Intern, R&D Graduate Summer, TITANS
Sandia National Laboratories
About Our Team
The Center for Cyber Defenders (CCD) provides computer science interns with practical experience in computer systems, network operations, and information protection. Our summer program combines research with education, allowing interns to perform experiments on attacking and defending computer systems with proper guidance and protective measures in place. The Applied Cybersecurity Research Department develops and applies new information technologies to help our national security and critical infrastructure protection customers establish information superiority. We work across the technology spectrum, including embedded, mobile, desktop, wireless, enterprise.
About the Role
We are seeking graduate students highly motivated with a passion for building secure digital information systems and applications to join our R&D graduate Interns in the TITANS Cybersecurity team for Summer 2027 at Sandia's Minnesota site. Qualified candidates will be part of a larger family, namely Technical Internships to Advance National Security (TITANS), which focuses solely on Cybersecurity, Software, and Math Analytics. TITANS Cybersecurity (also known as the Center for Cyber Defenders or CCD) is seeking students who want to have a career in cybersecurity. We are focused on developing the next generation of experts in the field of computer security from the software stack down to microelectronic hardware components. You will use your foundational computer science/engineering, electrical engineering, math, analytics, and data science skills, but your work will be directed to cybersecurity topics. Your projects will be real-world cybersecurity problems or software, hardware, or embedded engineering challenges contributing to a cybersecurity challenge or mission space affecting national security.
Key Responsibilities
- Reverse engineering, vulnerability assessment, and malware analysis
- Intrusion prevention/detection and response, penetration testing, and forensics
- Network operation, information protection, and resiliency
- Authentication and authorization
- Cryptography
- Virtualization (system and network) and cloud technologies
- Mobile devices and smart technologies
Areas of Interest
- Data science, information theory, and streaming and behavioral analytics
- Threat intelligence
- Modeling, simulation, and emulation
- Hardware/software trust and assurance
- Industrial control systems and SCADA systems
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI Security
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Foundational computer science/engineering, electrical engineering, math, analytics, and data science skills.
Qualifications
Required
- 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
- Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship
- Ability to work onsite
Desired
- Pursuing a masters degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity Mathematics or equivalent STEM field
- Working knowledge and understanding of an engineering or science related field, such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity Mathematics or other relevant STEM Disciplines
- Scholarship for Service Recipient
- Ability to obtain and retain a DOE Q and SCI Clearance
- Currently enrolled in the University of Minnesota System (applicants from other universities are also eligible)
Note: If you have not yet started your graduate program, please apply to an undergraduate intern position.