Software Engineering Internships - Media Tech Summer 2025

Company Description

See yourself at NBCU! Be a part of our intern community, a diverse group of curious and passionate trailblazers who we believe are the future of our industry.  

The NBCUniversal Internship Program allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to big projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day.  

In addition to all of our internships being paid, we will also offer the following for our Summer 2025 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 2025 Recruitment Timeline:   

September 16 – October 4: Applications Open (may close early due to applicant volume)  

Mid-September – Late October: First round video interviews   

Early to mid-November: Second round interviews  

Late November: Selected candidates receive offers  

Job Description

Summer 2025 Internship Program: 

• Applications Close: October 4th at 11:59pm ET. Pro Tip: Submit your application as soon as possible – applications could close earlier due to applicant volume!  
• Program Dates: June 2 – August 8, 2025 
• Time Commitment: 40 hours per week. Exact schedule to be determined based on business need.  
• Format: Opportunities listed will be fully virtual. 

To Apply: 

• Submit a one-page resume that outlines your work experience, accomplishments, and your graduation month and year. 
• Optional: submit a cover letter that highlights your passion for NBCUniversal, the locations (listed below) you are open to for internships, 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. 
   

Here at NBCU, we strive to be on the forefront of leading-edge technology and are seeking a savvy troop of technologists we call Media Tech Interns.   

Our program exposes students to technical opportunities across NBCUniversal’s Operations & Technology organizations and serves as a main pipeline into our Rotational Associate Programs. As a NBCUniversal Media Tech Intern, you will gain hands-on experience, allowing you to apply your classroom knowledge to practical situations. We offer a 2 day in-person orientation in our NY office where we bring all interns together to meet each other and various business leaders.   

Students will experience firsthand how one of the largest media and entertainment companies in the world operates and delivers strategic, innovative solutions. 

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

• Production Application Engineering: The Production Application Engineering team is partnering with several business units internally to develop a virtual production control room (VPCR) platform to support elastic production needs across the Local Stations and News Group.  The platform is expanding with the launch of several station-based control rooms and the team is improving the user experience by moving manual validation of systems to automated processes to ensure a uniform user experience from show to show. The intern will support with use Vendor SDKs and APIs to query system status and forward "readiness state" to monitoring tools and developing API runbooks to automate actions currently undertaken manually. 

• Data & Analytics Engineering: The Corporate Technology team supports all our core applications for Finance, HR and Legal departments for NBCU. SAP Data and Analytics engineering team is responsible for design, development and implementation of all SAP Analytics solutions that include technologies like SAP BW, Analysis for Office, EPM, BOBJ, SAC, MDG, Data services and many other technologies. The intern will support the existing implementation projects, daily operational support and project management tasks. The intern will also become more familiar with the SAP technology.  

• Site Reliability, Incident Management: In Service Management Operations, we partner and support our engineering teams and business stakeholders via Major Incident, Change, and Problem Management. We help teams restore service on business impacting incidents through focused and coordinated triage, prevent impacting events from occurring through problem and change management, and implement continuous service improvement. Our goal is to assist through these best practices to reduce risk and improve support for the business. We are seeking a Media Tech Intern to help oversee improvement of a few key services in the organization related to policies, procedures, and/or processes and document how they improve service to the business. Focus areas for this project will be to identify opportunities related to repeat incidents, manual tasks, and low risk changes. This person will work with key personnel to prioritize and organize the opportunities, help develop, test and deploy though automation or AI-related tools, and communicate to leadership how services will be improved. 

• PE Workplace Technology, Digital ProdDelivery: Are you passionate about technology and eager to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic and innovative environment? NBCUniversal is looking for a motivated Collaboration Engineering Intern to join our Enterprise Engineering team. This internship provides a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge Enterprise Collaboration Tools and contribute to important projects that span across all areas of our business. Collaboration Engineering focuses on Enterprise Collaboration Tools like Microsoft, Slack, Adobe, Smartsheet, Docusign and more! We work with every team at NBCU so there is exposure across all areas of the business. Currently, we are working on a large project to increase collaboration between NBCU, Comcast, Sky and UDX. 

• Enterprise Engineering, Scheduling & Finance: As part of the Enterprise Engineering organization, we work closely with various teams to drive innovation and efficiency. The intern will gain valuable experience and exposure through: Product Collaboration: Engaging with the product team to understand and gather requirements. Infrastructure Development: Collaborating with the infrastructure team to support development efforts. Business Solutions: Presenting demos and solutions to business users, showcasing the results and impact of their work. This role will provide comprehensive exposure to different teams and processes, offering a well-rounded understanding of how our organization functions and contributes to its goals. 

• Global Network & Distribution, Architecture & Engineering: Operations & Technology - Engineering: architecture, engineering, deploying, and operating the networked fleet for Sports, Telemundo, DreamWorks, Broadcast, O&T, News, and IT. Day-to-day work with the NetDevOps team, having intimate exposure to network automation and reliability (observability). Continuously building and expanding NBC U's automation capabilities to enable the network community to be able to architecture, engineering, deploying, and operating the network at scale and at speed.  

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: 

• Must be actively enrolled in a degree-granting program at an accredited institution during the entire duration of the program (June 2025 through August 2025). May 2025 graduates are not eligible for our Summer 2025 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 working from a location within a U.S. state during all hours worked. 

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. 
• Basic scripting (Powershell or Bash), usage of RESTful APIs and/or SDKs, GOlang or Python programming languages. 
• Ability to troubleshoot/debug code and automation workflows to identify and resolve system issues. 
• Basic understanding of finance or HR domain. 
• Understanding of SQL coding and familiarity with Excel. 
• Currently working on a B.S. degree in an Information Technology related technical discipline or equivalent experience. 
• Experience with or familiarity with programming languages. 
• Experience with or familiarity with Automation tools or processes. 
• Proficiency in PowerPoint and data visualization tools. 
• Familiarity with Python, node.js, vue.js, java, HTML, some networking, databases, CI/CD. 

The hourly rate for undergraduate student interns is $30.00 

The hourly rate for graduate student interns is $30.00 

The hourly rate for MBA student interns is $30.00 

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