Posting Title

Undergraduate/Graduate (Summer 2025) – ENRGE Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) Student Intern

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Location

CO - Golden

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Position Type

Intern (Fixed Term)

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NREL

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.

NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.

Our planet needs us! Learn about NREL’s critical objectives, and see how NREL is focused on saving the planet.

We invite all interested candidates to apply for this opportunity. While we recognize that job seekers may hesitate if they don’t meet every requirement, we encourage dedicated individuals who meet all the basic and additional required qualifications of the role to submit an application. We value the opportunity to consider those who believe they have the necessary skills and ambition to succeed at NREL.

Job Description

The vision of the Enabling Native Researchers in Graduate Education (ENRGE) consortium is to offer opportunities for engineering students with underrepresented backgrounds, such as Native Americans, Black Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, and other minorities to gain experience at NREL’s world-class facilities. This is a summer program that provides undergraduate and graduate students a unique introduction to hands-on research for future energy systems.

This Internship Opportunity Supports Research Efforts Within The Cybersecurity Research Center (CRC). The CRC Works To Secure The Energy Transformation By Leading Cutting-edge, Impactful Cybersecurity Research That Enables Scalable And Quantifiable Cyber Risk Reduction For Future Energy Systems. Primary Objectives To Realize This Vision Include:

Fully understand cyber risks to help guarantee the benefits of the energy transformation

Make cybersecurity less of an art, more of a science

Advance cyber resilience such that failures of any part of the grid have limited consequence

Proactively address future cyber challenges and transform them into opportunities

ENRGE Interns Contribute To Cyber Research In Advanced Energy Systems Across Many Different Energy Technologies, Including Transmission And Distribution, Solar, Wind, EV/EVSE, Etc. Research Activities Include But Are Not Limited To

• Cyber risk analysis and threat characterization of evolving energy systems
• Advanced modeling and simulation using NREL’s best of breed cyber range
• Cloud security and integration
• Test and evaluation of cybersecurity technologies for modern and distributed energy systems
• Threat emulation and red teaming
• Grid and renewable energy system device analysis, including hardware and software reverse engineering, SBOM, and HBOM
• Supply chain analysis
• Cyber training and exercises
• Advanced wireless technologies for distributed energy
• AI/ML research to enhance cyber resilience of energy systems
• Formal methods research to enhance security verification and assurance for energy systems
• Cyber policy, compliance, an