Cybersecurity Intern — Critical Infrastructure Defense

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Laurel (MD); Híbrido; USD 31.000 - 66.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) offers cybersecurity internship opportunities within its Critical Infrastructure Protection Group. Interns will engage in hands-on work to protect U.S.

critical infrastructure through interdisciplinary teams, prototyping, and red-teaming exercises. Applicants are pursuing degrees in cybersecurity, CS, or CE with a strong GPA and practical scripting, Linux, networking, and ICS knowledge.

Formación

• Pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering.
• 3.0 GPA or above on a 4.0 scale.
• Intermediate skills with scripting languages (Python, shell) and Linux command line.
• Knowledge of IP networking, virtualization, SDN, and ICS protocols.
• Some experience with Git version control (branching, PRs, conflict resolution); U.S. citizenship required.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with sponsors to understand missions and success criteria.
• Contribute to interdisciplinary teams designing resilience solutions for cyber-physical systems.
• Develop proof-of-concepts and prototypes of novel control systems and technologies.
• Conduct independent research and development to advance cyber-physical state-of-the-art (virtualization, machine-to-machine trust, autonomic decision making).
• Reverse engineer control system network protocols.
• Analyze control system hardware for cyber hardening.
• Engage in red teaming and adversary emulation.
• Design, integrate, test and scale-up end-to-end cyber situational awareness capabilities.
• Test cyber solutions on in-house hardware testbeds representing Critical infrastructure sectors.

Conocimientos

Scripting (Python, shell)

Linux CLI

IP networking

SDN

ICS protocols

Git version control

U.S. citizenship

Educación

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Cybersecurity/CS/CE

GPA 3.0+ on 4.0 scale

Herramientas

Docker

OpenShift

Langchain/OpenAI Agents

MATLAB

C/C++

Java

Descripción del empleo

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) offers cybersecurity internship opportunities within its Critical Infrastructure Protection Group. Interns will engage in hands-on work to protect U.S.

critical infrastructure through interdisciplinary teams, prototyping, and red-teaming exercises. Applicants are pursuing degrees in cybersecurity, CS, or CE with a strong GPA and practical scripting, Linux, networking, and ICS knowledge.