Top Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

The intern will assist in creating marketing strategies, collaborating with the team, and participating in idea discussions to drive engagement for brands.

Support transportation, freight management, and trade compliance tasks: track shipments, coordinate carriers, review shipping and customs documentation, assist with freight reporting, and help maintain logistics procedures and records while working on process improvement projects.

As a Marketing Intern, you'll assist in creating marketing campaigns, content generation, social media posting, and partner marketing efforts while gaining hands-on experience in the edge AI field.

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.

Reviews medical literature, clinical studies, and treatment guidelines related to personal injury, workers’ compensation, and malpractice cases. Produces structured briefs for product and engineering teams, validates medical terminology, diagnosis codes, and treatment pathways in AI training data, collaborates with product managers to ensure AI output accuracy, and identifies research gaps relevant to case evaluation.

Support faculty development and instructional quality for ERAU Worldwide by reviewing courses, observing teaching, designing and delivering professional learning, ensuring adherence to best practices and contractual standards, and participating in special projects to improve course management and student success.

Marketing Intern will support social media and broader marketing campaigns by creating content, monitoring engagement, researching trends, and managing marketing materials. The role works closely with the marketing team and Head of Marketing in a remote environment. Candidates will gain practical experience in social media communication, content creation, campaign execution, and marketing strategy.

Develop and maintain web application user interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks. Assist with style guides, review and debug code, and support usability, quality, and performance improvements. Collaborate with developers and designers in a fast-paced environment while gaining practical experience in UI/UX principles, responsive design, and front-end development.

Research emerging cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and trends; analyze threat intelligence data; support incident response and forensic investigations; collaborate on security technology development; and stay current with evolving threat intelligence methodologies and tools.

Support and grow Wondy’s social media across LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and other platforms. Create and schedule engaging content, monitor performance metrics, interact with followers, and provide insights. Collaborate with founders, propose trends-driven ideas, and use tools like Framer and HubSpot to streamline workflows and analytics.

Lead Marketing / Public Relations Intern will own marketing and PR initiatives, collaborate with founders on branding, analyze market trends, manage campaigns, and use Google Workspace, HubSpot, and Framer. Opportunity to grow into a full-time leadership role at an eCommerce-focused AI startup.

Support go-to-market strategy and execution across inbound and outbound channels: define ICPs, join user calls, create Excel demo videos, run outreach using Clay/HeyReach/Instantly, post and measure performance on social platforms, and optimize funnel metrics (visits, conversion, retention, referral).

This 10-week, part-time Research Internship involves designing and executing an end-to-end behavioral health research project using clinical data. Responsibilities include applying quantitative and qualitative methods, analyzing findings, preparing and submitting a manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal, collaborating cross-functionally, and sharing insights that inform care models and organizational strategy.

Supports specific stop loss claim audits by reviewing medical documentation, validating records, analyzing medical and pharmaceutical claims data, identifying discrepancies and overpayments, and preparing audit reports. Uses Microsoft Office tools to organize and report findings while maintaining PHI confidentiality. Collaborates with auditors on process improvement and special projects in a flexible, remote, approximately 20-hour-per-week internship.

Supports specific stop loss claim audits by reviewing medical documentation, validating records, analyzing medical and pharmaceutical claims data, identifying discrepancies and overpayments, and preparing reports. Uses Microsoft Office tools to organize and report findings, maintains PHI confidentiality, communicates audit results, and assists with process improvement initiatives. This is a remote, flexible internship of approximately 20 hours per week.

Supports specific stop loss claim audits by reviewing medical documentation, validating records, analyzing medical and pharmaceutical claims data, identifying discrepancies and overpayments, and preparing audit reports. Uses Microsoft Office tools to organize and report findings, maintains PHI confidentiality, communicates with audit team members, and assists with process improvement projects. This is a remote, flexible internship of approximately 20 hours per week.

Support Bantam Communications' public affairs teams by conducting research, drafting and editing communications, coordinating with clients and partners, tracking tasks and timelines, and using AI tools to draft and polish materials while learning across campaign, advocacy, research, and communications work.

Design, implement, and evaluate applied research projects to improve alignment, safety, and evaluation of LLM-based guardrails. Work on experiments (e.g., synthetic data quality metrics, explanations for blocked content), deliver results with mentor guidance, and present findings to the team to shape product capabilities.

Support field projects across health, agriculture, and education in Sub-Saharan Africa: engage with ministries and donors, build data capture and analysis solutions, train AI for nutrient detection using handheld spectrometers, and design/run national-scale STEM programs and contests. Work will be chosen based on interests and abilities.

The Research Scientist Intern will architect algorithms, train AI models, collaborate with healthcare professionals, and publish research in medical AI applications.

The intern will assist in regulatory projects related to CMC, support document preparation, maintain regulatory information, and contribute to process improvements while gaining hands-on biotech experience.

Contribute to cloud-native services and tooling for a GPU cloud platform: work on Kubernetes scheduling, APIs, automation, IaC, CI/CD, testing, code reviews, and cross-functional features.

As a Growth Operations Intern, you'll assist in user acquisition, onboarding, engagement, and retention strategies for an AI infrastructure platform, working with data to drive growth and improve user experience.

The Social Media/Marketing Intern will create content for Twitter and engage with communities on various platforms to support Loopring's marketing efforts.