Intern, Cybersecurity

Rockwell Automation; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k

Flexible Work Schedule

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a cybersecurity intern to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of SIC products. The role is based in Milwaukee, WI or Chelmsford, MA, offering hands-on risk assessments, vulnerability management, and secure product development involvement.

You will develop Python tools, automate evidence collection, and integrate data across engineering and security platforms. Expected to collaborate with senior engineers and participate in OT/ICS security activities in a

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or advanced degree from an accredited college or university.
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required - we will not sponsor individuals for employment visas.

Responsibilities

• Perform Product Cybersecurity Risk Assessments.
• Help develop audit-ready assessment reports, compliance evidence, and maintaining end-to-end traceability between requirements, threats, controls, and verification artifacts.
• Support risk disposition, exception management, and remediation tracking workflows.
• Support Threat Modeling & Secure Product Development.
• Participate in architectural threat-modeling sessions across early concept through sustaining product lifecycles.
• Help evaluate hardware, firmware, software, and communication interfaces from an attacker’s perspective to identify assets, trust boundaries, and attack paths.
• Help engineering teams evaluate and resolve identified product security vulnerabilities.
• Analyze OT / ICS Security & Industrial Protocols.
• Hands-on exposure to OT and ICS architectures, PLCs, and defense-in-depth network segmentation.
• Test protocols with EtherNet/IP, CIP, and Modbus.
• Help with test harness execution, packet-level analysis, and security verification of industrial control devices.
• Manage Vulnerabilities & SBOMs; perform CVE analysis and remediation prioritization.
• Ingest SBOMs and correlate with vulnerabilities and device configurations.
• Build automated scripts and workflows to improve vulnerability evaluation, reporting, and SBOM data aggregation.
• Build Product Security Automation & Enterprise Integrations.
• Design Python-based tools and pipelines to automate evidence collection, data normalization, metrics generation, and reporting.
• Develop REST API integrations to query data across tools like ThreatModeler, Jama Connect, Jira, SAP; parse JSON/XML/YAML.

Skills

Cybersecurity fundamentals

Python

REST APIs

Lab/bench testing

Linux

Git/CI/CD

Kali Linux

Jira/Jama Connect

SBOM

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Engineering/Cybersecurity

Tools

Jira

Jama Connect

Git

Docker

Ansible

REST APIs

Job description

"Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better. We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!"

Job Description

We are looking for a cybersecurity intern who will increase the cybersecurity posture in SIC products. You will be located in Chelmsford, MA or Milwaukee, WI.

What You Will Do

• Perform Product Cybersecurity Risk Assessments
• Help conduct cybersecurity risk assessments for connected industrial control products, edge devices, and integrated solutions under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Support technical readiness activities for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
• Help develop audit-ready assessment reports, compliance evidence, and maintaining end-to-end traceability between requirements, threats, controls, and verification artifacts.
• Support risk disposition, exception management, and remediation tracking workflows.
• Support Threat Modeling & Secure Product Development.
• Participate in architectural threat-modeling sessions across early concept through sustaining product lifecycles.
• Help evaluate hardware, firmware, software, and communication interfaces from an attacker's perspective to identify assets, trust boundaries, and attack paths.
• Help engineering teams evaluate and resolve identified product security vulnerabilities.
• Analyze OT / ICS Security & Industrial Protocols
• Hands‑on exposure to Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control System (ICS) architectures, controller environments (PLCs), and defense‑in‑depth network segmentation.
• Test protocols with a focus on EtherNet/IP, Common Industrial Protocol (CIP), and Modbus.
• Help with test harness execution, packet‑level analysis, and security verification of industrial control devices in dedicated lab/testbed environments.
• Manage Vulnerabilities & Software Supply Chain (SBOM)
• Help with technical vulnerability assessment (CVE analysis) and remediation prioritization.
• Ingest and correlate Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) with known vulnerabilities, component trees, and device configurations.
• Build automated scripts and workflows to improve routine vulnerability evaluation, reporting, and SBOM data aggregation.
• Build Product Security Automation & Enterprise Integrations
• Design Python‑based tools, scripts, and pipelines to automate evidence collection, data normalization, metrics generation, and assessment reporting.
• Develop REST API integrations to query and correlate data across engineering and security platforms, including ThreatModeler, Jama Connect, Jira / Jira Align, SAP, and vulnerability/SBOM repositories. Parse, transform, and validate structured data formats, including JSON, XML, and YAML.
• Prototype AI‑Assisted Assessment Workflows
• Support prototyping and development of AI‑assisted security assessment capabilities to scale evaluations across a large product portfolio.
• Help build retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, system prompt libraries, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool connectors using engineering specifications.
• Help implement deterministic validation checks and auditability controls ensuring AI outputs strictly reference ground‑truth engineering evidence.
• Maintain Test Infrastructure & Tooling
• Support development and administration of Linux‑based product security test environments and toolchains. Use Git for version control, collaborative code reviews, and CI/CD workflow automation, with exposure to containerized environments (Docker) and configuration tools (Ansible).

The Essentials - You Will Have

• Pursuing a Bachelors or advanced degree from an accredited college or university
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required- we will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or anytime in the future.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 on a 4.0 scale
• Located within 50 miles (commuting distance) of our office in either Chelmsford, MA or Milwaukee, WI
• Expected graduation date is December 2025 or beyond
• Met on campus, national recruiting events, a Rockwell Automation-hosted event, or a targeted recruiting campaign
• 2 years of experience in Software programming
• Skilled in cybersecurity fundamentals
• Completed course work with C/C++, Assembly Language and Digital Logic
• Participated in Cyber Competitions
• Has experience working with logic analyzer, oscilloscope and voltage meter.
• Experience with Kali Linux, Metasploit.
• Familiar with OSINT
• Experience with Python and working with rest API's

What We Offer

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Flexible Work Schedule
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

For this role, the Base Salary Compensation is from $20-32/hourly. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, education, and experience.

Rockwell Automation's hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at [phone].

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