Brainco
AI Security Engineer Co-Op Intern, Winter 2027
San Francisco Bay Area · Intern · Internship
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About the role
- Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI.
- You'll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI.
- It's the kind of work you'll still be proud of in ten years from now.
Responsibilities
- Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions.
- Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact.
Requirements
- Build practical experience with the security foundations behind modern production AI systems.
Nice to have
- Contribute to developer-facing security tooling, such as linting rules, reusable workflows, automation, and guardrails.
- Help secure Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including access controls, image security, workload configuration, and deployment policies.
- Contribute to security baselines in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code, including IAM, networking, encryption, and secure defaults.
- Work with cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure to identify misconfigurations and improve security visibility.
- Help automate the detection and remediation of common security issues.
- Participate in threat modeling, code reviews, and architecture discussions alongside experienced security and platform engineers.
- Work with engineers to understand security findings and turn them into practical, actionable fixes.
- Help improve documentation and tooling so security controls are easy for developers to understand and adopt.
Compensation
- Competitive co-op compensation.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on real production systems used globally.
- Help secure AI systems deployed across governments, healthcare, and other critical industries.
Company info
- Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve.
- ABOUT BRAIN CO.
- Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward.
- Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model.
- Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services.
- As a Platform Security Engineer Co-Op Intern, you'll work alongside experienced security, platform, and infrastructure engineers to help build security directly into how Brain Co. develops and ships software.
- This co-op is designed for current undergraduate students, specifically juniors or seniors, who want hands-on experience securing real production systems.
- You'll contribute to projects across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, and Infrastructure-as-Code while receiving mentorship through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration with the team.
- This is a builder-focused security role.
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