Intelligence Intern (AI/Cybersecurity)

Location: USA - Arlington, VA; hybrid arrangement with 3 days per week in person at the CrowdStrike Arlington office

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company developing a cloud-delivered, AI-native endpoint protection platform and intelligence systems.

What you will do

• Choose and develop a project in data science and AI, infrastructure and platform engineering, software engineering, or security research.
• Prototype, build, and operate intelligence pipeline systems for large-scale information collection, processing, and exploration.
• Architect AI-assisted systems by integrating AI components with tools and data sources and verifying their output.
• Develop AI workflow evaluation, monitoring, failure handling, and continuous improvement approaches for production use.
• Work directly with Senior Data Scientists, Engineers, and Researchers.

Requirements

• Undergraduate or master's student in the penultimate year of study, graduating in 2028, studying Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Solid knowledge and experience in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Comfort working in Linux with Git and modern CI/CD.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes, demonstrated through repositories, workflows, or projects where AI agents performed substantial work.
• Ability to design around AI using interfaces, test suites, failure modes, and quality gates for AI systems acting on real tasks.
• Ability to communicate technical details simply and top-down, make independently sound and justifiable decisions, plan and prioritize work independently, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work unsupervised, communicate asynchronously, and take initiative in a globally distributed team.

Nice to have

• Experience or interest in multi-agent orchestration, RAG, sandboxing, software factories, evaluations, self-improvement loops, containerized workloads, platform tooling, binary analysis, vulnerability research, or threat intelligence.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time internship requiring 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, during standard business hours.
• Internship dates: June 2–August 20, 2027, or June 14–September 3, 2027.
• Paid holidays, including birthday holidays, and 401k matching where applicable.
• Mentorship, professional development workshops, technical talks, and an Executive Speaker Series.
• Employee networks, volunteer opportunities, wellness programs, employee assistance, and office amenities.
• Paid position with ownership of impactful projects and support from experienced professionals.