Undergraduate Technical Intern - Detection Physics

Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryUNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE
Onsite

About The Position

PNNL is seeking undergraduate interns with a background in software analysis to support a primarily R&D focused program spanning large-scale simulation, device emulation, software analysis, and remediation. This role blends hands-on development with deep technical evaluation and offers the opportunity to contribute to technical writing and publication. This intern position will support scientific research in the broad area of data science, machine intelligence and autonomous learning and reasoning. A successful intern should have expertise in one or more of the following technical areas: optimization and optimization-based decision making, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and data analytics applied to modeling, diagnostics and control of cyber-physical systems, uncertainty quantification, system identification and model reduction, dynamical systems modeling and simulation, model predictive control, reinforcement learning algorithms, autonomous control and decision systems, and multi-agent systems. Specific research is required to expand library capability across other domains and content types (including text, video and audio content) including collaborative research in the continued development of the Python library. Example tasks include: Research to expand library capability across other domains and content types (including text, video and audio content) Collaborative research in the continued development of the Python library Prepare data sets for model training Test deep learning models to obtain accuracy Research deep learning topics Intern will be asked to contribute to project deliverables including contributing to monthly reports using the standard report template and to participate in weekly teleconferences as scheduled by the PNNL PM/PI.

Requirements

  • Candidates must have a high school diploma /GED or higher
  • Candidates must be degree-seeking undergraduate students enrolled at an accredited college or university
  • Candidates must be taking at least 6 credit hours and have an overall cumulative GPA of 2.50
  • U.S. Citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with one or more disassemblers (IDA, Binary Ninja, Ghidra)
  • Experience with one or more assembly languages (x86, ARM, RISCV, etc)
  • Comfortable with software development in compiled and scripting languages (C, C++, Rust, Python, etc)
  • Experience with object files, compilers, linkers, and loaders (ELF, DWARF, GDB, LLVM)
  • Experience with both static and dynamic program analysis techniques
  • Experience with reverse engineering firmware and/or embedded systems
  • Experience with emulation frameworks such as QEMU
  • Experience with software exploitation techniques and mitigations
  • Experience with attack surface mapping across systems and system-of-systems
  • Experience with networking protocols and analysis thereof
  • Experience with automation of vulnerability detection
  • Experience with utilizing emerging artificial intelligence technologies for vulnerability detection or automation thereof
  • Comfortable utilizing hypervisors and containers (VMware, Proxmox, Docker, etc)
  • Experience with CTFs including challenge development
  • Hardware Device Enumeration
  • Prior research experience, including technical writing, reports, or peer-reviewed publication

Responsibilities

  • Research to expand library capability across other domains and content types (including text, video and audio content)
  • Collaborative research in the continued development of the Python library
  • Prepare data sets for model training
  • Test deep learning models to obtain accuracy
  • Research deep learning topics
  • Contribute to project deliverables including contributing to monthly reports using the standard report template
  • Participate in weekly teleconferences as scheduled by the PNNL PM/PI

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • flexible work schedules
  • employee assistance program
  • business travel insurance
  • company funded pension plan
  • 401k savings plan
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