AI Security Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

2 months ago

H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

Build and improve security controls in CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, secrets scanning, dependency checks, and automated policy enforcement.
Contribute to developer-facing security tooling, reusable workflows, automation, linting rules, and guardrails.
Help secure Kubernetes and containerized workloads through access controls, image security, workload configuration, and deployment policies.
Contribute to Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code security baselines covering IAM, networking, encryption, and secure defaults.
Work with AWS, GCP, or Azure infrastructure to identify misconfigurations and improve security visibility.
Automate detection and remediation of common security issues.
Participate in threat modeling, code reviews, and architecture discussions with security and platform engineers.
Help engineers understand security findings and implement practical fixes.
Improve documentation and tooling so developers can understand and adopt security controls.

Be a current undergraduate junior or senior graduating no later than June 2028 and pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
Have strong software engineering fundamentals developed through coursework, internships, research, or personal projects.
Have programming experience in Python, Go, Java, C++, Bash, or a similar language.
Have exposure to or strong interest in application security, platform security, cloud security, or infrastructure security.
Be familiar with or interested in learning Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Have an interest in CI/CD, containers, cloud infrastructure, and deployment workflows.
Bonus qualifications include coursework, projects, or internships involving cloud security, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure-as-Code.
Bonus qualifications include familiarity with OPA, Conftest, Kyverno, Trivy, Semgrep, secrets management, IAM, authentication and authorization systems, software supply chain security, image signing, SBOMs, secure build pipelines, developer tools, or automation.

Internship dates are May 31, 2027-August 6, 2027 or July 5, 2027-September 10, 2027.
Competitive internship compensation is provided.
The role includes hands-on mentorship from experienced security and infrastructure engineers.
The intern will work on real production systems used globally.
Potential return-offer consideration is available for future internships or full-time roles.
Daily lunches are provided if onsite.

11-50 employees

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