Science of Security Intern Program (SoS)
The National Security Agency (NSA) Science of Security (SoS) & Privacy Lablets Summer Internship Program is for undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at U.S. universities and colleges. The program provides an opportunity for exceptional science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students to work directly with NSA SoS Champions on mission-critical hard problems and experience the excitement of the NSA research community first-hand.
Over the course of the summer, the students participating in this program will work on SoS five hard problems:
- Resilient Architectures;
- Scalability and Composability;
- Security-Metrics-Driven Evaluation, Design, Development, and Deployment;
- Policy Governed Secure Collaboration; and
- Understanding and Accounting for Human Behavior
Within each hard problem section are areas where there is extension into privacy and cyber-physical systems. Under the guidance of NSA SoS Champions, selected students will work in collaboration with ongoing cybersecurity and privacy research projects led by the below current six Lablets
- Carnegie Mellon University
- International Computer Science Institute Berkeley
- North Carolina State University
- University of Illinois-Champaign
- University of Kansas
- Vanderbilt University
Pay & Benefits
- Students are paid a competitive salary commensurate with their education level
- Receive annual leave, sick leave and paid federal holidays
- Participation in agency-wide extracurricular programs
- Students who attend schools in excess of 75 miles from Ft. Meade, MD are eligible for a round trip airfare ticket to and from school or mileage reimbursement up to the cost of a government-issued airline ticket
- Daily transportation to and from work is not provided. Students participating in the program are highly encouraged to bring a vehicle. Carpooling with other students MAY be available but NOT guaranteed.
- Subsidized housing accommodations are available upon request if school is located in excess of 75 miles from NSA main HQs campus
Qualifications
- Must be a US citizen
- Must be eligible to be granted a security clearance
- Must be available for an operational interview and other applicable processing between the months of November 2019 and March 2020
- Applicants should have demonstrated superior STEM aptitude and problem-solving skills. Evidence of successful work on an independent STEM project is desirable. Applicants may be at any stage in their undergraduate or graduate careers and working, or intending to work, in any STEM area.
- Desired majors include, but not restricted to, the following: computer science, cybersecurity engineering, human behavior, information technology, math and psychology.