2027 Internship - Missile Defense Engineer/Scientist - Cross Domain Battle Management

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory•Laurel, MD

29d•Onsite

About The Position

The Cross-Domain Battle Management Group is seeking innovative and hard-working current undergraduates and graduate students for summer internships. Join us to work in an exciting and collaborative environment where we tackle challenging technical national security problems. Our group specializes in bridging the missile defense and space domains, as well as complex systems-of-systems engineering, with the objective of building capabilities across the services to increase and maintain the Nation’s superiority in missile defense.

Requirements

Pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Data Science, Statistics, or similar degrees with a minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale
Have a working knowledge of and development in MATLAB, Python, Java, C, and/or C++
Have a desire to apply engineering skills to complex problems
Have good written and verbal communication skills
Able to obtain an Interim Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain Secret level 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.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of configuration management tools
Experiential practice modeling and/or analyzing complex system behaviors

Responsibilities

Assisting staff in research and development activities that identify and fill gaps in the U.S. Missile Defense systems
Performing analysis of data from sensor and missile test events
Evaluating and assessing algorithms developed by group staff
Helping to develop and evaluate sophisticated Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning approaches for solving complex problems
Using advanced programming languages to develop and test technical solutions
Contributing to a group that values participation in collaborative teams and activities