Overview
Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the government space? What if you could find a position that is tailor made to grow your development, engineering, and communication skills? That's why we need you, a motivated summer intern, to help us evaluate and guide intelligence collection programs as they evolve to commercial trends like Agile development, Cloud migration, and streamlined DevOps deployments. This is an opportunity to build your experience using the latest open source tools, trends, and techniques on technical issues supporting the mission of our Intelligence Community customer.
Come work alongside our program team to as we inject industry trends into the mission space by leveraging Model Based Systems Engineering, SAFE Agile, cloud infrastructure, cloud transition and resource management, containerization, microservices, DevOps, machine learning, modeling and acquisition innovation. You will develop the ability to strategize with and develop the customer's future ground architecture as you tackle a project with direct impact on national security.
Arcfield's intern program is designed to provide college students the opportunity to gain meaningful, hands-on work experience in a professional environment. Our goal is to build a roadmap that leads you to a long, rewarding and challenging career. Interns typically represent college students trying to gain related work experience while pursuing an undergraduate degree. Under direct supervision, you will perform various hands-on tasks and assignments for the organization's professional staff in such disciplines as Systems Engineering, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing and Project Management.
Internship Advantages
• Meaningful work related to national security
• Primary channel for full-time, entry-level hires
• Competitive pay
• Opportunity for government security clearance
Qualifications
Required Skills:
• High School level plus some advanced training
• Available to work the duration of the ten weeks and commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week
Preferred
• A rising junior or senior
• Pursuing a degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related fields
• 3.0 cumulative GPA or higher
• Experience programming with Python or other similar languages
• Experience with data visualization tools and concepts
• Experience in project teams with multiple members and multi-month periods of performance
EEO Statement
EEO
Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.