Hardware Security Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Hardware Security Engineer Intern, you’ll contribute to building open, transparent, and secure AI systems. You’ll have the opportunity to work on projects that safeguard corporate assets by implementing and operating preventative and reactive security controls while collaborating with teams…

• Help design, prototype, and assess security solutions for AI infrastructure across hardware, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services, working with components like BMCs…
• Support secure platform lifecycle work such as device onboarding, provisioning, inventory, and configuration validation.
• Build automation and internal tools in Python, Bash, or similar languages to collect platform telemetry, detect configuration drift, or support incident investigations.
• Prototype AI-assisted security tools for tasks like asset classification, anomaly detection, or detection-and-response workflows.
• Research an emerging area such as confidential computing, remote attestation, or hardware roots of trust, and share your findings with the team.

What they're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, earned or expected by Summer 2028
• Foundational understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, networking, embedded systems, digital logic, or electronics
• Strong programming skills with a proficiency in Python or bash
• Exposure to building AI-assisted applications
• Prior security engineering experience through internships, hackathons, or projects

Tech stack

• Python