Intelligence Intern (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid in the United Kingdom, with required attendance at the Reading or London office; Germany is also listed as a remote location. Interns must work 37.5 hours per week, Monday through Friday, during standard business hours.

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company developing an AI-native platform for protecting organizations from cyber threats.

What you will do

• Investigate and track advanced cyber intrusions, nation-state adversaries, and malicious tools.
• Reverse engineer malware and analyze malicious code to reconstruct functionality and improve threat understanding.
• Develop automation tools for malware analysis and threat-actor tracking.
• Create host-based and network-based signatures for large-scale threat hunting, detection, and tracking.
• Produce threat intelligence reports with actionable mitigation and detection guidance.
• Collaborate with intelligence, mitigation, and incident-response teams on adversary and campaign tracking.

Requirements

• Actively enrolled in university in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field and entering the penultimate year as a 2028 graduate, including the specified second-year bachelor’s, third-year sandwich-programme, or third-year integrated-master’s routes.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Knowledge of reverse-engineering tools, including disassemblers, decompilers, and debuggers, and processes such as malware unpacking and code-logic reconstruction.
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages, particularly Python.
• Ability to learn and self-teach new reverse-engineering techniques.
• Ability to express complex technical and non-technical concepts accurately in written, verbal, and graphical formats.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
• All employment offers are subject to a full background check.

Nice to have

• Ability to interpret raw network data and develop network signatures, custom protocol decoders, and decryption tools.
• Familiarity with targeted intrusions and tracking state-operated adversaries.
• Background in intelligence.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid internship with mentorship, structured support, and professional development through workshops, tech talks, and speaker sessions.
• Paid holidays, including birthday holidays, and 401k matching where applicable.
• Hybrid work with a collaborative office environment and access to company wellness, employee assistance, and employee network programs.
• Opportunity to own impactful cybersecurity projects and participate in companywide initiatives.

Hiring process

• Employment offers, including internship offers, require successful completion of a full background check.