Top Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

Work as a project-based communications intern within a six-person marketing team. Create a strategic communications plan targeted to specific audiences, develop marketing strategies to promote educational content and boost membership, and collaborate with a volunteer mentor and staff. Projects are flexible to meet spring internship course requirements.

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.

Support the Educational Team by building a uniform Google Sites platform, assist interns and mentors, and contribute to creating introductory courses across six economics topics. Work is project-based and flexible to meet academic internship requirements.

Remote HR internship supporting end-to-end talent acquisition. Responsibilities include posting job openings, screening resumes, shortlisting candidates, coordinating interviews, scheduling, and maintaining candidate data. The role includes weekday work from 9 AM to 6 PM, a Saturday discussion session, mentorship, networking, and an internship certificate upon completion.

Supports research into patient and caregiver experiences through interviews, surveys, focus groups, data analysis, usability testing, and reporting. Collaborates with therapists, administrators, and designers to improve digital interactions, accessibility, service efficiency, and patient care.

Support execution of large-scale B2B outbound and demand-generation campaigns: build outreach sequences, manage outreach tools, enrich and QA data, maintain outbound infrastructure, coordinate webinar and content syndication operations, research target accounts/ICPs, assist reporting, and apply AI tools to automate workflows.

Capture, record, edit, and produce podcasts, interviews, instructional videos, and other educational media for coaching, officiating, and player development programs. Operate cameras, microphones, lighting, and audio equipment; create long-form content, short clips, graphics, captions, and supplemental resources. Organize media assets, assist with program administration, and support content production for hockey education initiatives.

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.

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.

Build and optimize infrastructure for Netflix’s machine learning and AI systems, including distributed training, offline and post-training platforms, GPU-optimized inference, and serving. Collaborate with modeling teams on model-system codesign and solve large-scale infrastructure challenges. The internship lasts at least 12 weeks and is intended for PhD students returning to school afterward.

Conduct applied machine learning research at Netflix across areas such as recommender systems, NLP, computer vision, causal ML, agentic AI, multimodal modeling, reliable ML, and model efficiency. Develop and train models using modern frameworks and GPUs, apply distributed training and inference, build end-to-end ML pipelines, and communicate research findings. The 12-week onsite internship is based in Los Gatos, California, beginning in January 2027.

Support recruitment, campus outreach, and partnership development. Source, screen, and shortlist candidates; hire campus ambassadors and sales interns; coordinate onboarding, meetings, and payments; maintain partner relationships and track deliverables.

Work across frontend and backend to design, build, and ship annotation and review features; implement ingestion, storage, user management, and annotation pipelines; integrate model inference into workflows; optimize performance for large images/videos; design APIs and collaborate with product, operations, and annotators.

Label and outline plants in agricultural images using an online tool, tag crop and weed types per guidelines, maintain high accuracy across many images. Remote, flexible internship (3 months) with a monthly stipend and completion certificate. No coding or prior labeling experience required; video tutorials provided.

Perform B2B market and contact research to identify prospective companies and decision-makers, achieve daily lead-generation targets, gather executive contact information using tools and strategies, and support email prospecting and outreach efforts.

Support the sales team by conducting cold calls, generating leads, assisting with sales strategies, handling administrative tasks, maintaining customer databases/CRM, and collaborating to meet sales targets while gaining hands-on experience.

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

Supports Zoetis’s US Pork Team by assisting sales representatives with customer outreach, relationship management, presentations, market analysis, sales meetings, events, and promotions. The intern collaborates with sales, veterinary, and pork production teams while developing animal-health sales experience. The role is remote, runs for nine weeks, and requires proficiency with Microsoft Office, strong communication skills, self-management, and access to a personal vehicle for work travel.

Supports DIRECTV’s Project Management Framework by maintaining standards, templates, documentation, dashboards, governance processes, and project tracking. The intern reviews project artifacts, monitors milestones and risks, documents lessons learned, supports framework adoption and onboarding, and contributes to process improvements and responsible AI-enabled productivity initiatives. This is a 10-week remote internship for candidates with full U.S. work authorization.

Remote summer intern supporting DIRECTV’s People & Transformation team through cross-functional projects, communications analysis, project management, financial tracking, reporting, and compliance-related work. The role involves researching topics, identifying trends, maintaining trackers, preparing basic analyses, using AI and reporting tools, coordinating follow-up, and handling sensitive information with discretion.

Support PERGOLUX’s Germany-wide showroom expansion by researching markets and locations, speaking with brokers and operators, building commercial business cases, creating decision scorecards, and developing dashboards, automations, workflows, and AI-enabled tools. The intern will analyze early showroom results, capture lessons, and help create a scalable expansion playbook. The role combines research, commercial analysis, relationship-building, process design, and hands-on execution in German and English, with travel across Germany.

Supports DIRECTV for Business marketing initiatives through copywriting, campaign execution, market segmentation, KPI analysis, competitive research, website experience recommendations, and collaboration with creative and cross-functional teams. The intern may focus on business marketing or user experience and design while helping improve brand consistency, campaign effectiveness, qualified leads, and customer activations.

Supports DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS through KPI analytics, financial analysis, customer segmentation, and process improvement initiatives. The intern analyzes performance drivers, commitments, projects, and customer experience impacts; synthesizes insights into data stories; documents processes; and presents findings to leaders. The role involves cross-functional virtual collaboration and requires proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Python, SQL, Power BI, and data visualization.

Summer intern supporting DIRECTV for Business pricing, offers, and profitability initiatives. Responsibilities include building financial models in Excel, analyzing pricing and promotional performance, researching market and customer segmentation trends, developing pricing recommendations, collaborating cross-functionally, and tracking contract value, customer lifetime value, and promotional attach rates.

Supports the sales and business development organization through data management, market research, reporting, dashboard maintenance, lead generation, prospect research, outreach, presentations, and process improvement. The intern analyzes datasets using Excel and AI-enabled tools, identifies growth opportunities, assists with strategic initiatives, and contributes to relationship-building and client engagement activities in the specialty insurance industry.