Software Engineering Intern – Time-Limited

WashU IT

Software Engineering Intern assisting in application development for HPC at WashU. Ideal for students interested in software development and large-scale computing.

Posted 4/16/2026internshipRemote • Montana • 🇺🇸 United StatesEntry LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerJavaScriptLinuxPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop, test, and maintain tools, scripts, and services that support research workflows on the HPC cluster (e.g., job submission helpers, workflow automation, monitoring tools).
Contribute to internal web applications, command-line tools, or APIs that simplify HPC usage for researchers.
Assist with integrating new research applications and libraries into the cluster environment.
Follow software engineering best practices including version control, code reviews, issue tracking, and testing.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Help identify and implement improvements to development processes and tooling.
Configure, build, and test scientific software, libraries, and containerized applications (e.g., Singularity/Apptainer, Docker) for use on the cluster.
Contribute to performance testing and benchmarking of applications, analyzing results and suggesting improvements.
Support efforts to improve usability, reliability, and automation within the HPC software stack.

Requirements

What you’ll need

No specific work experience is required for this position
A diploma, certification or degree is not required.
No specific certification/professional license is required for this position.
Analytical Thinking
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
C++ Programming Language
Communication
Data Analysis
Feature Engineering
Git
Independent Problem Solving
JavaScript
Linux Environments
Machine Learning (ML)
Python (Programming Language)
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Tensorflow
Web Application Frameworks
Work Collaboratively

Benefits

Comp & perks

No specific benefits mentioned

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Hard Skills & Tools

C++JavaScriptPythonMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence AlgorithmsData AnalysisFeature EngineeringPyTorchscikit-learnTensorflow

Soft Skills

Analytical ThinkingCommunicationIndependent Problem SolvingWork Collaboratively