Intelligence Launch Intern - Summer

As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily.

Our customers span all industries, and they count on Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. Crowd Strikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.

We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Our University Recruiting program is dedicated to attracting and cultivating the future leaders of this industry.

This program offers paid positions for students and recent grads, designed to provide exposure to work that makes an impact while being supported through a structured experience with seasoned professionals. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

• HYBRID:
  The Intelligence Launch Internship operates on a hybrid model, requiring interns to work a mixed schedule of remote and in-person attendance. Interns must attend the Crowd Strike Arlington office for team meetings, collaboration sessions, and other essential events.

Interns are expected to work 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, during standard business hours.

• Cohort 1:
  Wednesday, May 26, 2027 - Friday, August 13, 2027
• Cohort 2:
  Wednesday, June 2 2027 - Friday, August 20, 2027
• Cohort 3:
  Monday, June 14, 2027 - Friday, September 3, 2027

The Crowd Strike Launch Internship Program is an exclusive early-career opportunity designed for exceptional sophomore level students (Class of 2029 or 2030). This program offers students the chance to gain hands‑on experience at one of the world's leading cybersecurity companies while still early in their academic journey.

Crowd Strike's Counter Adversary Operations (CAO) department is seeking Intelligence Launch Interns to join one of three teams: the Analytical Support Team (AST), the Intelligence Analysis Cell (IAC) or the Collections team. Depending on your placement, you may contribute to daily cyber threat intelligence reporting, investigative analysis of state‑affiliated actors and hacktivists, or OSINT collection and adversary tracking. Across all three teams, interns work alongside seasoned professionals, contribute to real customer‑facing intelligence products and build deep situational awareness of the global cyber threat landscape.

• Track adversaries in various online communities and conduct OSINT investigations to uncover adversary behavior, motivations and the organizations and individuals that enable threat actors
• Publish concise, customer‑facing intelligence products, applying analytic tradecraft and incorporating prior Crowd Strike finished intelligence
• Monitor, collect and triage open‑source reporting — including news articles, industry blogs, vendor reports, government releases and foreign language sources — to identify notable cyber threat…