Internship - Analyst​/Researcher

Do you want to apply your analytical, research, data, or language skills to real-world problems and gain experience with cyber operations?

Do you want to apply your analytical, research, data, or language skills to real-world problems and gain experience with cyber operations?

Are you excited by ambiguous problems and interested in turning research and analysis into impactful mission insight?

Are you intellectually curious, constantly seeking to understand global events, emerging threats, adversary behavior, and the relationships between them?

Are you passionate about cybersecurity, intelligence, and national security?

If these questions resonate with you, you may be a great fit for an internship with the Cyber Warfare Systems Group (QCR)! QCR team members apply their skills to offensive security operations and non-kinetic mission defeat. We help the U.S. military address complex cyber operations challenges and execute cyber missions at scale in support of joint operations. Our best solutions often emerge at the intersection of technology, intelligence, data, human behavior, and mission understanding.

We bring together people with multidisciplinary analytical and mission backgrounds because the hardest cyber operations problems rarely fit neatly within a single discipline. Our research areas include analysis and targeting, cyber-layer modeling, cybersecurity, and human-systems modeling.

You Will Gain a Hands-on Analytical Internship Experience. Interns Work Alongside And Learn From Analysts, Researchers, Engineers, And Cyber Practitioners While Contributing To Real Problems Supporting Cyber Operations. Depending On Your Interests, Background, And Experience, You May

• Investigate complex questions using open-source information, publicly or commercially available information, data, intelligence, foreign-language sources, and other research methods.
• Apply analytical methods such as intelligence analysis, targeting, graph theory, network analysis, data science, structured analytic techniques, or human-systems analysis.
• Develop assessments, analytical methods, data products, visualizations, or decision-support approaches that turn complex information into useful mission insight.
• Use and critically evaluate AI-enabled analytical tools and emerging methods, understanding both their potential and limitations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary APL teams and government and contractor partners as analysis informs capability development and mission execution.
• Have opportunities to contribute your own ideas and perspective. Our interns are active members of the team, eager to learn quickly, and make a meaningful team impact.

You meet our minimum qualifications for consideration if you:

• Are pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Intelligence Studies, International Relations, Political Science, Foreign Language, Psychology, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, History, or a related analytical discipline.
• Have a minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale.
• Enjoy investigating ambiguous questions, identifying patterns and connections, evaluating evidence, and turning findings into useful insights.
• Can critically evaluate analytical methods and tools, including AI-enabled approaches, and distinguish evidence-supported conclusions from unsupported assumptions.
• Can effectively communicate information, concepts, findings, and ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Are able to acquire an Interim Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately acquire a Top Secret with SCI level security clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified…