About the Internship:
CrowdStrike is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our growing Generative AI Research Center for Summer 2026. CrowdStrike has pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) since we first introduced AI-powered protection to replace signature-based antivirus over 10 years ago, and we've continued to deeply integrate it across our platform since.
CrowdStrike is expanding its Generative AI capabilities by developing advanced tooling and frameworks to support the creation, evaluation, and deployment of intelligent agent systems. Our platform enables Data Scientists to build, test, and benchmark various types of AI agents, leveraging the world's highest-fidelity security data and integration with our industry-leading threat hunting and response capabilities.
As a Cloud Engineer Intern, you will be responsible for building globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud ecosystems using Golang and Large Language Models, as well as contribute to the development of tools and frameworks that support our Data Science teams in creating and evaluating intelligent agent systems.
What You'll Do:
Learn Golang and build cloud-based services to support our top-rated security intelligence platform
Develop and maintain tools for building and evaluating GenAI-powered agent systems
Work closely with Data Science Engineers to facilitate agent development, fine-tuning, and benchmarking of LLMs
Work with AWS, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch
Learn about our scalable distributed architecture
Understand how backend systems work – gaining knowledge of distributed technologies and algorithms, horizontal and vertical
What You'll Need:
3rd or final year Computer Science student
Familiarity with multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies
Good verbal and written communication skills in English
Existing exposure to Go / Java / Python / C++ is considered an advantage
