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Cisco Development Organization

Engineering Intern Program

If technology is your passion, Cisco may be the place for you. As a Cisco engineer intern, you can help develop network technology in voice, security, switching, routing, storage, wireless, and network management systems, creating products and solutions that affect home, business, education, and government networks. These positions allow students to explore the Cisco culture while they work on products currently in development.

Software Engineer Intern

Hardware Engineer Intern

Hardware Test Co-op

Cisco Choice Intern Program

Imagine having the opportunity to evolve tomorrow's Internet technology today. A select number of top university students will do just that as they put their many study hours, endless creativity, and dreams to work in developing technology that will change the way people work, live, play, and learn.

Software Engineer Intern - Undergraduate

Software Engineer Intern - Graduate

Product Marketing Manager Intern - MBA

Service Solutions Programs

Networks function better when services, together with products, create solutions that align to business needs and opportunities. The collaboration that joins Cisco services with skilled partners and customers delivers the best results that intelligently enable networks and applications, and benefit the people who use them.

Cisco Services Lab Operations Co-op

As a lab operations co-op, you will build networks in technical support labs, using Cisco equipment to re-create and solve customer problems.

The Customer Advocacy Lab Operations (CALO) maintains all of the Customer Advocacy labs on the Boxborough (Boston), MA; RTP (Raleigh), NC; Richardson (Dallas), TX & San Jose (San Francisco), CA campuses, as well as numerous remote labs.

Human Resources (HRLP)

Cisco values HR professionals as business leaders who increase shareholder value. We employ MBA and MS interns across a range of HR functions to help provide short- and long-term planning, decision making, and strategic analysis and support. In conjunction with our business partners, Cisco HR members improve organizational effectiveness and productivity across the firm. At the corporate level, Cisco employs HR interns in functions such as Staffing and Recruiting, International Mobility, Human Resource Management Systems, Compensation, and Employee Relations. Our internships serve as a pipeline for filling the full-time program positions.

Human Resources Intern

Interns in the Human Resources Leadership Development Program (HRLP) will spend 10-15 weeks working on projects which add significant value to Cisco.

The HRLP internship program is designed for the participant to gain:

Experience: HRLP interns will be placed into a core HR role based on their area of interest and business need. They will drive a team-based business strategy project.

Exposure: Located at corporate headquarters in San Jose, California, interns will work and interact with senior leadership, managers, cross-functional teams, and other HRLP interns. To conclude the internship experience, HRLP participants will present their business strategy project analysis and recommendations to senior HR leadership.

Education: In addition to hands-on projects, interns are strongly encouraged to participate in personal development workshops, training, and business seminars often led by world-class subject matter experts.

Please note that the HRLP Intern experience is the primary method for selection into the HRLP full time program.

Finance Organization

Cisco’s Finance organization is a catalyst for leading business transformation to maximize company performance. As a key partner of Operations and the business, we ensure Cisco has the scale, flexibility and ability to grow infinitely. We are looking for talented individuals with strong communication and organization skills who thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

The majority of internship opportunities in Finance are summer positions, with interviews taking place in the spring. Please continue to check the website for updates by clicking on the blue box to the right that says, “We are hiring. Apply Here”. Scroll down to “U.S. & Canada Finance MBA Intern” and click on the position of interest.

MBA Intern

The Finance MBA Internship program serves as our pipeline for filling full time positions. Our 10-12 week structured program offers a supported work experience, education of Cisco’s values, products, and culture, as well as exposure to key Finance executives and managers.

Global Supply Chain Management

Global Supply Chain is responsible for taking Cisco innovation from the drawing board to the customer. Whether it’s complex, high-end, configure-to-order products or high-volume commercial goods, we turn ideas into solutions. As part of the Operations, Processes, and Systems team, we are a global organization with employees in more than 17 countries.

The GSCM team has raised the bar for supply chain excellence, but now a new and even more challenging era has begun as we must continue to maintain delivery, improve quality and accelerate supply chain velocity, even as Cisco expands into new technologies, and geographies. In addition, we play an important role in leading Cisco's Green and social responsibility initiatives for our customers and partners. It’s an exciting time to be on the GSCM team as we optimize the supply chain across multiple dimensions and stay ahead of the increasing and changing marketplace.

Global Supply Chain Intern

The majority of Global Supply Chain Management internship opportunities are summer positions, with interviews taking place in the spring. Please continue to check our website for additions by clicking the blue box to the right that says, “We are hiring. Apply Here”. Scroll down to U.S.& Canada Global Supply Chain Management, and click on the intern position of interest.

Information Technology

Consider an internship with Cisco Information Technology, where we are the company's first and best customer. Join the team that is at the forefront of the latest technology from the world's networking leader, a team that is a strategic partner with the company creating the enterprise network of the future.

