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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’s Warfighting Software Systems Integration & Experimentation Department is seeking a Software Systems Engineering Intern in Omaha, Nebraska who is highly motivated, creative, and self-directed to help provide expertise and support to our sponsor and their mission. This position provides challenging opportunities to apply and expand one’s domain knowledge, creative problem-solving capabilities, software and systems engineering skills, and technical expertise.
Collaborate with teammates to learn, discuss, and solve complex software system engineering challenges
Set up and maintain a development environment to support coding and testing activities
Write, test, and debug code primarily in TypeScript and Python to implement software solutions
Use GitLab for version control, including branching, merging, and submitting code reviews
Demonstrate completed work to teammates and prepare presentations to share project outcomes with the broader organization
Sustained excellence in academic performance
Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
Fundamental understanding of software development principles and practices
Familiarity with version control systems, such as GitLab, for collaborative coding and code management
Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and present technical information clearly
This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days per week on-site
Demonstrated interest in serving the public
Experience having applied computer science learning to an internship or research/lab position.
Experience with automated testing frameworks, including unit testing and API testing
Familiarity with Cucumber or similar behavior-driven development (BDD) tools
Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker for developing and deploying applications
Clearance: In addition to passing MITRE’s employment background check, you may be submitted for a U.S. Government Security clearance. This is determined by the Department of Defense’s adjudicative guidelines for receiving a clearance, to include U.S. citizenship. Other jobs may require vetting for various levels of agency public trust, fitness, suitability, controlled access, and special programs access determination consistent with the work program to which you are assigned.
$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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