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.

Bank of America Global Technology Sophomore Summer Analyst

“Global Technology & Operations (GT&O) provides end-to-end technology and fulfillment to individual consumers, small businesses, middle-market businesses and large corporations. Globally, GT&O manages the critical systems and multiple platforms needed to maintain the enterprise’s market-leading positions in key segments, including deposits, payment products, consumer lending, wealth management, small business and middle-market lending, treasury services, investment banking, and sales and trading.”
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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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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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Additional educational programs/fellowships open to first and second-year students are listed below:

Coding it Forward Digital Fellowship

“The Civic Digital Fellowship and Civic Innovation Corps are paid, 10-week summer fellowships for early-career technologists. Fellows work across software engineering, data, design, and product management to deliver policy, improve systems, and strengthen products on behalf of the American people. The Civic Digital Fellowship places technologists in the federal government, while the Civic Innovation Corps places in state and local governments. They are open to first-year and sophomores as well as upperclassmen.”
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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 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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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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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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