2026/2027 Endace Summer Internship Program

Our 2026 - 2027 intern program is now open for applications.

An internship with Endace provides you with the ideal start to your engineering career; you will have a meaningful, challenging, and commercially relevant project to work on, with support from both a mentor and project manager.

Over the course of your 12-week internship you will be exposed to all the operational facets of a high performing high-tech organisation and be paid well while you’re doing it. It is truly the best kick start to a tech career you could ask for.

We have 4 projects to offer this year all running from November 2026 to February 2027 at our R&D centre in Hamilton. To be eligible for anyone of our projects you must:

• Be enrolled in or recently graduated from a New Zealand tertiary education institution studying towards an undergraduate, honours, postgrad diploma/certificate or con-joint undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Development or Engineering
• Have an understanding of basic networking
• Have the right to live and work in New Zealand and be able to participate in the programme in Hamilton, New Zealand.

How to Apply

Simply click the apply now button in the project(s) you are interested in below, the application will ask you for a:

• CV showing details of projects you may have completed as part of your studies, and any work experience
• Copy of your academic transcript or equivalent
• Covering letter indicating:
• which project of projects you are applying for
• your key area of interest or specialisation, and
• a statement on what benefits your preferred project choice will have to your studies and future career path.

Applications will close Friday 25 September 2026. Following review, the shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview day 20 October on site at our Hamilton office.

For further details about our program or projects, or to submit further documents, please contact [email protected].

2026-2027 Projects

Integrate Minerva with Device42

Hamilton

An internship with Endace provides you with the ideal start to your engineering career; you will have a meaningful, challenging, and commercially relevant project to work on, with support from both a mentor and project manager.

Over the course of your 12-week internship you will be exposed to all the operational facets of a high performing high-tech organisation and be paid well while you’re doing it. It is truly the best kick start to a tech career you could ask for.

All our intern projects run from 16 November 2026 to 5 February 2027.

The Project

The Engineering team has an internal system that records available EndaceProbes and allows Endace employees to reserve devices, request and test traffic. This project will integrate our internal device reservation system with Device42 to reduce manual work for managing devices and double handling of information.

Candidates suited to this project should:

• Be enrolled in or recently graduated from a New Zealand tertiary education institution studying towards an undergraduate, honours, postgrad diploma/certificate or con-joint undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Development or Engineering
• Have an understanding of basic networking
• Have the right to live and work in New Zealand and be able to participate in the programme in Hamilton, New Zealand.
• Experience with Python
• Experience with HTTP and RESTful or REST-like APIs
• Familiarity developing for Linux based environments
• Familiarity with Bash and shell scripting
• Basic skills using Git version control

How to Apply

Click on the link below. You will be asked for;

• CV showing details of projects you may have completed as part of your studies, and any work experience
• Copy of your academic transcript or equivalent
• Covering letter indicating:
• which project of projects you are applying for
• your key area of interest or specialisation, and
• a statement on what benefits your preferred project choice will have to your studies and future career path.

Applications will close Friday 25 September 2026

Endace is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and to creating an inclusive environment for all.

FPGA Regression Test System in Python

Hamilton

An internship with Endace provides you with the ideal start to your engineering career; you will have a meaningful, challenging, and commercially relevant project to work on, with support from both a mentor and project manager.

Over the course of your 12-week internship you will be exposed to all the operational facets of a high performing high-tech organisation and be paid well while you’re doing it. It is truly the best kick start to a tech career you could ask for.

All our intern projects run from 16 November 2026 to 5 February 2027.

The Project

The current instability and functional gaps in TinderSynth are limiting regression coverage and introducing risk into the Card QA process, with downstream impacts on RoboNyx validation. This project will upgrade TinderSynth and create a unified web-interface to stablise the platform, restore full regression capability, and unify all Card QA components into a single interface to improve delivery.

Candidates for this project should:

• Be enrolled in or recently graduated from a New Zealand tertiary education institution studying towards an undergraduate, honours, postgrad diploma/certificate or con-joint undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Development or Engineering
• Have the right to live and work in New Zealand and be able to participate in the programme in Hamilton, New Zealand
• Have an understanding of basic networking
• Good knowledge of multiprocessing in Python
• Basic knowledge in HTML
• Familiarity with developing in Linux environments
• Basic knowledge in Bash shell scripting
• Basic skills in GIT version control.

