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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS

The Cloud Technology Advancement Department of the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University is seeking graduate / undergraduate interns to work part-time with senior technical staff to research, design, develop, integrate, and test advanced systems. This is an opportunity to work across multiple interconnected disciplines across a large team of teams.

ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and deploy on-prem, external, and hybrid HPC (High Performance Compute) / cloud research platforms
• Develop and integrate supporting AI/ML models, agentic workflows, and agentic engineering services
• Develop HPC / cloud security principals, protocols, and practices from secure supply chain to
• Enhance modern development practices through DevSecOps and agile methodologies
• Advance existing hardware and software level Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automations
• Create HPC / cloud architectural designs and documentation
• Implement observability, telemetry, and monitoring solutions to collect and analyze system insights and performance data

Preferred Source Degree Programs:

• Computer Science, or Computer Engineering from the College of Engineering
• Cybersecurity from Information Sciences and Technology (IST)
• Management Information Systems (MIS) from the Smeal College of Business

Interest in a selection of the following is required:

• US Federal Government Research and Development
• HPC / Cloud computing platforms and services
• AI development and integration
• DevSecOps practices and tools
• Infrastructure automation
• Secure digital supply chain practices
• Cybersecurity policies, procedures, practices
• Software development and design

Preferred Experience include:

• US Military ROTC, Veteran, or Reservist service
• Interim Secret or above Security Clearance.  
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) CNCF: K8, K3S, Rancher, Longhorn, Keycloak, Kyverno), external (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud),
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) technology integrations (K8, K3, Rancher, Longhorn, Keycloak, Kyverno)
• Infr