Raytheon

AI / ML - Bachelor Intern - Summer 2021

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Cambridge, MA

Job Description

Who we are
Raytheon BBN Technologies is one of Raytheons premier research and development centers. Our diverse research portfolio combines the best technologies to deliver innovative, custom solutions with real-world benefit.

Our Intelligent Software & Systems department is seeking qualified interns to work on forward looking and projects in the areas of distributed systems, cyber security, information management, and virtual technologies. You will be exposed to all aspects of software engineering and be part of a team developing next generation capabilities for distributed and mobile information systems of tomorrow.

What will you do?
You will contribute to one or more projects sponsored by the US government and will work on a team with 3-5 other technical staff to design, develop, and prototype solutions in technical areas.

The applicant will be working closely with BBN researchers. The work will involve building custom solutions for difficult problems sponsored by the US government. You will earn first-hand experience with some of the newest technologies in use today, and be a contributing member in a small, highly qualified and motivated research and development team. You will learn how to build state-of-the-art intelligent, adaptive and resilient systems with the mindset of providing tangible evaluation and demonstration of improved resiliency, performance and usability.

What will you need?
Student pursuing a BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Deep and driving curiosity
Ability to work in teams
Available to work 40 hours per week, summer 2021
Experience programming in Python

Additional Skills that would be AWESOME / BENEFICIAL
Excellent written and verbal communications
Experience with the command line and bash
Familiarity with natural language processing concepts
Familiarity with machine learning concepts
Interest in conversational AI and chatbots

This position requires either a U.S. Person or a Non-U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization.
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Raytheon

Waltham, MA

Raytheon Company develops integrated products, services, and solutions for the defense and other government markets worldwide. It operates through five segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS); Missile Systems (MS); Space and Airborne Systems (SAS); and Forcepoint. The IDS segment offers integrated air and missile defense; land-and sea-based radar solutions; command, control, communications, computers, cyber, and intelligence solutions; naval combat and ship electronic and sensing systems; and undersea sensing and effects solutions.

The IIS segment provides technical and professional services, such as navigation, DoD space and weather solutions, cybersecurity, analytics, training, logistics, mission support, software-based systems, automation and sustainment solutions, and air traffic management systems, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions. The MS segment develops and supports weapon systems comprising missiles, smart munitions, close-in weapon systems, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles, directed energy effectors, and combat sensor solutions.

The SAS segment provides civil and military electro-optical/infrared sensors; airborne radars for surveillance and fire control applications; lasers; precision guidance systems; signals intelligence systems; processors; electronic warfare systems; tactical and strategic communications; and space-qualified systems. The Forcepoint segment offers cyber security products that include risk adaptive data loss prevention; user and entity behavior analytics and cloud access security broker capabilities; insider threat solutions; firewall technology; cloud and on premise Web and email security; and cross domain transfer products.

Raytheon Company has a strategic agreement with AirMap to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate drones into the national airspace system. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.