How to Apply

Click on the link below. You will be asked for;

• CV showing details of projects you may have completed as part of your studies, and any work experience
• Copy of your academic transcript or equivalent
• Covering letter indicating:
• which project of projects you are applying for
• your key area of interest or specialisation, and
• a statement on what benefits your preferred project choice will have to your studies and future career path.

Applications will close Friday 25 September 2026

Endace is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and to creating an inclusive environment for all.

Automate Pre-Upgrade Check

Hamilton

An internship with Endace provides you with the ideal start to your engineering career; you will have a meaningful, challenging, and commercially relevant project to work on, with support from both a mentor and project manager.

Over the course of your 12-week internship you will be exposed to all the operational facets of a high performing high-tech organisation and be paid well while you’re doing it. It is truly the best kick start to a tech career you could ask for.

All our intern projects run from 16 November 2026 to 5 February 2027.

The Project

Pre-upgrade checks is a series of checks that the probe runs internally or via a hotfix just before an upgrade is performed. This project will explore options and build automation to cover manual execution of this test.

Candidates for this project should:

• Be enrolled in or recently graduated from a New Zealand tertiary education institution studying towards an undergraduate, honours, postgrad diploma/certificate or con-joint undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Development or Engineering
• Have the right to live and work in New Zealand and be able to participate in the programme in Hamilton, New Zealand.
• Have an understanding of basic networking
• Experience with Linux shell commands
• Experience with Python
• Basic skills using Git version control
• Good command over a frontend tool (e.g. HTML, JavaScript) is desirable
• Exposure to Robot is desirable but not required

How to Apply

Click on the link below. You will be asked for;

• CV showing details of projects you may have completed as part of your studies, and any work experience
• Copy of your academic transcript or equivalent
• Covering letter indicating:
• which project of projects you are applying for
• your key area of interest or specialisation, and
• a statement on what benefits your preferred project choice will have to your studies and future career path.

Applications will close Friday 25 September 2026

Endace is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and to creating an inclusive environment for all.

Cloud Packet Capture Performance

Hamilton

An internship with Endace provides you with the ideal start to your engineering career; you will have a meaningful, challenging, and commercially relevant project to work on, with support from both a mentor and project manager.

Over the course of your 12-week internship you will be exposed to all the operational facets of a high performing high-tech organisation and be paid well while you’re doing it. It is truly the best kick start to a tech career you could ask for.

All our intern projects run from 16 November 2026 to 5 February 2027.

The Project

This project aims to improve packet capture performance for Endace virtual appliances in public and private cloud environments by leveraging the Linux Express Data Path feature. All major Cloud provider and virtualisation drivers have support for XDP (Amazon, Azure, Google, Oracle, VMware, KVM virtio). Usage of this technology can improve performance and lower overhead of capturing real traffic in Cloud and virtualised environments.

Candidates for this project should:

• Be enrolled in or recently graduated from a New Zealand tertiary education institution studying towards an undergraduate, honours, postgrad diploma/certificate or con-joint undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Development or Engineering
• Have an understanding of basic networking
• Have the right to live and work in New Zealand and be able to participate in the programme in Hamilton, New Zealand.
• Familiarity with Linux shell commands
• Experience with C, Python
• Familiarity with networking and networking protocols
• Basic skills using Git version control
• Familiarity with Cloud or virtualisation environments desirable

How to Apply

Click on the link below. You will be asked for;

• CV showing details of projects you may have completed as part of your studies, and any work experience
• Copy of your academic transcript or equivalent
• Covering letter indicating:
• which project of projects you are applying for
• your key area of interest or specialisation, and
• a statement on what benefits your preferred project choice will have to your studies and future career path.

Applications will close Friday 25 September 2026

Endace is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and to creating an inclusive environment for all.

You will become a sought after graduate with meaningful experience. We have a well run program with a great team to help you achieve your goals. Free Friday lunches and a great coffee machine are an added bonus!