IoT Software Engineer Intern (Boulder, CO - Summer 2025)
Description
Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.
Role Summary
Do you embrace challenges, and possess an abiding real passion for excellence? Then Splunk is where you desire to embark on the next phase of your career journey. We are rapidly growing our pool of extraordinary talent with an inspired group of enthusiastic, ambitious, and superiorly gifted front-end and back-end Software Developers, UX Designers, and Product Engineers.
Splunk’s IoT team is looking for candidates that want to do a deep dive in all facets of product development. You'll be getting your hands dirty with Python development on our custom IoT hardware, integrating IoT devices into our platform, developing software in embedded linux environment, working with Edge AI and finally rounding it out with some backend work. By the end of the term, we guarantee that you'll grow and become a more well-rounded individual with the expertise to build products from scratch!
What you'll get to do
- You will design, develop, code and test software systems, or applications for software improvements and new products
- You will actively contribute through participation in agile development of project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing, and ongoing support of systems
- We will encourage you to live innovation by promoting and soliciting ideas within project teams
Must-have Qualifications
- Actively pursuing a Bachelors or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical field, and a strong record of academic achievement
- At least one semester/quarter remaining to complete after the internship
- Available to work 40 hours a week for 12 weeks
Nice-to-have Qualifications
We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.
- Knowledge of software engineering processes, agile framework, tools (e.g.: programming proficiency in a language, preferably Python), methods, test development, algorithms and data structures
- Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems, and UNIX/Linux environments
- Experience working in Python
- Exposure to working Embedded Systems.
- Exposure to Linux development
- Exposure to Front-end technologies such as React, and back-end technologies such as Spring Boot and Flask
- Demonstrate competency and aptitude for Analytics, machine learning, AI, statistics, information retrieval, linguistic analysis
Our Splunktern Program allows incoming interns the flexibility to choose from three start/end dates, currently anticipated to be:
- Monday, May 19, 2025 - Friday, August 8, 2025
- Monday, June 2, 2025 - Friday, August 22, 2025
- Monday, June 16, 2025 - Friday, September 5, 2025
Candidates should consider their availability to start on one of these three dates prior to submitting an application. Please note: the dates above are subject to change at Splunk's sole discretion.
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!