Question 1

What is Cracked Interns?

Accepted Answer

Cracked Interns is a free, ranked list of the best Summer 2027 internships at frontier AI labs, quant trading firms, elite startups and hard-tech companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Jane Street, Stripe, Ramp, Palantir and SpaceX.

Question 2

Where do the internship listings come from?

Accepted Answer

Every listing is pulled directly from the company's own public job board (Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby) and links straight to the official application. Nothing is reposted from third-party aggregators.

Question 3

How often is the list updated?

Accepted Answer

Boards are re-scraped every day. New roles are added, closed roles drop off automatically, and students with alerts are notified when a match appears.

Question 4

How are internships ranked?

Accepted Answer

Each role gets a score from the company's tier (frontier labs and top quant firms rank highest), how recently it was posted, whether it is a software, ML or quant role, and whether pay is disclosed.

Question 5

When should I apply for Summer 2027 internships?

Accepted Answer

Most top tech and quant firms open Summer 2027 applications between August and October and fill roles on a rolling basis, so applying in the first few weeks after a role is posted gives you the best odds.

Question 6

Is Cracked Interns free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Browsing and internship alerts are free for students. Companies can sign up to be notified when students matching the roles they hire for join.

Rank	Role	Pay	Posted
1	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, VLM Harnesses for AV Planning Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$85/hr	New1d ago
2	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Perception Foundation Models Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$85/hr	New1d ago
3	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning - Simulation & Closed-Loop Training Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States	$85/hr	New1d ago
4	2027 Low Observables Engineer Intern Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States	$34 – $50/hr	New1d ago
5	2027 Guidance, Navigation, & Control Engineer Intern Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States	$42 – $60/hr	New1d ago
6	Machine Learning Research Intern (Summer 2027) Scale AI · New York, NY +1	$120,000 – $150,000/year	New1d ago
7	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research Scientist, Visual Reasoning Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$85/hr	New1d ago
8	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Behavior Post-training Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA +1	$85/hr	New1d ago
9	Winter 2027 Research Engineer Co-op Anduril · Santa Ana, California, United States	$60 – $75/hr	6d ago
10	2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning, Planning/Prediction Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$70 – $85/hr	1w ago
11	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Simulation Realism Waymo · London, England, United Kingdom	£80,000/year	1w ago
12	PhD Intern, Software Engineer - Graphics (2027) Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY	$74/hr	1w ago
13	2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Model Lifecycle Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$70 – $85/hr	1w ago
14	Software Engineering Intern (2027) Databricks · Bellevue, Washington +3	$40 – $60/hr	1w ago
15	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, AV Planning Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$85/hr	1w ago
16	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Post Training Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA: San Francisco, CA, USA	$85/hr	1w ago
17	PhD GenAI Research Scientist Intern Databricks · San Francisco, California	$54 – $60/hr	1w ago
18	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, World Modeling Evaluation Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$85/hr	1w ago
19	2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Planning/Prediction Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$85/hr	1w ago
20	2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Perception, Robotics Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$70 – $85/hr	1w ago
21	2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Research, Perception Foundation Models Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$70 – $85/hr	2w ago
22	2027 Summer Intern, BS, Software Engineer, Model Eval Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$60/hr	2w ago
23	2027 Summer Intern, MS, PhD, Software Engineer Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States	$70 – $85/hr	2w ago
24	2027 Summer Intern, BS, Waymo ML Ops & Automation Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA	$60/hr	2w ago
25	Winter 2027 Reliability Engineer Co-op Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States	$40 – $48/hr	2w ago

Summer 2027 internships at the best AI labs, quant firms and startups

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