Top Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

Assist Community Managers with outreach strategies, lead generation, and onboarding professionals while optimizing conversion rates and campaign performance.

Assist authors and publishing professionals by offering support, reviewing projects, optimizing user engagement, maintaining FAQs, and suggesting product improvements.

As a Content Marketing Intern, you will assist in executing Reedsy's content strategy, focusing on SEO, content creation, and promotion to acquire leads.

As a Data Science Intern, you'll learn to translate business challenges into statistical problems, analyze large datasets, build machine learning models, and communicate insights effectively.

Manage transformation and deployment of cybersecurity applications into Kubernetes-based environments. Coordinate between Application Development and Platform teams to remove blockers, track timelines, align product and delivery roadmaps, and communicate technical progress. Serve as Mission Manager for assigned delivery efforts, foster team mentorship and growth, and support adoption of engineering best practices to deliver scalable mission value.

As a Growth Team SkillBridge Intern, you'll assist with market research, lead generation, proposal management, client engagement, and support sales efforts.

Work with the data team to design, build, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines and data models using Microsoft Fabric, dbt, PySpark, and SQL. Integrate and validate data across layers, optimize performance in Azure, follow GitHub CI/CD workflows, and document data governance while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

12-16 week internship implementing and optimizing GPU/accelerator kernels and custom operators, profiling and improving LLM inference and runtime performance, building benchmarks, fixing regressions, and shipping code to production or open-source AI infra projects.

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 the Field Team Network with administrative tasks: email communications, partner outreach, meeting notes, document organization, process review and improvement, time studies and quality review of calls, plus project work aligned with intern skills and growth.

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 a tax team by preparing work papers and tax returns, researching complex tax issues, applying tax law and IRS guidance, and communicating findings to seniors and managers. Participate in training, intern events, and projects while pursuing CPA education requirements. Maintain accuracy, professional standards, and support paperless, sustainable workplace practices.

This internship under the SkillBridge Program involves supporting threat intelligence, technical analysis, and intelligence editing, focusing on cybersecurity and associated risks.

10-week internship building rapid prototypes that use LLMs and OCR to auto-populate report drafts. Work with real templates and data, pair-program, run user interviews with report authors, present prototypes and recommendations to stakeholders.

Build and enhance full-stack web applications and APIs using React/TypeScript and Python. Work with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development tools to prototype and improve AI-native engineering workflows.