Summer R&D Graduate Intern

Job Description

About Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation. They have teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the benefits of working at Sandia include:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions, including 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance.

Job Description: Summer R&D Graduate Intern

The Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) at Sandia is seeking several students to participate in collaborative research across a wide range of areas in computer science.

Possible research areas include:

• Advanced computer architectures
• Systems software
• Parallel algorithms
• Programming languages and paradigms
• Machine learning
• Data sciences
• Data management and curation
• Materials data analytics
• Combinatorial mathematics
• Discrete event simulation
• Scalable solvers
• Continuous and discrete optimization
• Uncertainty quantification
• Statistics
• Multiscale methods and mathematics
• Multiphysics modeling
• Visualization
• Visual cognition
• Meshing
• Cybersecurity
• Advanced modeling and simulation
• Human decision modeling
• Brain inspired computing

Students are also sought with interests in applying computational methods to scientific and engineering applications including:

• Shock physics
• Molecular dynamics
• Magnetohydrodynamics
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Electrical systems
• Climate science

This intern position is hybrid, where you will work a combination of onsite and offsite work.

Qualifications We Require:

• Earned bachelor’s degree
• Currently attending and enrolled full time in the spring term immediately preceding the internship (or scheduled to graduate in the spring) in an accredited science, engineering, or math graduate program
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Ability to work up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, asylees or refugees in the U.S.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Communication skills appropriate for participating in multi-disciplinary research teams
• Pursuing a degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, statistics, cognitive science or related fields with a strong academic record
• Software development and programming experience (C++, C, Fortran, Matlab, Java, Python)
• Knowledge or the interest to learn parallel programming such as MPI, OpenMP, and/or threads
• Experience with mathematical modeling techniques (e.g., linear and integer programming, statistical modeling, system dynamics modeling)

About the Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI):

The CSRI at Sandia creates technology and solutions for many of our nation’s most demanding national security challenges. The Institutes’ portfolio spans the spectrum from fundamental research to state-of-the-art applications. Their work includes computer system architecture (both hardware and software), enabling technology for modeling physical and engineering systems, and support research in discrete mathematics, data analytics, and decision support.

The CSRI enterprise is closely tied to the laboratories’ broader set of missions and strategies. Application areas include nuclear weapons, cyber security, climate modeling, alternative energy technologies, and improvements to the power grid. They also serve as stewards of important capabilities for the nation in high-strain-rate physics, scientific visualization, mesh generation, and computational materials. They maintain world-class research programs in computational and discrete mathematics, computer science, scalable algorithms, and large-scale high performance computer systems.

The CSRI is an exciting and highly multidisciplinary research environment. CSRI interns have access to Sandia’s state-of-the-art parallel-computing environment including numerous large-scale clusters, visualization servers, and other specialized computing systems.