What are the responsibilities and job description for the AI Research Intern position at Tanium?
The Basics
Tanium is seeking an AI Research Scientist Intern for Summer 2026. This role reports to our Staff Data Scientist leading AI design, prototyping, and experimentation across Tanium products and solutions. As an AI Research Scientist Intern, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging real-world problems, gain hands-on experience, and contribute to building intelligent systems that will shape the future of autonomous IT across endpoint management, exposure management, and security operations.
This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance several days each week in Durham, NC OR Emeryville, CA.
The hourly rate for this internship is $55 to $60 per hour. This hourly rate is an estimate for what Tanium will pay an intern. The actual rate offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to an hourly rate, interns will be eligible for a housing stipend, 401k matching, and a monthly allowance for communications reimbursement.
What You’ll Do
Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
On a mission. Together.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.
For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
Tanium is seeking an AI Research Scientist Intern for Summer 2026. This role reports to our Staff Data Scientist leading AI design, prototyping, and experimentation across Tanium products and solutions. As an AI Research Scientist Intern, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging real-world problems, gain hands-on experience, and contribute to building intelligent systems that will shape the future of autonomous IT across endpoint management, exposure management, and security operations.
This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance several days each week in Durham, NC OR Emeryville, CA.
The hourly rate for this internship is $55 to $60 per hour. This hourly rate is an estimate for what Tanium will pay an intern. The actual rate offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to an hourly rate, interns will be eligible for a housing stipend, 401k matching, and a monthly allowance for communications reimbursement.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to design and implement AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms that improve Tanium’s autonomous IT capabilities.
- Develop and evaluate ML models across a wide variety of use cases, including anomaly detection, threat identification, and performance optimization.
- Analyze large-scale endpoint data to extract meaningful insights and develop predictive models.
- Assist in building data pipelines to efficiently process and analyze endpoint data at scale.
- Conduct exploratory data analyses and visualizations to communicate findings and inform product development decisions.
- Document research, methodologies, and results to contribute to Tanium’s knowledge base.
- Stay up to date with the latest advancements in AI, ML, and endpoint management technologies.
- Strong foundation in machine learning, data analysis, and statistics.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and libraries (e.g., PyTorch, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, numpy, scipy, pandas).
- Experience working with large datasets.
- Knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
- Statistics
- Anomaly detection
- Machine learning (classification/regression)
- Internals of large language models (LLMs)
- Agentic AI
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex ideas clearly.
- Passion for technology, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems.
- Authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future
- Available to work full-time from June 8, 2024 to August 14, 2025
- A currently enrolled Master’s/ PhD degree candidate ideally studying Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related field with a 3.5 GPA
- Graduating Spring 2027 or Fall 2026
Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
On a mission. Together.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.
For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
Salary : $55 - $60