Technology Internships for First Years and Sophomores
Interested in gaining experience in the tech industry? Check out these programs designed for first and second-year students. Please note this is not an exhaustive list and there are other tech internships that might be open to underclassmen, even if they don’t explicitly target this population.
Citadel Launch
“The Launch Internship is an eleven-week paid internship program for students aspiring to be engineers (specifically sophomores) and seeking an opportunity learn about the finance industry. As a Launch Intern, you will join us in a premier destination of learning and mentorship. During the 11-week program, you will be immersed in the finance industry, collaborating with experienced engineers on projects that have impact on our firms and global capital markets. You will have the opportunity to network and socialize with peers and even connect with senior leaders at Citadel and Citadel Securities.”
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Duolingo Thrive
“The Duolingo Thrive Program is an immersive 8-week summer internship program that provides second-year students from communities underrepresented in tech the opportunity to develop their technical skills and experience what it’s like to work at Duolingo.”
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Explore Microsoft Internship
“Explore Microsoft is a twelve-week summer internship program specifically designed for students in their first or second year of a bachelor’s degree program and provides the opportunity to experience the main phases of the product development cycle: Design, Build and Quality. This program is designed to encourage your interest in in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline. The Explore Internship is intended for students who are beginning their academic studies and would like to learn more about careers in software development through a learning program. Interns will gain group project experience working alongside other Explore Interns. Your on-the-job learning will be enhanced with mentoring, community building and networking opportunities.”
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JPMorganChase Fellowship Program
“The JPMorganChase Fellowship Program offers a five-week paid, full-time summer fellowship held in select JPMorganChase offices. This program is seeking sophomore students, including, without limitation, Black, Hispanic and Latino students, who are interested in exploring career opportunities at JPMorganChase. This opportunity will expose you to careers in financial services and includes hands-on experience and a project-based curriculum, designed to help you build a pathway to future employment opportunities. Technical tracks include Global Technology-Software Engineering and Data Science.”
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NVIDIA Ignite
“The NVIDIA Ignite program was created to give you real-world experiences with real technology. You’ll get hands-on exposure to never-before-seen solutions. You’ll even be able to choose your area of interest and interview with the team you’ll be joining—from engineering to finance, HR, marketing, and more. NVIDIA Ignite immerses students of historically underrepresented communities in a 12-week internship through NVIDIA’s products, culture, and ecosystem. If you’ve just started your 1st or 2nd year as an undergraduate and love hardware, software, and business, this pre-internship program is the perfect way to kickstart your career.”
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Outreachy
“Outreachy is a paid, remote internship program. Outreachy’s goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in tech. We help newcomers to free software and open source make their first contributions. Interns work with experienced mentors from open source communities. Outreachy internship projects may include programming, user experience, documentation, illustration, graphical design, or data science. Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy sponsors or in jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship.”
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SEO Tech Developer Program
“SEO Tech Developer is a virtual intensive, free immersion program to propel first-year and sophomore computer science and software engineering college students to the next level — including a paid six-week summer residency.”
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Wells Fargo Sophomore Discovery Fellowship
“The Sophomore Discovery Fellowship Program is designed to provide students, who have completed their sophomore year of college, with an in-depth understanding of the day-to-day responsibilities of full-time employees across a variety of roles within Wells Fargo. Fellows receive comprehensive professional and educational experience through networking, job shadowing, and other engagement opportunities paired with a summer capstone project and presentation.”
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Additional educational programs open to first and second-year students are listed below:
Bank of America Global Technology Early Insights Forum
“Throughout this virtual experience, you’ll learn what it takes to be a technology professional at Bank of America. You’ll hear from business leaders within the Global Technology space, attend professional skills-building workshops, hear more about the “day in the life” of current technology professionals, and participate in professional and technical breakout sessions.”
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Five Rings LINK: Software Development Intensive Program
“Five Rings is a proprietary trading firm founded with a vision of combining strategy, innovation and technology to succeed in today’s global markets. This Summer 2026, Five Rings will host an immersive, 5-day workshop exploring how trading systems technologies are designed and built. Current sophomores are invited to apply to join us in New York City at our office in Brookfield Place for this week-long intensive experience.”
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Google Summer of Code
“Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 10-week programming project with an open source organization during their break from a post-secondary academic program. Students contact the mentor organizations they want to work with and write up a project proposal for the summer. If accepted, students spend a few weeks integrating with their organizations prior to the start of coding. Students then have 10 weeks to code, meeting the deadlines agreed upon with their mentors.”
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Jane Street First-Year Trading & Technology Program (FTTP)
“Over the course of a few days, a select group of first-year undergraduates will learn more about Jane Street’s innovative trading and technology models through a series of classes and a team-based mock trading simulation game.”
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Jane Street Focus Program (FOCUS)
“Our FOCUS program is part of our commitment to give as many people as possible the chance to learn more about what we do. We invite those who have experienced barriers to accessing advanced STEM educational opportunities to meet our team and learn more about our trading, software engineering, and strategy and product teams. This multi-day program was created for first-year students currently enrolled in university. It does not require a prior knowledge of finance, only an interest in seeing what a career at Jane Street might look like.”
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Jane Street Immersion Program (JSIP)
“The Jane Street Immersion Program (JSIP) is a multi-week summer program that takes place in New York City. JSIP is intended for undergraduate students between their first and second years who are passionate about computer science and have also experienced barriers to opportunity within the field. JSIP Fellows will learn and develop their programming skills in a collaborative, fast-paced environment to help prepare them for a career in software engineering.”
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JPMorganChase Career.edYOU Academy
“Career.edYOU Academy is a selective, virtual educational program designed for college sophomores in the United States interested in a career at JPMorgan Chase. This program will deliver an immersive experience introducing you to internship opportunities in finance and technology, while providing insight into the recruiting process.”
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MLH Fellowship
“The MLH Fellowship is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring software engineers. Instead of interning at a single company, on the Open Source Track, you’ll contribute to the type of Open Source projects that every company depends on.”
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Salesforce Futureforce Tech Launchpad
“Futureforce Tech Launchpad is a Salesforce is a pre-internship program for sophomores powered by CodePath. It provides a hands-on, immersive experience combining full-stack web development and 1:1 mentorship to make students internship-ready. This unique program is located in San Francisco at Salesforce headquarters and provides first-hand exposure of what it’s like to work at the world’s #1 CRM. “
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Optiver FutureFocus Technology Program
“FutureFocus is a selective educational experience for sophomores, designed to uncover how world-class engineers build and optimize the systems that move global markets. Across five action-packed days, you’ll get hands-on experience, technical mentorship, and a behind-the-scenes view of Optiver’s technology-driven edge. “
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PayPal Career Academy for Tech
“A curated educational program designed to enable First Generation students entering their second year at University to year prepare for a future career in tech. Students will learn valuable skills in interviewing, networking, professional development as well as the most up to date trends in Software Engineering.”
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Uber Career Prep: Software Engineering Fellowship Program
“Uber Career Prep (UCP) is an unpaid fellowship for undergraduate engineering students that brings transparency and raises visibility around the necessary steps to embark on a STEM career in tech. Open to first and second-year students, the program includes 5 workshops, 1:1 mentorship, and technical mock interviews.”
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