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At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.
MITRE is seeking interns to support modeling, simulation, analysis, software engineering, and operations research efforts across public interest and national mission domains. Our teams apply interdisciplinary expertise in areas such as software development, data analysis, complex systems modeling, operational analysis, visualization, and rapid prototyping to help sponsors better understand complex problems and evaluate potential solutions. Interns will work alongside technical staff and domain experts in collaborative research, experimentation, and demonstration environments.
Contribute to modeling, simulation, and analysis efforts in support of complex technical and operational challenges
Support software development for real-time simulation applications, immersive environments, analytics tools, or other prototype capabilities
Apply knowledge in data science, mathematics, statistics, operations research, geospatial science, economics, computer science, or related disciplines to real-world problems
Assist with data analysis, systems modeling, operational analysis, computational analytics, and visualization
Develop prototypes, visualizations, interfaces, or other technical solutions to support experiments and decision-making
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams that may include software engineers, data scientists, experiment designers, domain experts, and other technical staff
Present findings, prototypes, or technical work products to teammates and stakeholders
Sustained excellence in academic performance
Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program
Must continue to be enrolled full-time in the semester following the internship
Degree program should be in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Math, Statistics, Operations Research, Geospatial Science, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Computational Social Science, or a related discipline
Experience applying technical, analytical, or quantitative concepts in an internship, research, or lab setting
Experience with modeling, simulation, analysis, optimization, statistics, machine learning, or visualization
Proficiency with one or more modern programming languages or technical tools such as Python, Java, C++, R, MATLAB, SAS, or similar platforms
Experience manipulating datasets and developing visualizations or analytical outputs
Experience with software development, full stack development, DevOps concepts, or simulation development environments
Exposure to complex systems modeling, geospatial analytics, economic modeling, or operational analysis
Demonstrated interest in serving the public
Strong communication and collaboration skills
$46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual
Onsite
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.
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