Censys

Summer 2027 Internship · 12 Weeks · Remote, with a week in Ann Arbor, MI

Every day, we scan the entire Internet. You will help build what we find.

Twelve weeks of production-impacting work — a customer-facing feature, an internal tool, or original security research, not a shelved capstone project.

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65K+
ports scanned, every day
500+
security risks checked daily
35K+
conversations handled by the Censys Assistant

About Censys

Censys is the authority for Internet intelligence — we maintain the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date map of Internet infrastructure. Fortune 500 companies, global governments, and security teams rely on that map to find and fix what attackers could reach first. Our teams are small, senior, and hands-on, which is exactly why interns get real ownership instead of a shelved side project. You'll work directly with the engineers and researchers who built the product, join a six-part Career Kickstart series on professional growth, and work remotely all summer — with regular opportunities to connect in person, including one week together at our Ann Arbor HQ, the same headquarters our teams work from year-round.

Choose your track

AI/LLM Engineering

Build on the Censys Assistant — a live product handling 35,000+ conversations and 125,000+ messages, not a research sandbox.

  • Python
  • LangGraph
  • LLM APIs
  • RAG/Context Engineering
  • Agent Evals

Backend Software Engineering

Work directly on the internet-scale scanning infrastructure behind our core product — at real production scale, not simulated.

  • Go
  • gRPC
  • Protobuf
  • Kubernetes
  • Distributed Systems
  • Spanner

ML/DS Software Engineering

Build the pipelines and infrastructure behind our models — from feature engineering to production ML systems, at Internet scale.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • ML Pipelines
  • Feature Eng.

Frontend Software Engineering

Own features end to end — from React frontends to strongly-typed Go/gRPC services — for tools customers and internal teams both use.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • gRPC
  • API Design

Internet Measurement (M.S./Ph.D)

Own an original Internet security research question end to end, using Censys's internet-scale scan data — not shadowing, owning.

  • Python
  • SQL/BigQuery
  • Internet Protocols
  • Internet Measurement

Software Engineer (Scanning)

Build and extend the protocol scanners that map the Internet — new fingerprints, new coverage, real production scale.

  • Go
  • TCP/IP
  • Network Protocols
  • Distributed Systems

Twelve weeks. Real production. Your name on it.

Applications for Summer 2027 are open to graduates of 2027 through 2029.

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