Software Engineering Intern

This internship supports technical and engineering organizations such as Electronics, Software, Facilities and Manufacturing Engineering during vacations and short breaks from college while you are enrolled in an accredited degree program.

The Ground Data Systems and Services Organization handles the architecture, development, deployment and operation of Ground Data Systems for all customer programs. The team delivers secure, scalable and standardized solutions across the Commercial Civil Space line of business as a central hub of engineering expertise.

As a software engineering intern, you will help build software for the Ground Software Tools (GST) and Ground Systems Integration (GSI) team in the Ground Data Systems (GDS) organization on the Orion program. The work supports NASA's Artemis missions, including Artemis 3, Artemis 4, Artemis 5 and future missions in development.

You will help develop big data tools and a data lake software architecture across the full stack, and maintain command line, GUI-based and web-based applications that process and analyze spacecraft telemetry data. Tasks involve working closely with end users and responding to their feedback.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software in several languages such as Go, Python, Java and C++
• Support software requirements development, formal verification development and testing
• Help troubleshoot deployed ground system hardware, operating systems and networks, working with System Admins to resolve issues
• Assist with deploying and integrating software into operational environments and provide operational support to systems and subsystems engineers within Orion
• Explore ways to integrate AI into software engineering workflows

Desired Skills

• Strong user support skills and the ability to address user concerns directly
• Independent problem-solving
• Knowledge of Ceph, Redis and S3
• Experience with spacecraft telemetry, big data and web application development (RESTful services, web frontends, integration with webservers, databases and messaging platforms)
• Experience with Python, especially Pandas, plotly and bokeh, and Jupyter Notebooks for GUI development
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud systems requiring 24-hour uptime, and sysadmin tasks
• Experience with Agile (Scrum), integration testing and Ground Data Systems supporting spacecraft operations

Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, paid time off, holidays, parental leave, EAP, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, life insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability. Annual incentive compensation may be offered depending on the position, and payments are not guaranteed.