Research internships in California
230 open postings from 73 employers. Meta (32), NVIDIA (18) and TikTok (16) have posted the most. 96 of them name a term, most often Summer 2027 (64) and Fall 2026 (10). The most are in San Francisco, CA (34), San Jose, CA (33) and Santa Clara, CA (33). The biggest groups are Data (168), Hardware (19) and Software (10). 1 is listed as remote. A posting is listed here when its own title says so, whatever role it is filed under. The list is read daily from company career pages and public internship lists, so closed roles drop off.
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- MTS - Research Scientist InternshipCollinear AISunnyvale, CA12 weeks
- Research Intern, Model ShapingTogether AISan Francisco, CA
- Research Analyst Intern (Economics & Finance) - Summer 2027The Brattle GroupSan Francisco, CASummer 2027
- Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Summer 2027)Together AISan Francisco, CASummer 2027
- Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Winter 2027)Together AISan Francisco, CAWinter 2027
- Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Winter 2027)Together AISan Francisco, CAWinter 2027
- Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Summer 2027)Together AISan Francisco, CASummer 2027
- Research Intern, Inference (Winter 2027)Together AISan Francisco, CAWinter 2027
- Research Intern, Inference (Summer 2027)Together AISan Francisco, CASummer 2027
- AI Research Intern – Predictive World ModelXPENG MotorsSanta Clara, CA
- Staff Research Scientist InternVisaFoster City, CA
- Human-Centered AI Research Intern, Causal Reasoning ModelsToyota Research InstituteLos Altos, CAWinter 202712 weeks
- Research Intern FellowAbundantSan Francisco, CASummer 2027
- Research Scientist Intern - Seed Responsible AIByteDanceSan Jose, CA
- Research Scholar InternAfterQuerySan Francisco, CA
- AI Research InternIntuitMountain View, CASummer 2027
- Data Scientist Research Intern - PhDGooglePalo Alto, CASummer 2027
- 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Safety Research, Human Behavior AnalyticsWaymoMountain View, CASummer 2027
- AI/ML Research InternAfterQuerySan Francisco, CA$8K per month
- Security Research Intern (2027 Masters/PhD)CylakeSunnyvale, CA
- Member of Technical Staff, Research (Intern)AbundantSan Francisco, CA
- Integrated Photonics Research InternKeysight TechnologiesSanta Clara, CAWinter 2026
- Research Intern - AI-Native DatabasesByteDanceSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Cloud Acceleration Research Intern - DPU & AI InfraByteDanceSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Research Intern - Frontier AI SystemsByteDanceSan Jose, CAWinter 2026
- Research Scientist InternPluralis ResearchSan Francisco, CA
- Research InternBuild AISan Francisco, CA$12K per month
- AI Research Intern: Foundation Models - IMMEDIATE STARTGrayMatter RoboticsLos Angeles, CA$40–$50 per hour
- Research Intern - PhDGooglePalo Alto, CASummer 2027
- Research InternKeysight TechnologiesSanta Rosa, CA
- Creative Design and Research Co-op/Intern - Summer 2027HondaTorrance, CASummer 2027
- Data Lake Infrastructure and Data Analytics Research Engineer Intern - Applied Machine Learning ArkByteDanceSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Biologics Formulation Research Internship - Spring 2027Varda SpaceEl Segundo, CASpring 2027
- LLM Post-training Engineer Intern - Research & ProductTikTokSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- AI/LLM Network Research Intern - High Speed Network - PhDByteDanceSan Jose, CAFall 2026
- Research Intern - SDN Traffic Intelligence & ControlByteDanceSan Jose, CAFall 2026
- Research Scientist InternByteDanceSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Research Scientist Intern - Multimedia StreamingByteDanceSan Diego, CASummer 2027
- Research Engineer Intern - Agentic Systems & AI Infrastructure - Tiktok-Generalized ArchTikTokSan Jose, CAFall 2026
- Research Intern - AI Compute Efficiency & SchedulingByteDanceSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Research Engineer Intern - Monetization Technology - Business IntegrityTikTokSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Research Engineer Intern - Monetization Technology - Business IntegrityTikTokSan Jose, CAFall 2026
- Research Scientist Intern - Monetization Technology - Business IntegrityTikTokSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Research Scientist Intern - Multi-modal Agentic DatabasesByteDanceSan Jose, CAFall 2026
- Research Scientist Intern - AI Infra ComputeByteDanceSan Jose, CAFall 2026
- Research Scientist Intern - Distributed NoSQL Database SystemsByteDanceSan Jose, CAFall 2026
- Research Scientist Intern - Foundations & Intelligence ServiceTikTokSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Research Scientist Intern - Content IntelligenceTikTokSan Jose, CAFall 2026
- Research Scientist Intern - Neural Graphics and World ModelsTikTokSan Jose, CASummer 2027
- Research Scientist Intern - Trust and SafetyTikTokSan Jose, CAFall 2026
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- Engineering 1176
- Software engineering 424
- AI and machine learning 353
- Hardware engineering 219
- Electrical engineering 94
- Robotics 89
- Mechanical engineering 78
- Aerospace engineering 54
- Product management 50
- Sales 50
- Data science 47
- Cybersecurity 45
- Business 39
- Supply chain and logistics 39
- Marketing 34
- Cloud and DevOps 33
- Energy 33
- Data analyst 29
- Data engineering 29
- Manufacturing engineering 28
- Tax 27
- UX and product design 22
- Audit 17
- Social media 16
- IT 15
- Project management 15
- Biology and life sciences 14
- Environment and sustainability 14
- Civil engineering 12
- Quant 12
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