Internships in Santa Cruz, California, United States

Joby Aviation invites service members nearing the end of their active duty to join the DoD SkillBridge program as interns across multiple departments. This initiative offers hands‑on experience in flight operations, aerospace engineering, aircraft maintenance, manufacturing, business support, supply chain, and IT/cybersecurity.

At Google, data drives all of our decision-making. In the Data Scientist - Research role, you will work all across the organization to help shape Google's business and technical strategies by processing, analyzing, and interpreting huge data sets.

As a Customer and Partner Solutions Engineer, you’ll help Google scale partner integrations, technical solutions, and developer enablement initiatives worldwide with the help of AI and automation. You’ll collaborate with product/engineering, external partners, developers, and internal engineering teams to design, implement, and troubleshoot technical integrations (APIs, SDKs, and platform protocols).

Tax team at PP&Co empowers individuals and businesses to achieve financial success through comprehensive tax services. As a Tax Intern you will assist in preparing tax returns, conduct research on regulations, and support tax projects while gaining hands‑on experience.

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise.

As a UX Engineer, you'll work on the front end of our products in a challenging, fast-paced environment, helping to bridge UX best practices and production execution. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to enable efficient, high quality execution and communications and launch innovative features to a global audience.

As a Hardware Engineering Intern for the Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team, you will help design and build the hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex, enabled by custom hardware designed and made in-house.

User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers who focus on customer experience. We play an integral part in gathering insights about product user needs, attitudes, and behaviors to inspire and inform design.

As a Business Data Scientist, you will be a subject matter specialist for translating business problems from your supported organization or functional area into analytical solutions and insights. You will provide technical mentorship in delivering project work including implementing data science solutions, improving data pipelines, developing evaluation metrics, or building statistical models that provide insights to the business.

As a Hardware Engineering Intern for the Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team, you will help design and build the hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex, enabled by custom hardware designed and made in-house.

As a Security Engineer Intern, you help protect network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect highly sensitive data like passwords and customer information. Security Engineers work with a broad range of devices, actively monitoring our systems for attacks and intrusions.

Music Therapy Interns provide therapeutic support to hospice patients and families in Santa Cruz County. Interns observe and co-lead sessions, gradually gaining autonomy.

Heron Power Electronics Team builds cutting‑edge power electronics to accelerate grid electrification. As an Electronics Design Engineer Intern you will design and simulate subcircuits, manage ECAD libraries, and develop test procedures for prototype hardware.

Heron Power is a startup building cutting-edge power electronics to accelerate grid electrification. The intern will support design, modeling, prototyping, and testing of medium‑voltage converters, collaborating with firmware, mechanical, validation, and manufacturing teams.

Heron Power builds cutting-edge power electronics to accelerate grid electrification. The Business Development Associate intern supports the BD team by researching target accounts, maintaining CRM pipelines, and translating technical content into customer‑facing collateral.