SIParCS Graduate Student Internships

Position: 2027 SIParCS Graduate Student Internships

Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, and skills relevant to the role.

Position Type

Term - Casual (Fixed Term)

Visa Sponsored Job

No

Relocation Assistance Eligible

No

Hiring Range

Hiring Hourly Rate: $28.32/hr

Final date to receive applications

About

The Role

The Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) program at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) offers graduate students and undergraduates who have completed their sophomore year significant hands‑on R&D opportunities in high‑performance computing (HPC) and related fields that use HPC for scientific discovery and modeling.

This program embeds students as summer interns in the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL), an organization within NSF NCAR charged with provisioning supercomputing and data systems to the geosciences research community, as well as conducting research and development in computational science, data analysis, scientific visualization and numerical modeling.

These twin roles of service and research in CISL support NSF NCAR's broad scientific mission of discovery in the atmospheric and related sciences.

The 2027 summer internships are 11 weeks in duration. Applicants must be available to work 40 hours per week from May 17, 2027 through July 30, 2027 for participation in the program. NSF NCAR has 3 unpaid holidays for interns during the summer internship (Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day).

Program requirements, beyond working on projects, include attending appropriate technical seminars, attending skills‑enhancing workshops, preparing a poster, and giving an oral presentation of results at the end of the summer.

For Summer 2027, we are planning for an in‑person internship program where interns come on‑site to our Boulder, Colorado campuses and meetings may be held in person or hybridly over Zoom or Google Meet.

Job Description

As a SIParCS intern, you will:

• Conduct original research under the guidance of your science mentor;
• Give a presentation based on your research;
• Participate professionally in all SIParCS activities

Project Descriptions by Title (Detailed project descriptions can be found here: http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).)

Project 06. A Study of Quantum Applications within Earth System Modeling (ESM)

Project 07. Can Data Assimilation of Spatially and Temporally Dense Surface Pressure Observations Reveal the State of the Entire Troposphere?

Project 08. Decentralized Federated Learning Sensor nets for Community Resilience and Actionable Science

Project 09. EcoMAP:
Ecological Mapping and AI‑Assisted Species Profiling

Project 10. Emulators and GPUs for Data Assimilation

Project 11. Ensemble vs. Regional Refinement:
Satellite Data Assimilation for Urban Air Quality Forecasting

Project 12. Exploring Agentic Software Engineering and Spec‑Driven Development for Scientific Software

Project 13. Exploring AI‑Assisted Interfaces for Search and Discovery using Scientific Embeddings

Project 14. Large GPU Ensembles and Rare‑Event Sampling for Weather and Climate

Project 15. MPAS-A and Evaluating AI‑assisted Coding Methods

Project 16. Using agentic AI to accelerate the modernization of a large scientific codebase

Who We'd Love To Join Our Team

Education and Experience

• Must have attained a bachelor's degree at the time of application.
• Must currently be enrolled in a U.S. university.
• Must be a graduate or doctoral student.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. to be eligible for the SIParCS program.
• For F visa students accepted to the SIParCS program, CPT work authorization issued through a U.S. Designated School Official (DSO) or OPT issued through both a DSO and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be required.
• On‑site participation in Boulder,…