2026 Machine Learning Engineering Grad Intern

The Aerospace Corporation is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer Intern for the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Department (DSAID) within the Information Systems and Cyber Division (ISCD). This position will be full-time 100% onsite at our office in Chantilly VA.

Job Summary

Information Systems and Cyber Division (ISCD) staff work with the latest in information system technologies such as elastic compute clouds containerization microservices real-time operating systems and visualization frameworks with expertise in cyber security software architecture software engineering data science Artificial Intelligence process improvement and software development to deliver responsive resilient high-performance software intensive systems to our Intelligence Community DoD and civilian customers.

DSAID consists of a diverse team of engineers data scientists and programmers with a passion for researching prototyping understanding and building AI and data enabled tools across the space enterprise. We are a growing innovative and collaborative department providing technical expertise in AI and Machine Learning to many of Aerospaces customers such as the Missile Defense Agency NASA Space Development Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. We apply data science and AI knowledge across the space enterprise to Aerospace enterprise capabilities and towards corporate workforce development and strategic focus areas.

Machine Learning Engineers work on teams spanning various disciplines experience levels and organizational boundaries.

What Youll Be Doing

• Developing and executing machine learning and data science experiments in the domains of natural language processing computer vision time series analysis reinforcement learning etc.

• Evaluating technologies and data science models for use in scalable and resilient mission-critical applications

• Collaborating with teams of various sizes to deliver features and products

• Presenting written and verbal results to customer stakeholders.

• Reinforcing an environment of learning and progress with team members and others

WhatCorporateSkillsYoull Bring

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Must work well in a team environment

• Possess organizational time management and project management skills

• Demonstrate flexibility and ability to adapt to changing organizational need

• Interpersonal skills to coordinate efforts and work with other internal and external organizations

What You Need to be Successful

Minimum Requirements

• Currently enrolled full-time in an accredited college/university program pursuing a Masters Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related discipline.

• Availability to work full-time for a minimum of 10 weeks outside of university term and ability to return to a degree program full-time after completion of the internship.

• Minimum GPA of 3.0

• Proficiency in Python including major ML libraries and tools (PyTorch)

• Experience with container orchestration tooling (Docker Kubernetes etc.)

• Experience with and understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence software engineering and statistics

• Experience with and understanding of software engineering concepts with an AI focus (MLOps/DevOps ML Development Lifecycle Scalable ML Architecture etc.)

• Familiarity with MLOps processes and tools (MLFlow Data Version Control etc.)

• Specific experience designing either computer vision or natural language processing applications leveraging ML models.

• Experience in leveraging GPUs to scale and measure ML solution performance (NVIDIA developer tools etc.)

• Familiarity with Unix/Linux operating systems

• Experience with cloud native application development or cloud infrastructure Microservice architectures

• This position requirestheability to obtain and maintain a securityclearance which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is to obtain a security clearance.

• Transcripts required.

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• GPA 3.5 or higher

• Active security clearance

• Strong leadership skills

• Familiarity with High Performance Computing hardware for ML (GPUs TPUs) CUDA programming and advanced ML optimization techniques and architectures

• Experience with Slurm Kubernetes or other cluster job orchestration frameworks leveraging GPU resources to run distributed ML training jobs at scale

• Experience with building ML Solutions on edge and embedded hardware (ARM devices Jetson Series etc.)

• Experience with Distributed and stream data processing big data frameworks (Hadoop Spark Flink etc.)

• Experience building scalable Agentic and Generative AI solutions for narrow-scoped use cases

Temporary housing assistance is not available.