General Matter
Summer 2027 Internship - Information Security Engineer
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, California, United States - Education
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in a listed or related field.
About the job
Conduct offensive security testing of General Matter’s software, infrastructure, embedded devices, and industrial systems, then help engineers fix and prevent the vulnerabilities found.
What you'll do
- Penetration-test networks, applications, APIs, cloud and identity infrastructure, embedded devices, and industrial equipment; validate findings with proof-of-concept exploits.
- Audit code and designs, and build security tooling such as static-analysis rules or CI checks to prevent recurring vulnerabilities.
- Present findings and fixes to system owners and collaborate with engineers, vendors, and suppliers on remediation.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Security experience in at least one listed area, such as C, C++, Rust, Go, Python, reverse engineering, embedded systems, or network protocols.
- Understand common vulnerability classes and exploitation, including SQLi, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, memory corruption, and authentication or authorization flaws.
- Experience auditing code and features and reading large codebases; able to work on-site in Los Angeles full-time (40 hours/week) for the entire internship.
Nice to have
- Hands-on offensive security experience, such as CTFs, bug bounties, CVEs, security research, or homelab projects.
- Experience with fuzzing, static analysis, security tools, hardware hacking, industrial control systems, or attacking Windows/Linux/cloud environments.
Pay
$32–$46 per hour (hourly pay); monthly housing stipend (amount not stated)
Tools
Python, C, C++, Rust, Go, TypeScript, AFL++, libFuzzer
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