, and multi-agent collaboration.

As a Marketing Design Intern, you'll create visual content and videos, maintain brand consistency, and collaborate with the marketing team to simplify complex security concepts.