New Balance Internships 2027: Programs, Pay and How to Apply

New Balance doesn't run one big, publicly advertised internship class the way a lot of large employers do. It posts roles individually as teams need them, and right now ApplyBolt's live board shows one open posting: a Sports Research Engineer Intern based at the company's Sports Research Lab in Brighton, Massachusetts. If you're looking for a New Balance internship for 2027, the postings trickle out rather than arrive in one wave, so checking back matters more than waiting for an announcement.

That makes New Balance a different kind of search than a Big Tech or Big 4 internship hunt. There's no fixed application window to circle on a calendar. There's a careers site to check regularly and a live board that updates when something new goes up.

New Balance at a glance

What New Balance actually does

New Balance is an athletic footwear and apparel company, and one of the few in its category that still manufactures some product domestically in the US and UK alongside overseas production. That domestic manufacturing footprint is part of how the company markets itself against competitors that build exclusively overseas. New Balance also owns Warrior Sports and Brine, and it sponsors the NBA, New York Road Runners and a number of international soccer clubs. It stayed privately held while most of its footwear peers went public, which is part of why it doesn't publish the same level of recruiting detail that a public company's investor relations page tends to surface.

The company has also been leaning into its design credibility. It named Aime Leon Dore founder Teddy Santis creative director of a premium sneaker line, a move that raised its profile in streetwear and fashion circles well beyond the running-shoe crowd. It has also set a public sustainability target of reaching 100 percent renewable electricity for its own operations by 2025. Neither fact tells you anything about internship openings directly, but they're useful context if you're deciding whether New Balance fits the kind of consumer brand you want on your resume.

The one posting currently open, and what it tells you

The live Sports Research Engineer Intern posting sits inside New Balance's Sports Research Lab, the team that studies biomechanics and materials to inform shoe and apparel design. It's tagged as an AI/ML/data role on ApplyBolt's board, which is a useful signal on its own: New Balance's technical internships lean toward applied research and data work that feeds directly into product decisions, not generic corporate IT support. If you're picturing an internship at an athletic brand as pure marketing or retail, roles like this one are the reminder that a shoe company runs real engineering underneath the sneakers.

Because New Balance posts one role at a time rather than opening a named class, don't assume this exact posting will still be live by the time you read this, and don't assume it's the only kind of internship the company will ever run. Business, design and merchandising internships show up too, just not on a predictable public calendar.

What background you need

It depends entirely on the specific posting, since New Balance doesn't publish one blanket requirement across internship types. A research or engineering-tagged role, like the current Sports Research Lab posting, wants a technical background: think mechanical engineering, biomechanics, data science or a related field, plus comfort working with real testing data. Business-side internships, when they appear, tend to be more flexible on major but still expect genuine interest in athletic product, retail or brand work rather than a generic resume sent to every consumer company on the list.

Pay and how to apply

New Balance hasn't published a standard intern pay rate, and the live posting doesn't list one either. Internships at large consumer brands commonly pay hourly, with the number varying by role, location and whether the position is technical or business-facing. Apply directly through New Balance's careers site, and treat a live posting as a short window: rolling postings at individual-role companies tend to close once a strong pool of applicants comes in, not on a fixed deadline months out.

For how a rolling, individual-posting company like New Balance compares to a scheduled corporate internship class, see our summer 2027 internships guide, or look at Poshmark's internship pattern, another consumer brand that hires the same way. If a research or engineering track interests you more broadly, browse 2027 hardware engineering internships.