NSA Summer Internship - STEM (MD)

Responsibilities

The United States has experienced profound changes that impact the way the NSA conducts its mission. NSA's Computer Scientists face technical challenges well beyond the wildest imaginations of most people. NSA's mission requires persistent engagement to anticipate and understand complex threats in real-time, on a global scale. From Counter-Terrorism to Combat Support to Cybersecurity, NSA's Computer Science community creates novel, cutting-edge solutions that advance science and underpin every aspect of our foreign intelligence and cybersecurity mission. The explosion of internet communications has created a need for the Cybersecurity mission as well. The NSA Cybersecurity mission is to prevent and eradicate threats to National Security Systems and critical infrastructure, with a focus on the Defense Industrial Base. This diverse team of problem solvers collaborate across industry and government to expose foreign cyber espionage, patch critical vulnerabilities, modernize encryption, and issue unique, timely and actionable cybersecurity guidance. With the ever-accelerating technological advances and growing system complexity, NSA also needs Engineers to integrate systems, reduce the cost to operate and maintain systems & to design, develop, construct and test electronic hardware and software processing components. These components are typically subsystems of communication, collection, processing or analysis systems. In addition to the above, we also invite exceptional students to put their skills to the test solving problems in mathematics, cryptology, communications technology, statistics, and data science in support of the national security mission. This program offers students the opportunity to apply their academic knowledge in the stimulating professional environment of one of the most advanced intelligence agencies in the world. These problems involve applications of abstract algebra, geometry, number theory, analysis, probability, statistics, combinatorics, graph theory and algorithms. State of the art computing resources are available, as well as computational software packages, such as Python, R, Sage, Magma, MATLAB and MAPLE, in addition to a variety of statistics packages. Please apply through this vacancy if you are interested in any of the following internships: - Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-Cyber Ops) Summer Intern Program - Computer Science Intern Program (CSIP) - Cryptanalysis and Signals Analysis Summer Program (CASA) - Cyber Summer Program (CSP) - Cybersecurity Directorate Summer Intern Program (CSDIP) - Director's Summer Program (DSP) - Graduate Math Program (GMP) - Installations & Logistics (I&L) / Data Center Facilities Management (DCFM) Intern Program - Research Experience Student Program (RESP) - Science of Security (SoS) Intern Program - Security & Counterintelligence Summer Intern Program (SCSIP) - Signal Intelligence Collection Program (SICP) - Summer Intern Program for Information Assurance & Engineering (SIPIA) - Summer Intern Program for Science & Technology (SIPST) - Summer Program for Operations Research Technology (SPORT) ***PLEASE NOTE: You can find descriptions for each program listed above at the following link: https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/NSA/nsastudents.html

Job Summary

Join students from across the country and lend your knowledge to national security in one of NSA's over 30 summer internship programs. These 12 week paid programs run from mid-May to mid-August and are open to undergraduate freshman up to Ph.D. students depending on internship requirements. These internships are open to a wide variety of majors and give students the opportunity to work directly with mission-critical problems and experience the excitement of working directly in NSA spaces.

Qualifications

To be accepted into the NSA Summer Internship - STEM, candidates must: - Be a U.S. citizen; - Be eligible to be granted a TS/SCI/TK security clearance after successfully completing a background investigation that includes passing a Full-Scope Polygraph and a Psychological Evaluation; - Preferred cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for all college work completed; - Be a currently enrolled college student (undergraduate, graduate or doctorate program) at time of application; - Be available and in the U.S. for operational and technical interviews and other applicable processing, both in-person and via telephone/internet, between the months of November 2023 and March 2024; - Be pursuing a major in: - Computer Science or related field, such as: - Computer Engineering - Mathematics - Data Science - Physics - Information Systems - Cybersecurity - Artificial Intelligence - Engineering or closely related field, such as: - Industrial Engineer - Systems Engineer - Computer Network Engineer - Computer Engineer - Electrical Engineer - Civil Engineer - Mechanical Engineer - Software Engineer - Mathematics or closely related field, such as: - Data Science - Statistics ***PLEASE NOTE: Other majors may be considered, however the majors listed above are preferred and highly recommended. ***Please Note: You may be required to complete an Unproctored Internet Testing (UIT) requirement measuring cognitive ability, motivation, and English proficiency.