Intern: Engineer, Product Security (Summer 2024)

Key Skills

Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data science techniques, Design, Product Management

Job Description

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As Bayer Crop Science's Digital Farming arm, we deliver sustainable digital solutions using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. With groundbreaking technologies like Climate FieldView and our ForGround regenerative agriculture platform, our team is a part of some of the most important advancements in agriculture. 

Digital Farming is looking for talented and motivated Computer Science or Engineering students with solid Computer Science and Programming fundamentals for several of our engineering teams. As a Product Security intern, you will be involved with driving the integration of security controls into Climate’s applications and cloud services platform by applying your security and software engineering skills while learning a variety of software engineering, security technologies, and product security assessment techniques. Our interns focus on interesting product security projects they choose and we design to maximize the value to intern and company.

Contribute and collaborate with other Information Security team members across the broad spectrum of information security programs, such as Threat & Vulnerability Management, Security Incident Response, Cloud Security, Identity and Access, Governance, and Compliance.

• Act as a member of the Product Security team on a prioritized project within the strategy of the Security Engineering team

• Work to automate security controls to reduce our attack surface, proactively seek out vulnerabilities, and decrease response and recovery times

• Optimize security tool deployments and help introduce scalable processes across IT and Security Engineering capabilities

• Collaborate with product, design, data analytics, and engineering to understand the requirements that leverage the next generation of industry-leading data analytics technologies

• Work across teams with engineers to provide tools that will enable them to confidently create simple and secure solutions to complex problems

• Discuss security topics with technical and non-technical people

• Present your project to the full Engineering teeam at the end of your internship

WHO YOU ARE 

Required qualifications 

• Enrolled in a degreed program in a technical or STEM related field during the duration of the internship program

• Knowledge of a programming or scripting language

• Knowledge of software engineering or server-side Internet technologies

• Basic security experience or knowledge in 1 domain, and an understanding in at least 1 other

Preferred qualifications 

• Interest or experience in security engineering and technical security program

• Internship or personal project experience solving real-life problems

• Intellectual drive to learn anything

• Great debugging and reasoning skills

WHAT WE OFFER

• Salary estimated range between $30-$50/hour, depending on degree level and the hiring location.

• Meals are provided in addition to our fully stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages

• 1:1 mentoring from a talented and motivated teammate

• Opportunity to work on meaningful projects that have a direct impact on the company

• Exciting company sponsored events, activities, and learning opportunities

• Opportunities to interact with key executives and leadership

YOUR APPLICATION

At Bayer, we strive to build inclusive experiences for candidates and employees alike in which a diverse set of perspectives and voices are represented. If this role sounds exciting to you but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we still encourage you to apply. 

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we actively pursue ways to celebrate our differences and don’t discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sex (including pregnancy), protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion existing under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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