Top Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

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

As a GenAI Engineering Intern, you will develop proof-of-concept GenAI solutions for internal workflows, collaborating with internal stakeholders and reporting to the AI Strategy manager on project progress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Work with engineers to design, model, prototype, and test medium-voltage power converters. Tasks include simulation, component selection, hardware bring-up, device characterization, lab testing (efficiency, thermal, EMC), and documenting results for design reviews.

This intern role in Federal Security Operations focuses on cybersecurity, project tracking, and maintaining relationships with customer stakeholders in a mission-driven environment.

The HR Intern supports various HR tasks like recruitment, onboarding, training, and analytics, enhancing process improvements within a remote team.

The Product Marketing Intern will assist in performance reporting, content development, marketing campaigns, and provide customer service. This role aims to gain marketing experience.

Assist the product design team with UI tasks, support usability testing, maintain design libraries, and participate in design reviews.

As an Advertising Design Intern, you'll create visually engaging advertisements, support graphic designers, and maintain high design standards in a fast-paced environment.

As a GTM Engineering Intern, you will automate workflows, design demos, and develop AI-powered tools for market outreach while collaborating with sales and engineering teams.

Support Enveda's marketing by creating product marketing strategy, writing and publishing social content across platforms, supporting paid social campaigns, contributing to analytics and reporting (Google Analytics and paid platforms), coordinating with designers on visual assets, distributing corporate announcements, and maintaining content repurposing workflows.

Support enablement content publishing, tagging, audits, and QA in Seismic; manage Jira workflows and onboarding support; create/update internal docs and FAQs; troubleshoot enablement tools; partner cross-functionally on brand-refresh and onboarding projects; use AI tools to automate and improve enablement workflows.

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 global social media strategy for an action-RPG: monitor trends, research content and influencers, assist content calendar and publishing, prepare copy and assets, track performance, and help execute culturally sensitive, localized campaigns for English-speaking gaming communities.

Support the marketing team by creating and promoting content (blogs, newsletters, social posts), using AI tools for creation and analysis, managing social scheduling, conducting keyword and competitor research, tracking performance metrics, and engaging online communities.

Support product discovery and execution across ventures: conduct user research and market analysis, convert insights into requirements and tickets, coordinate design/engineering/growth, use AI tools to accelerate work, track launches, and synthesize learnings to recommend iterations.

Support recruitment (job postings, resume screening, interview coordination), onboarding, employee records, and engagement activities. Explore and implement AI-assisted HR tools, assist HR analytics/reporting, update policies, and collaborate across teams.

Support operationalizing AI workflows by mapping and improving processes, testing AI tools and orchestration, documenting experiments and playbooks, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and implementing automation to make AI work reliable, repeatable, and scalable.

Support the Program Lead in people and process operations: scheduling, agendas, meeting notes, SOPs, onboarding, tooling access, backlog tracking, documentation upkeep, and process improvement projects to keep startup operations running smoothly.

Design intuitive product experiences by creating user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes. Collaborate with product and engineering, use AI-assisted design tools, incorporate user feedback, and maintain visual and interaction consistency across components.