2026 Summer Intern: Cyber Summer Associate Program

Job Description

LevelBlue 2026 Summer Intern: Cyber Summer Associate Program

LevelBlue is looking for 2026 Summer Interns to join our team!

About LevelBlue’s Professional Services

LevelBlue’s Professional Services helps clients transform their cybersecurity with LevelBlue’s elite global experts — offering tailored advisory, strategic planning, testing, and forensics for the most complex environments.

Position Overview

The Cyber Summer Associate Program is a ten-week internship designed to immerse you in LevelBlue’s proactive and reactive cybersecurity services. You will gain hands-on experience working on client projects and learn key skills in information security within one of the following specialized fields:

• Solutions Development: The Solutions Development (SolDev) team is the software engineering arm responsible for building custom cybersecurity tools and platforms for our consulting practices. SolDev Cyber Summer Associates will work in-person in our New York lab on our production applications, writing code primarily in Python and Rust.

Available Location

• New York, NY

Program Details

This paid internship commences in June with a virtual orientation schedule. During this initial period, you will have the opportunity to meet firm leadership, participate in training exercises, network with colleagues, and engage in special events.

Cyber Summer Associates work directly with our existing employees in one of our U.S. offices. Immersed in our experienced client teams, you will contribute to a wide variety of client projects. You will learn to utilize cutting-edge tools and technologies and attend regular training sessions and demos designed to build both technical and professional skills. Throughout the summer, you will also complete a research project on an impactful topic relevant to the firm’s work and present your findings at the program’s conclusion.

From day one, you will learn from managers and colleagues with robust technical backgrounds, many of whom have directly contributed to developing the foundations of the cyber-focused industry. Cyber Summer Associates benefit from having both a dedicated mentor and a supervisor to support their client work, professional development, and research projects.

The Cyber Summer Associate Program is a unique and exciting opportunity aimed at helping you build the essential skills and experience needed to kick-start your career in cybersecurity and at LevelBlue!

Job Responsibilities

• Perform tasks related to technical consulting engagements involving digital forensics, incident response, security testing, or security advisory.
• Support teams that are assessing clients’ risks related to internal IT infrastructure, publicly available IT assets, and other relevant attack surfaces.
• Become proficient with industry-standard tools and practices.
• Preserve and analyze data from laptop and desktop computers, servers, and mobile devices.
• Design, develop, document, analyze, test, and modify computer systems & programs.
• Conduct statistical analysis of large data sets and other investigative components of cases.
• Learn to present sophisticated technical matters and analysis clearly and concisely.
• Help uncover causes of clients’ network intrusions/data breaches, and increase knowledge of malware.
• Aid in the development of IT security risk metrics.
• Research and pilot security software (commercial and open-source).
• Assist in developing proprietary tools and programs to aid in matters of forensic analysis, network incident response, or penetration testing.
• Work alongside our practitioners and cybersecurity specialists.
• Stay up-to-date with the current regulatory environment, industry trends, and related implications.
• Develop and broaden skills through training and research.
• Contribute to and attend in-house training sessions.
• Suggest and pursue firm-enhancing projects that draw on your skills and academic interests.

Basic Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, Digital Forensics, or another quant-focused major.
• Knowledge of computer networking technologies.
• Familiarity with computer system hardware and software.
• Strong analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, plus attention to detail.
• Solid understanding of MS Office, and familiarity with Windows, Macintosh, and/or Linux operating systems.
• Creative problem-solving and eagerness to learn and research new skills.
• Exceptional work ethic, high level of professionalism, and commitment to ethical standards.
• Strong self-motivation and a positive mentality.

Applicants for this role should be rising seniors, graduating between Winter 2026 – Spring 2027 and have a GPA of 3.0 or above.

Preferred Experience

• Security Testing: Familiarity with configuring, identifying, testing, and remediating vulnerable services and security bugs, and other ethical hacking techniques; experience with cybersecurity-related CTF challenges and platforms such as Hack The Box, Over The Wire, Hacker101, etc.
• DFIR: Investigative mindset, foundational knowledge of digital forensic artifacts or operating systems, and experience with any of the following: malware analysis; database operations and analysis; system administration; security tooling including EDR; cloud security and investigations; preservation of digital media; parsing and drawing conclusions from large data sets.
• Solutions Development: You must love writing code, as you’ll be doing it every day. You’ll know Python and a statically-typed compiled language (e.g., Java, C++, Rust, Zig, Haskell). You’ll know algorithms and data structures, version control with git, unit testing, and be comfortable working with remote team members and taking direction from them. Interest in cybersecurity and AWS cloud is helpful.
• Flexibility to collaborate or work independently and ability to grasp new concepts quickly and adapt to changing priorities.
• Proficiency with Python, Java, C#, C++, SQL, or assembly languages are a plus but programming skills are not strictly required for all tracks.

This role is open to candidates legally authorized to work in the United States. At LevelBlue, we support flexible work and bring people together in person for key moments based on role, team, and business needs.

LevelBlue is committed to a culture of respect, inclusion, and equal opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other status protected under applicable law.

To all agencies: Please do not contact LevelBlue employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. LevelBlue’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies through its approved agency process and with a valid agreement in place. Any resume submitted outside this process will be considered the property of LevelBlue, and no fee will be paid if a candidate is hired from such a submission.