Software Engineer Intern

Job Description

Your future in media starts here. The NBCUniversal Summer Internship Program is your chance to help shape what’s next in media and entertainment. Whether you’re supporting major news coverage, creating content for iconic brands, or contributing to innovative projects, you’ll bring your ideas, creativity, and perspective to make an impact throughout your internship.

Beyond your day-to-day role, you’ll take part in a thoughtfully designed program focused on career development, building your professional presence, and growing your workplace confidence. Through real-world experience and a community of fellow interns, you’ll explore what’s possible in this ever changing and exciting industry.

In addition to all of our internships being paid, we will also offer the following for our Summer 2027 interns:   

• Paid company holidays for full-time interns.  
• Robust networking, learning and development opportunities.
• Complimentary Peacock subscription during your internship.
• Free admission to Universal Parks to use during your internship.
• Access to mental health resources including counseling sessions.
• Financial assistance to offset expenses for transportation and housing may be available on a needs-based basis for eligible in-person interns. More details about eligibility for this assistance will be provided at the time of offer. 

Summer 2027 Program Details

Program Dates: June 7 – August 13, 2027

Time Commitment: 40 hours per week. Exact schedule to be determined based on business need. 

Format: Opportunities listed will require an intern to work from New York, NY.

Summer 2027 Recruitment Timeline

November 9 – December 4: Applications Open (may close early due to applicant volume)  

Mid November – Late December: First round video interviews  

Mid – Late January: Second round interviews 

Late January – February: Selected candidates receive offers 

To Apply:

• Submit a one-page resume that outlines your work experience, accomplishments, and your graduation month and year.
• Submit a cover letter that highlights your passion for NBCUniversal and your top areas of interest (opportunities listed below).
• Upload a transcript (unofficial transcripts are fine) that confirms your status as an actively enrolled student in a degree-granting program.

NBC News: More Americans watch NBC News than any news organization in the world. NBC News’ leading and award-winning television news broadcasts include TODAY, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, and Dateline NBC. The rapidly-growing NBC News Digital Group – including its streaming news services NBC News NOW and TODAY All Day – and the network’s award-winning original podcast and audio unit provide continuous content to consumers wherever they are, whenever they want it.

Areas of placement may include, but are not limited to:

• NBC News Mobile App Development: The team is responsible for designing, developing and testing NBC News’s flagship Android/iOS applications. The intern will be working on native mobile applications across all the NBC News brands and collaborate with developers, product and project management in shipping out features. The intern will be mentored by senior developers in the team and will be guided in their work. The intern will be working on various team initiatives following engineering best practices and writing quality code.
• NBC News Digital, Software Engineering: As a Software Engineer Intern, you will partner with the Product, Operations, Design, and Editorial teams to bring NBC News Digital content to life. You will be a significant influence on our product roadmap, bringing a technical and strategic perspective. You will work alongside fellow inspired developers in a fast-paced environment using technologies like Sass, React.js and GraphQL to help shape the future of digital news.

Media Group:The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.   

Areas of placement may include, but are not limited to:

