[Hiring] Intern - Software Engineer (Product Architecture) @Akamai

Role Description

Does creating products that power and protect life online excite you? Are you interested in product design and innovation at a leading technology organization? Join our world-class Security Technology Group!

Our team is part of the Security Technology Group, driving the future of Application, API, and AI protection on the web. We help thousands of the largest enterprises protect their services and websites over the Internet. As a Fortune 1000 company and recognized web security market leader, we have a proven record of delivering best in class security products to our customers.

As a Software Engineer Intern, you will be responsible for:

• Understanding web security landscape.
• Running model optimization experiments.
• Suggesting and optimizing data streams, algorithms and approaches used for attack detection and mitigation.
• Determining practical constraints on the ML processes and heuristics running in Akamai cloud.
• Assessing and analyzing web traffic and attack patterns.
• Developing software tools to support AI/ML production system monitoring and prediction evaluations.

Qualifications

• Be pursuing a Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related major and graduating after December 2026.
• Have experience with Unix/Linux command-line.
• Have hands-on knowledge of Python or Java, as well as Shell scripting.
• Have knowledge of statistics, coursework in ML/AI or related fields, regular expressions, Spark, and MLFlow.
• Be a self-starter with a curious mindset.

Requirements

• Our 6-month intern program starts in July.
• The program requires you to be available 40 hours per week during summer months (July-September).
• We offer the opportunity to work part-time during the academic year (October-December).
• This is a flexible role and may be performed at your home and/or the local Akamai office (in the country advertised).

Benefits

• Mentorship.
• Career development trainings.
• Visibility into senior leadership through Fireside Chats.
• Networking and social events with an international intern cohort.
• Fun perks including Akamai branded merchandise.