Staff Research Scientist, Intern - PhD Quantum Computing - Summer 2026

Visa unspecified • Foster Cityintern

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. 

Our Team

Visa Research is a research organization part of the company's effort on expanding its technology research capabilities globally. We conduct both applied and fundamental research while engaging with the company's technology and product teams, business partners, academics, and governments, to explore and develop technologies that are critical to the payments industry in the future.

Artificial Intelligence

Our mission at the Artificial Intelligence team is to unlock the hidden value in these massive high-quality financial data and decode the language of transactions to drive innovation in the payment industry and beyond. We conduct applied research in machine learning and related fields to deliver unique insights and capabilities to our partners and clients to help them grow their businesses. Our research areas include deep learning applications in financial data, supervised and unsupervised representation learning, predictive modeling for fraud and risk management, consumer behavior modeling, recommendation systems, payment foundational models, scalable machine learning systems, privacy preserving data analytics, and related fields.

Quantum Computing and Information

Our mission at the Quantum Computing and Information team is to harness the transformative potential of quantum technologies to drive breakthroughs in computation, security, and data-driven innovation for the payment industry and beyond. We conduct applied research in quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, quantum optimization, and quantum cryptography to tackle complex challenges in fraud detection, risk modeling, secure transactions, and large-scale financial data analysis. Through this research, we strive to deliver capabilities beyond the reach of classical methods, enabling Visa, our partners, and our clients to lead in efficiency, security, scalability, and innovation across global payments.