Software Engineering Graduate Intern

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Job Description:

The team is charged with designing, building, and securing modern software systems that address sponsors' most critical mission challenges. This is an opportunity for software engineers who are highly motivated, innovative, and proactive. The role provides challenging opportunities to apply and expand skills in modern software engineering practices and AI-enabled development techniques. Areas of interest include cloud-native development, DevSecOps, automation and CI/CD, data-intensive and AI-enabled systems.

Job Responsibilities:

Write clean, maintainable code and participate in established development processes (version control, code review, documentation, and issue tracking) Create and update technical documentation (setup steps and implementation notes). Assist with integrating AI models into existing systems, including deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization. Collaborate within a cross-disciplinary team to achieve project goals.

Basic Qualifications:

Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking Master's or PhD program in computer science or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship. 2+ years of demonstrated software development experience with modern software engineering practices Foundational understanding of AI/ML concepts such as supervised/unsupervised learning, model training and evaluation. Experience with at least one common ML or deep learning framework (for example, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras). Ability to work in Agile development environments with strong documentation practices

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience building AI applications (for example, training a model and exposing it via an API or integrating it into a user-facing application). Familiarity with cloud platforms and services (Azure, AWS, or GCP) for AI/ML workloads and application deployment. Demonstrated interest in serving the public through previous work experience, volunteer activities, or other relevant engagements. This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): None Salary compensation range and midpoint: $46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500

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