Engineering Intern, Illumio
AI Supportability, 12 Week Program
Compensation: $ 37 USD
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
Be an early applicant
Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
Compensation: $ 37 USD
5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable every organization to realize a future without high-profile breaches.
Role
Who you are
- We value autonomy, curiosity, and a bias toward action
- Currently enrolled in a full-time Bachelor’s degree program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, with an expected graduation date in Winter 2026 or Spring 2027
- Experience with C++ and GoLang
- Strong interest in Operating Systems, System Software Development, and AI/ML systems
- Understanding of networking concepts and distributed systems
- Bonus: Exposure to observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) or AI frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
What the job involves
- This is a 12 week internship program beginning on May 26th 2026 or June 22nd 2026
- We are looking for a motivated and passionate intern to join the core team responsible for building the Virtual Enforcement Node (VEN) — the agent software powering Illumio Core and Illumio Edge
- This team is expanding its focus to include AI supportability, ensuring our AI-driven security features are reliable, observable, and easy to troubleshoot at scale
- You’ll work alongside a small, high-functioning team that empowers engineers to innovate and take ownership
- You'll collaborate with engineers to improve the supportability of AI-powered features within the VEN
- Build diagnostics, logging, and observability tools for AI components embedded in the agent
- Contribute to the design and implementation of system services in C++ and GoLang that interact with AI models and inference pipelines
- Help identify and resolve reliability issues in AI workflows running on customer workloads
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to postmortem analyses for AI-related incidents
- Learn from experienced engineers and have a direct impact on production systems
- You'll work on mission-critical software deployed globally
- Contribute to the supportability of cutting-edge AI features in cybersecurity
- Learn from a team that values mentorship, ownership, and technical excellence
- Work with teams across engineering, product, and support to understand the full lifecycle of AI-powered features
- Work on cutting-edge AI problems that actually ship to production
- Build a strong foundation in systems engineering, observability, and AI infrastructure — skills highly valued in both startups and large tech companies
Our take
Cybersecurity remains an ongoing battle, with evolving cyberthreats and ever-more determined cybercriminals, and major data breaches such as the SolarWinds hack have the potential to cause widespread disruption. Illumio is taking a different approach to most of the mainstream security companies, with a process called "microsegmentation". This makes it easier to guard companies from security breaches, and contain any breaches that occur.
Detection of viruses is no longer considered sufficient to keep companies and individuals safe. Illumio takes a “zero trust” approach, in which everything is viewed as suspicious, a similar approach to that which is used by the White House. The company operates at the cutting edge of microsegmentation, focusing on protecting cloud datacenters and workloads. With more and more companies moving to the cloud, this approach is crucial.
Illumio also protects endpoints, partnering with big players such as Citrix, Amazon Web Services, and Splunk. A collaboration with Appgate, a Zero Trust secure access company, delivers the industry's first integrated Zero Trust Network Access and Segmentation solution, which can reduce risk across hybrid infrastructure, and proves Illumio's dedication to innovating the space. Additionally, the company announced a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), that is tailored to assist federal agencies in reducing risk.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$225m
SERIES F
Feb 2019
$65m
SERIES E
Total funding: $564.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage
- Health and Dependent Savings Accounts
- Life and Disability Programs
- Paid Parental Leave
- Voluntary Benefit Programs
- Company Sponsored Wellness Program
- Wellness Reimbursement Program
- Retirement Savings
- Equity Opportunities
- Paid time off and Paid Holidays
- Employee Incentive Program
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Andrew Rubin
(CEO)Started in Business Development, as an Analyst at VoiceNet Communications, and as a Director at VoiceNet. Worked at Cymtec Systems for over 8 years, promoted from VP of Sales to CEO. Seed Investor in Tory Burch, and Powermat. Current Strategic Advisor to Menlo Security, and Bolt.
PJ Kirner
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Cornell. Worked as an Engineer Manager for over 6 years at Trilogy. Software Architect at Funkware for over 3 years. Was Principal Systems Engineer at Cluster File Systems. Distinguished Engineer for over 5 years at Juniper Networks. Was CTO of Cymtec Systems.
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