2026 Internship – Data Science – System Performance Evaluation

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory•Laurel, MD

1d•$23 - $48

About The Position

Do you enjoy manipulating and analyzing data to find data-driven solution to complex problems? Do you want to contribute to work that is crucial to maintaining our national security and strength? Are you continuously searching for new ways to improve and build upon your projects? If you are majoring in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science, we would love to have you join our team! We are seeking a data scientist intern to leverage their computational and analytical skills supporting multi-disciplinary teams on a variety of technological and methodological innovations to create analysis and assessment approaches for many defense and national security applications. You will be joining our team of hardworking engineers, software developers, data scientists, and analysts committed to advancing the state of the art in performance evaluation of the nation’s strategic weapons systems throughout their lifecycle. We believe in continually growing our capabilities, and cultivating a work environment that embraces innovation, integrity, trust, and teamwork. As a member of our team you will… Work with multi-disciplinary teams to develop data collection, processing, and analysis efforts to assess the performance of a number of systems supporting the Navy and Air Force. Develop Build models and simulations to describe data, predict events, and prescribe a course of action that directly reflect stakeholder’s needs across a variety of domains

Requirements

Are pursuing a degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
Have experience with or knowledge of Python and/or R
Have experience with developing extract, transfer, load processes for data quality pipelines, data science applications and dashboard tools, or statistical and machine learning methodologies for analysis
Are able to obtain Interim Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain a final Secret level security clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.
Have a minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale.

Nice To Haves

Have a Bachelor’s in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
Have experience with statistical analysis methodologies and design of experiments
Have experience with or knowledge of SQL and Data Science frameworks (such as Tensorflow, Sci-kit learn, Numpy, PyTorch, Matplotlib, or more)

Responsibilities

Work with multi-disciplinary teams to develop data collection, processing, and analysis efforts to assess the performance of a number of systems supporting the Navy and Air Force.
Develop Build models and simulations to describe data, predict events, and prescribe a course of action that directly reflect stakeholder’s needs across a variety of domains