2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAIntern
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to secure complex infrastructure, applications, products, and systems.
- Contribute to product security engineering through threat modeling, security risk assessment, fuzzing, program analysis, vulnerability research, exploit mitigations, cryptographic assessment, and incident response.
- Contribute to secure systems engineering involving secure OS features, hypervisors, secure boot, key management, trusted execution environments, and programmatic security improvements.
- Contribute to cybersecurity engineering involving OT security, application security, security architecture, GRC, threat hunting, incident response, automation, risk management, endpoint security, forensics, phishing, and malware analysis.
- Work hands-on to protect mobile, IoT, connectivity, and other real-world devices and systems from attacks.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Security, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Expected graduation date of November 2027 or later.
- Available for 11–14 weeks during Summer 2027, from May through September.
- For Product Security Engineering, relevant experience may include threat modeling, fuzzing, program analysis, supply chain security, vulnerability research, hardware security, AI model security, and computer systems or embedded device security.
- For Secure Systems Engineering, relevant knowledge includes systems security, operating systems, hypervisors, trusted execution environments, secure boot, key management, and programming languages including C, C++, Java, and Python.
- For Cybersecurity Engineering, relevant knowledge includes cybersecurity principles, statistics, ML/AI, security frameworks, endpoint security, cryptography, forensics, phishing, malware analysis, and Windows or Linux.
- Preferred candidates may be pursuing BS, MS, or Ph.D. degrees in ECE, Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related fields.
- Preferred candidates have at least one year of relevant academic experience in computer systems security, embedded device security, or programming languages.
Benefits
- 11–14-week Summer 2027 internship running between May and September.
- Competitive hourly pay and accrued vacation time.
- Relocation coverage and furnished housing accommodations for the internship duration.
- Mentorship, manager support, professional development workshops, social events, cross-functional speaker sessions, and an executive speaker series.
- Potential locations include Austin, Boulder, Boxborough, Bridgewater, Chandler, Irvine, New York City, Louisville, Raleigh, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Seattle.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.