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Cork, Éire / Ireland
Onsite
TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.
At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.
AI Fearlessly.
We hire for capability and potential — not credentials alone. At TrendAI, you get real access: to senior people, to genuinely hard problems, and to work that actually moves things forward. You will have a voice, an opinion, and the freedom to use both and to be the best part of yourself.
TrendAI is on a deliberate path to become a fully AI Native company. This means rebuilding how we think, how we build, and how we operate, with AI at the foundation rather than bolted on at the edges.
If you join now, you are not walking into something already figured out — you are joining at the moment it is being built. The skills you develop here will make you genuinely formidable in one of the most in-demand areas in tech. The people who join at this stage will have had a hand in shaping what TrendAI becomes. That is a rare thing.
This is a paid 8-month work placement where you will join TrendAI's Applied AI Engineering team and contribute to real products with real users — writing code, running experiments, and shipping things that matter. You will have a defined project to own, structured support from experienced engineers and business professionals, and a mentor throughout your placement.
You will also take part in our Career Success Ready Programme — designed to support you and to set you up for a successful career, not just to get through the placement.
We have a strong track record of converting placements into graduate roles. Over the last five years, 82% of our intern graduates have gone on to join us permanently. There may also be opportunities to travel to other European offices and work with colleagues from across the globe — we have 27 different nationalities in our Cork Operations Centre.
No two placements look exactly the same. We will shape your experience around where you are strongest and where you want to grow. You might work across:
AI & orchestration: Python · LangChain · LangGraph · Azure OpenAI · Anthropic API
Data & retrieval: PostgreSQL / pgvector · pandas · NumPy · SQL
Backend & infra: FastAPI · Docker · GitHub Actions · Azure Cloud
Dev tools: VS Code · GitHub Copilot · Claude Code · Git
Collaboration: Jira · Confluence · Microsoft Teams
If you want a placement where you will actually build things, grow fast, and work on technology that matters — TrendAI is for you.
At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. We like to have fun while taking our culture seriously. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to this regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, nationality, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or veteran status. We do not allow discrimination or harassment of any kind.
