Top Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

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.

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.

Remote internship supporting tax research, testing, and documentation. Duties include researching tax form changes, interpreting tax code updates, writing requirements for programmers, designing and executing test cases, validating tax calculations, and contributing to release notes and customer guidance while learning tax software and tools.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

Seasonal full-time cellar intern supporting the winemaking team during harvest: sanitize equipment, perform punch downs, pump-overs, racking, barrel work, prepare for bottling, package and ship bottles, and learn winemaking processes.

As a Hardware Test Engineering Intern, you'll design and build test benches for power electronics, execute reliability tests, analyze data, and collaborate with engineering teams to enhance product development.

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.

Six-month engineering internship building production backend services and AI pipelines. Design SQL schemas (PostgreSQL), implement SaaS integrations (REST APIs, webhooks), work with embeddings, transformer models and vector databases, build end-to-end data processing pipelines, and contribute to code reviews and architecture discussions.

Work as a hands-on Product Management intern owning features end-to-end: run user research, write specs and user stories, work with engineering/design/growth to ship, analyze product data, support sprint planning and QA, benchmark competitors, and build roadmaps and documentation.

Summer internship to build production-facing realtime intelligence for a mobile app that optimizes campus quest participation. Design context-aware quest logic, detect stalls/drop-offs, suggest micro-actions, instrument evaluation loops, and ship components on top of existing realtime systems to improve behavioral outcomes like IRL quest completion and retention.

Student internship supporting People Operations: create a strategic hiring plan for a part-time Coordinator, build internal communication structures for the internship program, and complete a course-aligned project with mentor guidance to develop internal processes for educational and marketing teams.

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.

Project-based marketing internship creating a marketing strategy for JMI's educational content. Interns work within a six-person marketing team, are matched with volunteer mentors, and will produce strategic media to promote content and membership. Flexible project scope to meet spring internship course requirements.

Support JMI's marketing team by creating customer profiles, helping develop targeting strategies for other interns, and completing a flexible, course-aligned market research project under mentor guidance.