Software Engineer, Intern Summer 2026 Ashburn, VA

Visas Internship Program provides an immersive 12-week journey where youll work on impactful projects that drive Visas mission forward. As a Visa intern youll build valuable connections across the organization sharpen your communication and business acumen and gain hands-on experience in a dynamic global environment. 

Throughout the program youll have exclusive access to interactive workshops and learning sessions designed to deepen your expertise expand your industry knowledge and elevate your professional skillset. You wont just be learning youll be contributing collaborating and innovating every step of the addition to professional development youll enjoy a variety of intern social events that foster community connection and fun throughout the summer. 

The experience culminates in an exciting final presentation where youll showcase your project achievements share key insights and present your recommendations to Visas leaders and stakeholders. This is your chance to demonstrate your business impact highlight your personal growth and align your work with Visas vision for the future. 

Visa Cybersecurity

Visas Cybersecurity team provides enterprise-wide risk-based cybersecurity policies practices and solutions to protect Visas systems and data from internal and external threats. To protect Visas assets in this dynamic threat landscape they are deploying new cyber-security tools collaborating across industries and taking a proactive approach to monitoring the cyberspace beyond the Visa network.

Imagine working for one of the pioneers in the payment technology space. The kind of company thats been setting the bar for the way people pay and get paid for more than 50 years and continues to innovate on a global scale. Now imagine that company is less than 10000 employees worldwide small enough that youll actually have an impact and do some amazing things. Sounds pretty awesome. Well that company exists and its Visa.

About Us

As part of Cyber Threat Analytics and Research team (CTAR) you will leverage cutting-edge technologies to perform statistical profiling inference classification clustering and predictive analysis. As a key member of the technical team you will create and implement sophisticated machine learning models to help derive new insights to defend against cyber-attacks. You will be working with a large variety of data sets cutting-edge security technologies and world-class operation teams to create awesome analytics for security and other business units.

Your responsibilities include:

• Analyze cyber event logs using Spark and big data technologies and develop deeper insights into products using advanced statistical methods
• Devise and implement deep learning models for building user behavior profiles. This includes data acquisition feature engineering model development and deployment.
• Leverage GenAI to build chatbot integrated with RAG MCP servers context engineering and momery management for improving Cyber investigation efficiency
• As a member of the CTAR team you will work closely with other data scientists and data engineers to build design engineer and develop analytical software and services that deliver security functionality and improve security efficiency and capabilities through automation.  
• Assist in shaping overall direction life-cycle management and leadership for Information Security architecture and technology related to Visa. 
• Communicate clean and persuasive data directly to end users leadership and other stakeholders technical and non-technical.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications 

• Students pursuing a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering CIS/MIS Cybersecurity Business or a related field with a graduation date in December 2026-August 2027
• Strong communications skills specifically the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors clear and concise written and spoken communications that demonstrate professional judgment.  

Preferred Qualifications 

• Proficiency in at least one programming language or technology including but not limited to Java C/C C# .NET Python Javascript HTML SQL
• Experience with Write utilities / automation tools using Selenium Java REST Python Groovy and more 
• Experience in developing Agentic Solution
• Machine learning deep learning AI models and data science background is great
• Experience with Gen AI/LLM
• Experience with large datasets using tools and Hadoop Spark or Hive
• Familiarity with software testing principles 
• Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies 
• Experience or knowledge in working with both RDBMS (preferably MySQL) and NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra).
• Knowledge of Git for version control
• Strong ability to collaborate 
• Highly driven resourceful and results oriented 
• Good team player and excellent interpersonal skills 
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity

Additional Information :

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated hourly range for a new hire into this position is $35-$40/hr which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program. 

Work Authorization: Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position. Future sponsorship will not be considered. 

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department 

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time. 

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers. 

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law. 

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Intern