GMD TDA Nuclear Survivability Internship
MITRE
Huntsville, ALFresher4h agovia LinkedIn
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- New grads and up to 1 year
- Must know
- PythonMATLABStatistics
- Work
- On-site in Huntsville · internship
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- Python13%Statistics7%MATLAB5%of 99 similar entry-level jobs posted in the US this week
- Listed
- Oct 28, 2026 · still open
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Department Summary
- Department: Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Weapons Systems
- Project: Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Technical Direction Agent (TDA)
- Task: Nuclear Survivability
Key Responsibilities
- Using established tools to model nuclear environments
- Explore the concepts in radiation transport effects in materials
- Conduct radiation transport modeling using third-party software/physics codes
- Software modeling and simulation of strategic missile defense systems
- Monte Carlo simulations
- Software and documentation organization to promote team collaboration and user serviceability
- Development of visualization products for effective presentation of complex topics (e.g., charts, images, and videos)
- Briefing slide design and oration narrative techniques to effectively communicate complex topics to an intended audience
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in physics or nuclear engineering or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
- Sustained excellence in academic performance
- Knowledge of radiation interactions with matter
- Knowledge of MATLAB/Python
- High level desire to help their nation solve its most critical challenges
- This position has an onsite requirement of 4 days per week minimum
- MATLAB, Python, or complementary programming language
- Monte Carlo simulation, or statistical and stochastic concepts
- Calculus, linear algebra, or differential equations
- Newtonian physics (statics, dynamics) or Galilean physics (coordinate transformation, orbital mechanics)
- Nuclear physics (beta, gamma, x-ray, neutron radiation and concepts of radioactive decay)
- Radiation transport modeling
- Knowledge of radiation transport modeling theory, Monte Carlo and/or deterministic
- Experience and/or familiarity with: MCNP, CEPXS, IRENE, SPIET-D, ASSIST
Clearance
- May be submitted for a U.S. Government Security clearance.
- Requires U.S. citizenship.
- This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None
- This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret
Salary
- $46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual