2026 Intern, Security Research Engineer (Summer)

Samsung Research America Internship • Mountain View, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

As part of the Knox Security team in the Enterprise Security and Innovations lab at SRA, security research engineers identify and solve difficult security challenges involving Samsung’s mobile and enterprise laptop products. Team members are typically expert in one or more specialties, and can expect to learn more about other areas from exposure to the rest. Broad areas of work include proposing and prototyping novel security features, researching and architecting hardware-based and software security mechanisms, performing vulnerability assessments, analyzing reported exploits and suggesting ways to strengthen security, and developing automated tools for security analysis of code and binaries.
Our team seeks candidates for a research internship to work on security technologies on our Knox Android mobile devices with one or more of the following broad responsibilities:
Propose, design, and prototype new security features for the Samsung Android platform in areas such as systems security, malware analysis, leveraging AI for security, and securing on-device AI from attacks.
Build and improve tools for automated security analysis of system software on Samsung Android mobile devices, such as bootloaders, ARM TrustZone, Android framework internals, and hypervisors.
Candidates have flexibility in choosing their area of work, analysis techniques, and targets. We encourage work during the internship to be patented and/or published in academic conferences as applicable.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Background in security with specialization in at least one of the following areas:
• Systems security with knowledge of ARM-based Android, Linux kernel, Trusted execution environments such as ARM TrustZone, or Embedded systems and firmware
• Program analysis techniques such as Fuzz testing, Reverse engineering, Symbolic execution, Vulnerability discovery, or Exploit development
• AI and security: Securing AI on-device, Leveraging AI for security (e.g., automated vulnerability assessment, detection of malicious behavior)
• Malware analysis, triage and detection

Responsibilities

• Propose, design, and prototype new security features for the Samsung Android platform in areas such as systems security, malware analysis, leveraging AI for security, and securing on-device AI from attacks.
• Build and improve tools for automated security analysis of system software on Samsung Android mobile devices, such as bootloaders, ARM TrustZone, Android framework internals, and hypervisors.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees