2025 Computer Systems Engineer Summer Intern
2025 Computer Systems Engineer Summer Intern
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Overview
Thales Defense & Security Inc.(TDSI)Headquartered in Clarksburg MD is a U.S. company that has been serving domestic and international defense Air Land and Sea domains for 60 years. With over 1000 employees TDSI and its three subsidiaries (Tampa Microwave Advanced Acoustic Concepts and Trusted Cyber Technologies) supports U.S. Joint Services special operations forces and multinational partners with a variety of communication visualization electronic warfare and sensor/sonar capabilities. TDSIs key technologies include tactical handheld radios expeditionary satellite terminals helmetmounted displays optics and target recognition capability advanced radars undersea sensing and missile systems. Lives depend on what we do!
Thales Defense & Security Inc. has an opening for an intern within the Systems Engineering department for 8 weeks during the summer of 2025. This position will be responsible for some entrylevel assignments that will provide exposure to the software engineering job family. This position is located in the Germantown MD office and reports to the Manager of Engineering.
Please Note: The Intern must be prepared to start in Germantown MD in Summer 2025.
Responsibilities
The Systems Engineering Intern will contribute to the product development and support of diverse computing solutions for DRT products gaining handson experience with the computer infrastructure underpinning DRTs Software Defined Radio (SDR) mission systems including computers storage networking and specialized hardware (i.e. GPUs Tuners and FPGAs). The skills you can expect to develop are:
- Supporting Systems Engineering tasks related to designing and implementing complex computing systems as part of DRT products.
- Learn Systems Administration best practices for managing and maintaining server environments which are deliverable DRT Products.
- Study of Network Engineering principles for configuring and troubleshooting network infrastructure within complex high speed OpenVPx SDR mission systems.
- Contribute to Systems Engineering I&T activities involving hardware integration and optimization.
- Participate in DevSecOps initiatives focusing on automation security and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for DRT products SW Development releases.
Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- U.S. Citizenship required. Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Must be enrolled in an accredited university of college and have completed at least 2 semesters within the engineering field of study. Pursuing in one of the following fields preferred: Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Software Engineering Information Technology.
- Experience programming in modern languages
- Experience with any of the following is a huge plus:
- Linux/Unix System Administration (Red Hat preferred)
- Low Level Software development in C/C (DPDK preferred)
- Systems Programming (Linux device drivers preferred)
- Automating system deployment using scripting tools (Ansible preferred)
- Hardware/Software interfaces (PCIe preferred)
- Must be proficient in English both verbal and written.
- Ability to comply with all Company guidelines policies procedures and embrace Company Core Values.
The hourly pay range for this role is $22.00 $25.00 USD. The hour pay range provided is a good faith estimate representative of the experience level for the role described above. TDSI considers several factors when extending an offer including but not limited to the role function and associated responsibilities a candidates work experience location education/training and key skills.
For specific questions about this job posting candidates may contact the recruiter at
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Required Experience:
Intern
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