2024 Data Platforms and Architectures Undergraduate Intern

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.

At Aerospace, we are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace for all employees to share in our common passion and aspiration – to carry out a mission much bigger than ourselves.

Internship conversion position for the Data Platforms and Architecture Department.  This position will be located at in partially remotely with some onsite work in Chantilly, VA.

The Data Platforms and Architectures Department develops cloud-based, scalable, and resilient data analysis pipelines, tools and platforms to enable the full exploitation of historical and streaming data sets for a variety of civil and national security space customers. Do you want to do cutting edge data engineering and do innovative work on the open-source data processing frameworks with the ability to intelligently scale? Join us as a Cloud Native Software Developer on the Data Platforms and Architectures Department team in The Aerospace Corporation!

Work Model:
This position will be a hybrid work model and offer partially remote with some onsite work required in Chantilly, VA.

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Supporting the National Security, United States Space Force, DoD, and commercial space enterprise customers through the identification, prototyping, assessment, and implementation of cutting-edge data engineering technologies in a cloud-native environment.
• Collaborating with technical subject matter experts and interdisciplinary teams to conceive, design, and develop enterprise data analysis pipelines and applications.
• Learning by doing, acquiring expertise in emerging technologies to further personal and organizational breadth of knowledge in an academic environment where self-enrichment, training, and mentorship is fundamental.
• Proposing innovative research and development projects, leading research and proof-of-concept development as the principal investigator.
• Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned as needed.

What Corporate Skills You’ll Bring 

• · Strong written and oral communication skills 
• · Must work well in a team environment 
• · Possess organizational, time management and project management skills 
• · Demonstrate flexibility and ability to adapt to changing organizational need 
• · Interpersonal skills to coordinate efforts and work with other internal and external organizations 

What You Need to be Successful 

Minimum Requirements: 

• Pursuing a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or related discipline from an accredited college/university program
• Availability to work full-time for a minimum of 10 weeks outside of university term and ability to return to a degree program full-time after completion of the internship.
• Minimum GPA of 3.0  
• Intermediate knowledge of one or more programming languages, including Python and/or Java.
• Backend development project experience or course work in data structures and algorithms.
• Experience developing in Unix-like environments and using source/version control (Git).

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance; which is issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance. 
• Transcripts required

How You Can Stand Out [3-5 bullets recommended] 

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these: 

• GPA of 3.5 or higher
• Active security clearance  
• Strong leadership skills
• Experience with cloud native application development or cloud infrastructure
• Development of data platforms
• Experience with data security and governance technologies
• Microservice architectures
• Distributed and stream data processing
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of other programming languages i.e. Python, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, etc.

Temporary Housing not available

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