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Your specific duties will depend on your skills and experience as well as the project efforts that are underway during your internship. Your activities will be guided by a mentor and designed to take advantage of your existing networking knowledge and experience while also enabling you to gain new skills through exposure to aspects of networking that are still unfamiliar to you. Internships generally last 8-12 weeks during the academic semester, with specific start and stop dates depending on your school’s calendar. Interns will participate in a program of technical and social activities designed to build camaraderie and expose them to what MITRE does across the corporation. Interns will discover why MITRE is such a great place to work and explore possibilities for full-time employment in the future.
All work will require you to make use of your fundamental understanding of and interest in networking protocols and principles. To be clear, this is not the type of network engineering position that involves administration tasks to support the work of other analysts. This work includes performing research, analysis, hands-on prototyping, testing, and/or modeling and simulation to address key questions regarding seeing, securing, and operating networks to enhance network design and performance that are faced by a variety of MITRE’s customers. Specifically, you may perform one or more of the following types of activities in support of communications network research (*Including but not limited to):
- Develop and program prototypes in C/C++, Java, Python or similar languages in cloud environments
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Build lab-based testbeds and conduct proof-of-concept experiments
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Develop and execute experiments in a prototype environment
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Evaluate the performance of operational networks, protocols, and experimental systems
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Perform systems-level programming, IP packet processing, and TCP/IP sockets programming
- Prototype cloud solutions in AWS, Azure or similar cloud program
To note that you do not need to be proficient in all aspects of this description.