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Fort Meade, MD

Internship

Onsite

Intern

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a federal intelligence and cybersecurity organization advancing national security through foreign signals intelligence and cybersecurity missions. The Graduate Mathematics Program provides graduate students with hands-on experience working with NSA mathematicians on mission-critical problems involving mathematics, statistics, data analysis, cryptology, and communications technology, while documenting their work in technical papers.

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Responsibilities

The NSA Summer Internship Program at our Fort Meade, MD location offers students exciting, impactful professional work opportunities (with pay and limited benefits!) to grow their knowledge of the Intelligence Community and federal government while advancing NSA's two primary missions: 1) Collecting, analyzing, and producing foreign signals intelligence; and 2) Providing cybersecurity solutions and guidance to protect critical national infrastructure. Graduate Mathematics Program: The GMP provides an opportunity for exceptional mathematics and statistics graduate students to work directly with NSA Mathematicians on mission-critical problems and experience the excitement of the NSA mathematics community. GMP participants work on problems involving math, statistics, data analysis, cryptology, and communications technology and document their work in technical papers which are internally published at NSA. Applicants should have demonstrated superior mathematical aptitude and problem-solving skills. Evidence of successful work on an independent project in pure or applied mathematics, statistics, data science, or computer science is desirable. Applicants may be at any stage in their graduate careers or intending to work in any area of mathematics or statistics. Computer programming experience, especially Python, C, or C++, is desirable

Qualification

Required

Must be a U.S. Citizen
Must be enrolled in an graduate level degree-seeking program at time of application
Specific education requirements vary by program
Must be eligible to be granted a TS/SCI security clearance after successfully completing a background investigation, a Full-scope Polygraph and a Psychological Evaluation
Must be available and in the U.S. for operational and technical interviews and other applicable processing, both in-person and via telephone/internet, between the months of October 2026 and April 2027
1 Letter of Recommendation from a faculty member familiar with your technical work
Preferred majors: - Computer Science - Mathematics - Physics - Related majors with a strong background in math or computer science

Preferred

Preferred cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher
Evidence of an independent project in pure or applied mathematics, statistics, data science, or computer science is desirable
Computer programming experience, especially Python, C, or C++, is desirable

Benefits

Receive annual leave, sick leave and paid federal holidays.
Students who attend school in excess of 75 miles from Fort Meade, MD are eligible for housing accommodations and travel entitlements of a round trip airfare ticket to and from school or mileage reimbursement up to the cost of a government-issued airline ticket.
Participation in agency-wide extracurricular programs.

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