The majority of the internship opportunities are summer positions, with interviews taking place in the spring. Please continue to check the website for more information on these positions, by clicking the blue box to the right that says, “We are hiring. Apply Here”. Scroll down to U.S./Canada Information Technology (Analyst Intern or Engineer Intern) and click on the position of interest.

Information Technology Analyst Intern

The IT Analyst Intern will work cross-functionally with key stakeholders in both the Information Technology and Business teams to create effective business process and systems process maps.

Information Technology Engineer Intern

The IT Engineer will partner with their team to deliver high-quality, robust and scalable software systems while learning and growing as individuals. This is an opportunity to work with a project manager, setting day-to-day goals and providing work direction. Interfaces with the IT team, IT Analysts and business partners.

Other Organizations

• Corporate Affairs
• Legal Department
• Corporate Communications
• Customer Service and Support Organization

Corporate Affairs

Cisco Networking Academy

Gain hands-on experience in Internetworking technology today and apply what you’ve learned. Jump-start your career in the Internetworking Industry as a Technical Support Specialist Intern for the Networking Academy.

Technical Support Specialist Intern

As a Technical Support Specialist Intern, you will provide support assistance to an educational program with a worldwide footprint touching more than 160 countries globally. This six-month internship focuses on the development and recommendation of guidelines for use in Networking Academy classrooms throughout the world. Specifically, you will concentrate on validating the reliability of specific hardware and software combinations used for the hands-on lab components of the CCNA curriculum. Additionally, you will provide technical support through the Networking Academy Support Desk. As a member of the technical team, your role will be to assist and resolve technical case tickets submitted through the Networking Academy’s Support Desk.

Legal Department

It's an exciting time to work at Cisco. Every day we connect people to the network and make it come to life by experiencing the Human Network. Whether it's using e-learning to educate students far from city centers or downloading the entire Library of Congress in seconds, our networking technology has not only revolutionized the way people do things, but also who they are. Cisco is entering an exciting new era. The Legal Department is dynamic and growing, and we have a unique opportunity for current students to complete a non-traditional internship in our Legal Department to gain exposure and experience in a corporate Legal environment.

The majority of Legal internship opportunities are summer positions, with interviews taking place in the spring. Please continue to check the website for additions by clicking the blue box to the right that says, “We are hiring. Apply Here”. Scroll down to U.S. & Canada Legal and click on the intern position of interest.

Legal Intern

Why Cisco Legal? Our General Counsel has set the vision for a world class legal department to help revolutionize how we work, live, and play, while supporting our internal clients. Legal Interns will have a unique opportunity to learn, experience, and engage in the use of the latest cutting edge technologies while obtaining valuable practical in-house legal experience with exposure to issues in this dynamic marketplace. Come see how the practice of law is applied in a real world business environment in the areas of intellectual property, global compliance, contracts, privacy, knowledge management, and legal technology.

Corporate Communications

Last year, our newly established Corporate Communications team began reshaping the perception of Cisco and the role of the network by creating a truly integrated communications strategy. During their first year as a team, they made great strides toward this goal, as evidenced by the positive external recognition of the "Network as the Platform" Cisco strategy, along with continued innovation in how Cisco leads communications and collaboration across its internal and external constituents.

Your talent and hard work can help the Cisco’s Corporate Communications team further its goal in creating a world class, integrated corporate communications function. You will help drive the conversations, both internally and externally, that support Cisco’s vision and aspirations and lead the industry in the use of collaboration and experience technologies to simplify, expedite and amplify Cisco’s communications strategy.

Corporate Communications Internships

The Corporate Communications (Corp Comm) organization is looking for college students to support several communications functions at Cisco. These roles have ownership to develop strategy, messaging and collaborative tools for the business. Key responsibilities could include supporting senior executives, media relations, analyst relations, event planning, project management, special writing assignments, logistics support, web design/development, video production and presentation support. The candidate must be detail-oriented, have the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment, have strong communications and organizational skills and be a team player. This is an excellent opportunity for a college student to be exposed to a career in corporate communications in a Fortune 100 environment. Click on the position name to learn more or apply.

Customer Service and Support Organization

Field Sales Relationship Manager Internship

This position is available to students pursuing their undergraduate degree or an MBA degree. This individual is the owner of a large variety of account exposing them to direct Cisco customers. Acting as the primary contact for customer field escalations you will be responsible for managing high visibility accounts and problem solving on a daily basis. This team orientated role involves partnering with a large cross section of internal Cisco groups providing insight into trending. There is always a focus on proactive measures to promote productivity increase with the empowerment to drive process improvements. Click on the position name to learn more or apply.

Project Manager Internship

This position is available to students pursuing their undergraduate degree. This role is empowered to improve operations performance that drive cost optimizations. This leader is responsible for establishing and implementing a globally consistent management methodology. This role will follow projects end to end by establishing the processes and tracking for implementation in the area of Customer facing case resolution and customer satisfaction performance metrics. Click on the position name to learn more or apply.