AI Security Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Intern
- Employment
- Internship
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Coursework, projects, or internship experience involving cloud security, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Familiarity with security tooling such as OPA, Conftest, Kyverno, Trivy, Semgrep, or similar tools.
- Experience with secrets management, IAM, or authentication and authorization systems.
- Interest in software supply chain security, including dependency security, image signing, SBOMs, or secure build pipelines.
- Experience building developer tools or automation.
Full description
Our Mission
Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve.
About Brain Co.
Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions. Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward. Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model.
Why Now
Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services.
Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI. Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact.
You'll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI. It’s the kind of work you'll still be proud of in ten years from now.
About the Role
As an AI Security Engineer Intern, you’ll work alongside experienced security, platform, and infrastructure engineers to help build security directly into how Brain Co. develops and ships software.
This co-op is designed for current undergraduate juniors and seniors graduating no later than June 2028 who want hands-on experience securing real production systems. You’ll contribute to projects across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, and Infrastructure-as-Code while receiving mentorship through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration with the team.
This is a builder-focused security role. You’ll learn how security tooling and automated guardrails can make the secure path the easy path for engineers.
What You’ll Work On
- Help build and improve security controls in CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, secrets scanning, dependency checks, and automated policy enforcement.
- Contribute to developer-facing security tooling, such as linting rules, reusable workflows, automation, and guardrails.
- Help secure Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including access controls, image security, workload configuration, and deployment policies.
- Contribute to security baselines in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code, including IAM, networking, encryption, and secure defaults.
- Work with cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure to identify misconfigurations and improve security visibility.