Health AI Informatics Grad Intern

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

MITRE’s Open Health Solutions (OHS) department works to address issues in health and healthcare through an open-source mindset—we believe open collaboration is the best path to implement solutions at national scale. We work in multi-disciplinary teams of clinicians, public health practitioners, software engineers, data scientists, AI developers, health data standards experts, health policy analysts, and health economists. Our work includes a wide variety of projects that further our goals of making paradigm-changing improvements to our health and healthcare systems while developing a patient-centered future for individual, family, and community health.

Key Responsibilities:

Working with MITRE team members and project leaders to support the delivery of strategic advice and counsel to health-related government sponsors and other entities for the ethical application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) in health care delivery, public health and life sciences.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Applying AI/ML and software engineering techniques with the goal of improving the safety and efficiency of health care delivery and public health.
• Providing document or specification analysis, information preparation, project management support (status reports, staffing, spreadsheets, etc.); deliverable preparation (document and presentation), deliverable editing, healthcare, or health IT research.
• Participating in highly functional and creative teams while building knowledge and working relationships across the Corporation.

Required Qualifications:

• Have already completed BA/BS and currently pursuing a graduate degree in a program related health informatics, data science or computer science.

In addition, all interns must have the following qualifications:

• Significant hands-on experience with at least open-source programming/data science tool (e.g., R, Python).
• Prior project or course work involving application of AI/ML model development.
• Hands-on experience working with clinical informatics systems or clinical data.
• A track record of successfully delivering on deadlines.
• Sustained excellence in academic performance.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Capable of thriving as part of a distributed team.

Additional Information:

• Students need to be currently enrolled and will continue to be enrolled the following semester in a full-time degree-seeking accredited university program.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):