Biotech Software Engineer Intern Jobs in Washington, DC

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 09-01-2026
Job Description
Visa's Internship Program provides an immersive, 12-week journey where you'll work on impactful projects that drive Visa's mission forward. As a Visa intern, you'll build valuable connections across the organization, sharpen your communication and business acumen, and gain hands-on experience in a dynamic, global environment.
Throughout the program, you'll have exclusive access to interactive workshops and learning sessions designed to deepen your expertise, expand your industry knowledge, and elevate your professional skillset. You won't just be learning, you'll be contributing, collaborating, and innovating every step of the way. In addition to professional development, you'll enjoy a variety of intern social events that foster community, connection, and fun throughout the summer.
The experience culminates in an exciting final presentation, where you'll showcase your project achievements, share key insights, and present your recommendations to Visa's leaders and stakeholders. This is your chance to demonstrate your business impact, highlight your personal growth, and align your work with Visa's vision for the future.
Visa Cybersecurity
Visa's Cybersecurity team provides enterprise-wide, risk-based cybersecurity policies, practices, and solutions to protect Visa's systems and data from internal and external threats. To protect Visa's assets in this dynamic threat landscape, they are deploying new cyber-security tools, collaborating across industries, and taking a proactive approach to monitoring the cyberspace beyond the Visa network.
Imagine working for one of the pioneers in the payment technology space. The kind of company that's been setting the bar for the way people pay and get paid for more than 50 years, and continues to innovate on a global scale. Now imagine that company is less than 10,000 employees worldwide, small enough that you'll actually have an impact and do some amazing things. Sounds pretty awesome. Well, that company exists and it's Visa.
About Us
As part of Cyber Threat Analytics and Research team (CTAR) , you will leverage cutting-edge technologies to perform statistical profiling, inference, classification, clustering and predictive analysis. As a key member of the technical team, you will create and implement sophisticated machine learning models to help derive new insights to defend against cyber-attacks. You will be working with a large variety of data sets, cutting-edge security technologies, and world-class operation teams to create awesome analytics for security and other business units.
Your responsibilities include:

• Analyze cyber event logs using Spark and big data technologies and develop deeper insights into products using advanced statistical methods
• Devise and implement deep learning models for building user behavior profiles. This includes data acquisition, feature engineering, model development, and deployment.
• Leverage GenAI to build chatbot integrated with RAG, MCP servers, context engineering and momery management for improving Cyber investigation efficiency
• As a member of the CTAR team, you will work closely with other data scientists and data engineers to build, design, engineer, and develop analytical software and services that deliver security functionality and improve security efficiency and capabilities through automation.
• Assist in shaping overall direction, life-cycle management, and leadership for Information Security architecture and technology related to Visa.
• Communicate clean and persuasive data directly to end users, leadership, and other stakeholders, technical and non-technical.

All Visa roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications

• Students pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, with a graduation date in December 2027-August 2028
• Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications that demonstrate professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one programming language or technology including, but not limited, to Java, C/C++, C#, .NET, Python, Javascript, HTML, SQL
• Experience with Write utilities / automation tools using Selenium, Java, REST, Python, Groovy, and more
• Experience in developing Agentic Solution
• Machine learning, deep learning, AI models, and data science background is great
• Experience with Gen AI/LLM
• Experience with large datasets using tools and Hadoop, Spark, or Hive
• Familiarity with software testing principles
• Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies
• Experience or knowledge in working with both RDBMS (preferably MySQL) and NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra).
• Knowledge of Git for version control
• Strong ability to collaborate
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Good team player and excellent interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated hourly range for a new hire into this position is $41.00 to $48.00 which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
Work Authorization: Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position. Future sponsorship will not be considered.
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Visa is an EEO Employer
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law. Visa_Talent_Portal