Tech Architect Fellow - Hybrid Internship in Defense Tech

In-Q-Tel; North Dakota; Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

In-Q-Tel offers a 12-week summer fellowship with the Technical Architect team. This internship focuses on identifying and evaluating technologies for intelligence and defense partners, spanning cyber, AI, unmanned systems, sensors, microelectronics, space tech, biology, quantum, and more.

Hybrid work (office & teleworking) in the US-VA McLean area with a strong emphasis on technical vetting, due diligence, and collaboration with portfolio companies.

Qualifications

• Must be a graduate student in an engineering or science discipline.
• Strong writing and proposal writing experience are preferred.
• Ability to present complex technology to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Assesses the competitive landscape in a given technical field and meets with companies that offer the best technologies.
• Evaluates technologies for their impact and relevance for IQT’s partners’ missions.
• Supports the development of technical assessment reports and statements of work.
• Works with partners and potential partners on technical issues.
• Works with agency users and supports solution piloting.
• Participates in the oversight of work programs of IQT’s portfolio companies.
• Works with internal teams to support the investment lifecycle.

Skills

Strong writing

Technical writing

Public speaking

Education

Graduate student in engineering or science

Job description

In-Q-Tel offers a 12-week summer fellowship with the Technical Architect team. This internship focuses on identifying and evaluating technologies for intelligence and defense partners, spanning cyber, AI, unmanned systems, sensors, microelectronics, space tech, biology, quantum, and more.

Hybrid work (office & teleworking) in the US-VA McLean area with a strong emphasis on technical vetting, due diligence, and collaboration with portfolio companies.