Software Engineer Intern

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Around here, we define the future. We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers, and dreamers. But we all share one goal: to improve the world responsibly and safely by supporting the science that informs decision makers and protects Earth.

This opportunity is open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students pursuing a career in software development. This internship opportunity will provide the applicant software development experience with progressive responsibility and experience. The software development will span multiple disciplines including cloud, C/C++, python, and database development/support. This will be in support of the various missions at the EROS (Earth Resources Observation and Science) Center (http://eros.usgs.gov/), located near Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The Software Developer interns will be on site at EROS Center for the summer of 2025. Candidate must have Three years of continuous residency in the U.S.

Core Responsibilities: 

The Software Developer Intern is responsible for designing and implementing tasks required in the development of software products.

• Communicate and coordinate activities and technical status with your mentor, supervisor, Project Lead, and other Project team members, as appropriate.
• Ensure all software activities are conducted in accordance with standards and best practices.
• Provide support for software planning including software requirements definition, activity identification, and estimating.
• Perform and document preliminary and detailed design of software components.
• Implement software from detailed designs.
• Develop and conduct software testing.
• Document the testing effort through generation of test plans, procedures, and reports.
• Submit, analyze, and manage configuration change requests in accordance with established Configuration Management (CM) processes.
• Ensure proper process is followed and documentation is properly maintained.
• Participate in code reviews.

Education: Working towards a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, or equivalent.

Experience: 0-2 year’s related experience in software development is desired. Experience with image processing systems and satellite ground systems are a plus.

Required Skills:

• The candidate must have Three years of continuous residency in the U.S.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience using Python and C/C++
• Experience interfacing with database systems
• Unix/Linux experience

Desired Skills:

• Postgres experience
• Experience with remote sensing, digital image/signal processing techniques, and basic geography concepts such as map projections
• Experience with AWS Cloud Service especially S3, EC2, EKS, ECR, and Lambda
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code

Candidates must have strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a teamwork emphasis. Candidates must also be able to integrate into a highly skilled team.

The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a national agency check and background investigation after hire to obtain a badge for facility access and user accounts.
 

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Three years of continuous residency in the U.S. for issuance of a Government Security credential
• The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a national agency check and background investigation after hire to obtain a badge for government facility access and user accounts.

KBR partners with several other companies to fulfill its requirements as a government contractor. The selected subcontracting companies align their benefits as closely as possible to those of KBR.

KBR Benefits​

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule.  We support career advancement through professional training and development.​

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Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.