AI Security Engineer Co-Op Intern, Winter 2027

5 days ago

H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

Build and improve security controls in CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, secrets scanning, dependency checks, and automated policy enforcement.
Develop developer-facing security tooling such as linting rules, reusable workflows, automation, 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.
Identify cloud misconfigurations and improve security visibility across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Automate detection and remediation of common security issues.
Participate in threat modeling, code reviews, and architecture discussions with security and platform engineers.
Translate security findings into practical, actionable fixes and improve documentation and tooling adoption.

Be a current undergraduate junior or senior pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
Have strong software engineering fundamentals gained 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.
Be interested in software delivery from code to production, including containers, cloud infrastructure, and deployment workflows.
Preferred experience includes cloud security, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, secrets management, IAM, authentication and authorization systems, developer tooling, or automation.
Preferred familiarity includes OPA, Conftest, Kyverno, Trivy, Semgrep, software supply chain security, image signing, SBOMs, or secure build pipelines.

Winter/Spring co-op runs from January 11, 2027 through April 30, 2027.
Competitive co-op compensation.
Hands-on mentorship from experienced security, platform, and infrastructure engineers.
Opportunity to work on real production systems used globally.
Potential return-offer consideration for future internships or full-time roles.
Daily lunches if onsite.

11-50 employees

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