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The Cyber for Identity, Trust, and Assurance department is comprised of an inspired multi-disciplinary team of researchers and practitioners driving innovation in the department's technical areas of focus, with particular emphasis in Cryptography, Software Assurance (SWA), Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). We develop and apply scalable approaches for systems and software, evaluate technology and solutions, lead and foster external partnerships within the communities we support, and conduct novel research and development.
Job Responsibilities:
- Engage in projects related to cryptography, trusted AI, software assurance, and identity, credential and access management
Basic Qualifications:
- Sustained excellence in academic performance
- Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in computer science, cybersecurity, math or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated interest in serving the public
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning and/or software defined networking.
- Knowledge of post-quantum cryptography or fully homomorphic encryption.
- Strong coding and software engineering skills.
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):Not Applicable
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):Not Applicable
Salary compensation range and midpoint:$46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual
Work Location Type:Hybrid
Commitment to Non-DiscriminationAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.
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