• Global Video Engineering, Video-On-Demand SRE: The Jupiter SRE Team is a SRE Team that is embedded as part of the Video on Demand (VOD) team in the Global Video Engineering Group. The VOD team is a mix of software engineers and video engineers, that define and maintain the VOD workflow (The Path a piece of content follows to get on to the streaming Platform).  The SRE Team is responsible for deploying and maintaining availability of all Infrastructure and applications that are part of this workflow. Currently the VOD team uses a mixture of vendor and in house-built applications to implement this workflow. However, we are in the middle of an exciting transition bringing many of these workflows in-house and therefore this internship is an exciting opportunity to get real world exposure to all the work necessary to get content ready for streaming.
• Global Delivery, Quality Engineering: Our Global Quality Engineering Team is responsible for broad scale of quality by testing integrated systems and the client applications focused on delivering flawless experience for our customers. Our teams analyse requirements, create test plans and perform feature testing for Peacock & all of its propositions which includes backend integration of components and application front end across all the major device platforms. Our goal is to educate the interns on Software Development Life Cycle and importance of Software Quality Assurance.
• Video-On-Demand Engineering, Workflows: The VOD Engineering team is hiring a summer intern to join the VOD Workflows team, which builds and supports the automated media pipeline that delivers video-on-demand (VOD) content to NBCUniversal’s streaming platforms. The intern will work with engineers on business-critical video workflows and cloud services. They will gain exposure to how the team troubleshoots VOD workflows and playback and configures encoding for video, audio, and subtitles across platforms. Day to day, the work is scoped and guided: contributing to the pipeline, learning how media-processing and cloud delivery systems are operated, and helping improve them.
• Peacock, Live, Play, and DAI: Global Video Engineering’s Live, Play, and DAI group builds and runs the systems behind Peacock’s live events, video playback, and direct ad insertion. These are the paths viewers hit when they watch a live game, press play, and see an ad. The work is user-facing and revenue-critical, and it has to stay up while millions of people are watching at once. The group is organized as product engineering teams with embedded Site Reliability Engineers. Live covers event orchestration, encoding, and distribution. Play covers playback, and the services that get a stream to the device. DAI covers ad decisioning and inserting ads into live and on-demand video. SREs sit with those teams and own reliability across the stack: AWS, Kubernetes, networking, the application, and the telemetry that shows whether it is healthy. An intern will work with engineers who ship code and operate what they ship. They see how a live event is prepared and run, how an ad decision becomes a break in the stream, and how playback failures show up in metrics, logs, and traces. They will contribute to real systems with a focus on improving reliability, performance, observability, and automation that removes repetitive operational work.
• Global Streaming Tech, Live Play & DAI: Our Backend Video Engineering team builds and maintains the technology that powers video content and advertising delivery across NBCUniversal’s digital platforms. The team develops scalable backend services and APIs using Go (Golang), helping ensure reliable and efficient video experiences for audiences. Interns will gain hands-on exposure to backend software engineering while collaborating with experienced engineers and learning how large-scale video systems are designed, developed, tested, and maintained.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Must be actively enrolled in a degree-granting program at an accredited institution during the entire duration of the program. Spring 2027 graduates are not eligible for our Summer 2027 internship program. 
• Current class standing of sophomore or above (30 credits).
• Must be presently authorized to work for any employer in the United States and must not require work visa sponsorship from NBCUniversal now or in the future to retain authorization to work in the United States.
• Must be available to work 40 hours per week from June 7 – August 13, 2027.
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY.

For further clarification, candidates currently on any student or exchange visa (e.g. F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, J-1, M-1) are not eligible to apply unless they will be able to change or adjust to another status that grants work authorization without NBCUniversal sponsorship.

NBCUniversal is an E-Verify company, requiring all employees to have an active Social Security number. Any candidate receiving an internship offer must complete I-9 form with Social Security number within 3 days of hire.

Desired Characteristics:

• Students with class standing of junior or above preferred.
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above.
• Infrastructure as Code – Exposure to CloudFormation or Terraform etc.
• Proficiency with Python and/or Go, JavaScript, Java or related programming languages.
• Basic AI Knowledge – Exposure to generating Code and Docs with LLMs management tools.
• Knowledge or experience in testing Mobile applications on both Android and iOS platforms.
• Knowledge or experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Knowledge or experience in Automation and GenAI.
• Exposure to cloud systems, particularly AWS, or to workflow, ETL, or data-pipeline concepts, Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Git and a CI system, and comfort reading an existing codebase before changing it.
• Exposure to observability (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar) or to debugging with logs and metrics.
• Working knowledge of Linux and basic networking (DNS, HTTP, load balancers, TLS).
• Interest in video streaming, advertising technology, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Basic understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, and Git.

The hourly rate for student interns is $30.00 for roles within Media Group.

The hourly rate for student interns is $40.00 for roles within News Group.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

Compensation: 30 to 40 (USD) (HOURLY)