PhD Software Security Internship - 2026 summer placement
Cambridge Consultants
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About this role
Overview This internship focuses on advanced defence and security technology development. The role is suited to a PhD-level researcher with strong technical grounding in software security, cyber technologies, and embedded or distributed systems. This placement can be between 3- and 6-months duration with a flexible start date, and is suitable for PhD students who have completed their first year of study. There is no deadline for this role, as we recruit on a rolling basis. Once the position is …
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Cambridge Consultants
Cambridge Consultants hires students into technology-focused teams where software, data, infrastructure, product thinking, reliability, and user impact often matter.
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Preparing for Cambridge Consultants
Good preparation includes project evidence, curiosity, debugging examples, teamwork, and being able to explain technical choices clearly.
- Talk through one project in terms of problem, trade-offs, result, and what you would improve.
- Be ready to explain code or data decisions without jargon.
- Connect technical work to users, reliability, security, or business value.
