Institute Programs

Critical skills of critical importance

Hone your skills in areas of key significance

Many technical and business interns work on challenging projects within one of Sandia’s departments. Others may be selected to work within one of Sandia’s technical institutes.

Housed at both our New Mexico and California sites, these technical institutes provide interns challenging work experience in multiple disciplines critical to Sandia’s mission, including cybersecurity, computer and computational science, predictive simulation, remote-sensing technologies, electrical and mechanical engineering, the physical sciences, and software engineering.

Within the institutes, interns perform leading-edge research under the guidance of a Sandia mentor and use world-class state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Depending on need, interns could, for example, help design the programmable logic for a prototype system, contribute to a predictive-simulation model, or conduct pulsed-power experiments.

Technical seminars, tours, and workshops, and social activities round out the experience, giving interns an excellent overview of Sandia’s mission, research, and culture.

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Institutes

Program	Location	Duration	Eligibility
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)	New Mexico California	Year round Summer Co-op	Undergraduate (Sophomore & higher) Graduate
Future of Research in Climate, Earth and Energy (FORCEE)	New Mexico	Year round Summer	Undergrad Graduate
Interns for Security, Arms Control, and Force Protection Engineering (iSAFE)	New Mexico Virtual	Year round Summer Co-op	Undergraduate (Sophomore & higher) Graduate
Mission Services Talent Acquisition Team (MSTAT)	New Mexico	Year round Summer	Undergraduate Graduate
MissionTech	New Mexico California Virtual	Summer	Undergraduate Graduate
Monitoring Systems and Technology Intern Center (MSTIC)	New Mexico	Year round Summer Co-op	Undergraduate Graduate
Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD)	New Mexico	7 weeks, Summer	Undergraduate Graduate
Research and Applications of Mechanics of Structures (RAMS)	New Mexico	Summer	Undergraduate (Junior or higher) Graduate
Resilient Energy Systems Intern Institute	New Mexico California Virtual	Year round Summer	Undergraduate Graduate
Science of Extreme Environments Research Institute (SEERI)	New Mexico	Year round Summer	Undergraduate Graduate
START HBCU Intern Institute	New Mexico California	Summer	Undergraduate & Graduate (HBCU students)
Student Intern Group for Microelectronics Advancement (SIGMA)	New Mexico California Virtual	Year round Summer	Undergraduate Graduate
TITANS: Software	New Mexico	Year round Summer	Undergraduate (Sophomore & higher) Graduate
TITANS: Cyber	New Mexico California Virtual	Year round Summer	Undergraduate Graduate
TITANS: Math & Analytics	New Mexico	Year round Summer	Undergraduate Graduate
TITANS: Autonomy	New Mexico Virtual	Year Round Summer	Undergraduate (Rising Sophomore & higher)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

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