Research & Development Intern

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers.

Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.
 

The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
 

Proactive security starts here. TrendMicro.com

Location: Hybrid role in Austin, TX office requiring three days a week in-office presence.
Job Description

Overview:

The Research & Development Intern will be a member of a team working on cutting-edge, enterprise-level network security solutions during Summer 2026.   

Responsibilities:

Candidates should thrive on working in a close, small team environment and possess excellent interpersonal skills, plus analytical, problem solving, verbal and written communication skills.  Interns will work on a team that works on projects including but not limited to: intrusion prevention, firewall, DDoS and traffic anomaly protection, VPN, encryption, port and host scans, web filtering, collaboration with vulnerability analysts and reverse engineers.

Required Qualifications:

Coursework in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, information security, or related fields

Fluency in one or more of the following languages:  C/C++, Java, or Python

Familiarity with:

Network and application protocols (IPv4/6, TCP, UDP) down to the packet level

Security technologies (authentication, encryption, compression, VPN)

Networking (switches, routers) and security (firewalls, IPS) equipment and technologies (VPN, VLAN)

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Python on both Microsoft Windows and Linux OSes is a plus

Knowledge of jscript, vbscript, python or any scripting language

Some programming experience

This position does not offer sponsorship for work permit applications or renewals, either now or in the future. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship, both currently and moving forward. The company will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this role (including, but not limited to, H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT, or any other employment-based visa).