Top Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

Supports AI engineering initiatives at Vantor, contributing to spatial intelligence solutions and helping develop technologies that enable customers to understand current and future conditions. The posting provides limited role-specific responsibilities but emphasizes problem-solving, innovation, collaboration, and mission-focused work. Applicants must qualify as a U.S. Person under applicable export control and ITAR requirements.

Supports AI safety, robotics, cybersecurity, Physical AI, and advanced mobility projects. Conducts research on standards, regulations, and emerging technologies; assists with safety assurance and consulting activities; develops reports, presentations, workshops, and client deliverables; and contributes to AI safety, cybersecurity, robotics, and technology capabilities.

Mission Lead Interns embed with defense customers, identify mission problems, configure and test AI workflows, troubleshoot deployments, onboard users, demonstrate mission impact, and expand customer relationships. The role requires independent execution in ambiguous environments, close coordination with Product, Engineering, Mission, Security, and Operations teams, frequent customer-site travel, and a current TS/SCI clearance.

Software Engineering Interns will build and ship high-impact software projects across product, infrastructure, customer experience, mobile, and security teams. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, and deploying features; collaborating with multidisciplinary teams; participating in agile development and prototyping; applying user-centered design; and learning through mentorship, technical talks, and feedback. The internship is virtual, full-time, and lasts 12 weeks during Summer 2027.

Research intern supporting next-generation memory and system architecture development for AI and datacenter workloads. Responsibilities include characterizing AI training and inference workloads, building analytical and simulation performance models, evaluating memory and integration technologies, validating models against reference data, and producing performance, efficiency, and cost analyses. The intern will document findings, contribute to technical reports and invention disclosures, and help quantify architectural tradeoffs for future memory products.

Supports the Customer Experience department by streamlining processes, coordinating cross-functional projects, executing deliverables, maintaining recurring compliance-related work, and fostering collaboration across Services, Success, and Support teams. The intern will receive onboarding, mentorship, routine check-ins, and exposure to multiple teams and stakeholders while working remotely during a 14–16-week term.

Supports aerospace proposals, production, field, and repair projects by assisting with cost, schedule, risk, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, stakeholder communication, and cross-functional coordination. The intern collaborates with product line leaders and teams across design, analysis, requirements, hardware, testing, supply chain, manufacturing, and suppliers while contributing to process improvements and successful project delivery.

Supports aerospace program and finance activities through industry analysis, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, proposal support, and process improvement. Collaborates with design, analysis, requirements, hardware, testing, supply chain, manufacturing, and product-line teams while helping manage cost, schedules, risks, milestones, and stakeholder communications across development, production, field, and repair projects.

Supports IT solution design and implementation, analyzes cybersecurity protocols and recommends improvements, and collaborates with data science teams to analyze data and generate actionable insights. The internship provides hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, and exposure to aerospace technology. Candidates must be enrolled in a relevant bachelor's or higher degree program, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and graduate in December 2027 or later.

Summer intern assisting with IT solution design and implementation, supporting cybersecurity initiatives through security protocol analysis, and collaborating with data science teams to analyze data and generate actionable insights. The role offers hands-on experience, mentorship, and professional development within Honeywell Aerospace. Candidates must remain enrolled in a relevant degree program, maintain at least a 3.0 GPA, and meet U.S. person requirements.

Supports aerospace research and development by assisting with experiments, prototype testing, data collection, analysis, documentation, and troubleshooting. Collaborates with experienced engineers and team members to validate new concepts, improve project outcomes, and advance Honeywell's technology initiatives.

Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Interns support process improvement, lean and continuous improvement initiatives, production process optimization, quality efforts, manufacturing data analysis, and problem-solving. They collaborate with cross-functional teams and help maintain manufacturing documentation and standard operating procedures while gaining hands-on exposure to manufacturing technologies and equipment.

Summer 2027 interns will support IT solution design, cybersecurity initiatives, and data science projects at Honeywell Aerospace. Responsibilities include implementing business-focused IT solutions, analyzing security protocols and recommending improvements, and collaborating with data science teams to generate actionable insights. Interns receive hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, relocation benefits, and short-term housing when eligible. The role is available at multiple U.S. locations.

Supports aerospace research and development through experiments, prototype testing, data collection, analysis, documentation, troubleshooting, and collaboration with experienced engineers. The intern contributes to validating new concepts and improving innovative aerospace technologies. The role is available at multiple U.S. locations and includes relocation benefits and short-term housing for eligible interns.

Supports manufacturing and industrial engineering projects focused on process improvement, lean principles, waste reduction, production optimization, quality, data analysis, problem-solving, and maintaining manufacturing documentation and standard operating procedures. The intern collaborates with cross-functional teams, gains hands-on exposure to manufacturing technologies and equipment, and receives mentorship and professional development within Honeywell Aerospace.

Develop deep learning and AI/ML models to predict cardiac events from ECG and physiological signals. Apply signal processing, analyze implantable-device datasets, build Python tools, validate algorithms, and support feasibility studies for diagnostic features. Collaborate with clinical, software, and hardware teams to improve implantable-device performance and patient outcomes.

Process Development Engineering Interns develop scalable manufacturing processes and test systems for medical devices. They apply chemistry, materials science, and engineering principles to process development, material selection, characterization, quality improvement, and manufacturing implementation. Interns collaborate with R&D, manufacturing, and technology teams; maintain process plans and manufacturing instructions; and ensure compliance with process development and quality requirements.

Support digital marketing and community efforts in MENA: gather and manage data for content and campaigns, handle community queries on Telegram/Discord, use campaign portals (Task On, Galaxy, Zealy), conduct data research, assist lead generation, monitor campaign metrics, and follow the content plan to improve engagement and ROI.

R&D intern developing and validating compiler features for high-performance computing. Responsibilities include analyzing CPU/GPU performance, reading PTX and LLVM assembly, implementing hardware intrinsics and mathematical algorithms, fixing compiler bugs, creating benchmarks and demos, and writing technical documentation. The role requires strong C++ or C# skills, understanding of memory management and object-oriented programming, and interest in CUDA, OpenMP, GPU architecture, algorithms, and numerical methods.

Hands-on internship offering cross-functional exposure to consulting, marketing, HR, operations, sales, partnerships, events, and content. Interns receive mentorship, structured development, real responsibility, and potential consideration for future roles.

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 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.

Support internship and volunteer recruiting by posting roles through Dover and social channels, screening applications, communicating with candidates, refining recruiting materials, and coordinating interviews. This fully remote internship offers hands-on talent acquisition experience, mentorship, and exposure to applicant tracking systems and recruiting workflows. The commitment is 5–10 hours weekly for three months, with North Carolina residency preferred and no prior recruiting experience required.

Design onboarding protocols, procedures, documentation, checklists, and reference materials for interns, volunteers, and program participants. Collaborate with the Founder and CEO, interns, and stakeholders to build onboarding systems, identify process gaps, and recommend improvements. This fully remote, unpaid three-month internship requires 5–10 hours weekly and offers mentorship and practical HR and operations experience.

Maintain and update a WordPress website, organize and publish LearnPress course content, troubleshoot minor site issues, and support ongoing website improvements. The intern will collaborate with an AI Curriculum Intern, report to the Founder and CEO, and gain hands-on web management and LMS administration experience in a fully remote, three-month internship.