Information Security Engineer Undergraduate Intern

About the Role

Come intern with Intel's Information Security organization. You will be a member of a highly collaborative Agile DevOps delivery team of information security professionals responsible for providing best-in-class security capabilities. Our Cyber Defense team is looking for undergraduate students in their 3rd or 4th year of college.

• Part-time (20 hours per week) for 1 year.
• Start Date: January 2027.
• Work Model: Hybrid (4 days onsite).

Key Responsibilities

As a Security Engineer Intern, your responsibilities will include:

• Support the Continuous Threat and Exposure Management (CTEM) process, including vulnerability identification/scanning, assessment, and remediation.
• Assist with remediation actions for discovered security vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
• Configuration, management, and operations of core platforms within the Cyber Defense organization (vulnerability/asset/application scanning, security patching, CTEM platform).
• Support an Agile and DevOps approach to platform management and maintenance, including support for deployment and management automation, version controls, and related continuous integration, delivery, and management processes.
• Assist with system automation, upgrades, and integration with various systems, tools, and data sources.
• Help develop defensive AI agents to respond to AI assisted attackers.
• Perform external attack surface management responsibilities such as attack path analysis, exposure exploitability analysis, and tactical remediation and containment of high-risk exposures.
• Develop/leverage key reporting and dashboarding to evaluate threat intelligence and determine potential risk to Intel in order to prioritize elimination of vulnerabilities across the enterprise.
• Work closely with software development engineers, systems engineers, network engineers, database administrators, monitoring team, and information security teams.

Minimum Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Experience listed below would be obtained through a combination of your schoolwork/research and/or relevant previous job and/or internship experiences.

• Education: Must be pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Cyber/Information Security, Management Information Systems, or other science/engineering related field.
• Understanding of, and/or completed coursework in:
• Information security models and concepts
• Information Technology/Security Operations and Service Delivery
• Cloud Computing and Cloud Security Components
• Proficiency in basic cybersecurity concepts, tools, and techniques such as network security, vulnerability management, or data protection practices.
• Available to work part-time (20 hours a week), beginning January 2027.

Preferred Qualifications

Understanding of, and/or completed coursework in:

• IT/Security Systems Engineer/Administrator duties.
• Windows and Linux administration (i.e., installation, configuration, and troubleshooting).
• Developing scripting and automation solutions to support system configuration, performance, and troubleshooting.
• Security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Offensive security, ethical hacking, penetration testing, networking skills.
• Basic scripting (Python, PowerShell, JavaScript) and database (SQL) skills.
• Writing simple to moderately complex scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks, dashboards.
• AI/LLM and AI Agents knowledge and experience.
• Software development concepts including Agile.
• Professional certifications through industry recognized organizations such as CompTIA, SANS, ISACA, ISC2 (e.g. CISSP).