Employment Opportunities

Student Opportunities

We are always looking for ways to connect CU Boulder students with professional opportunities. From internships to externships to research projects, you can find opportunities here.

If you have a student opportunity that you would like to advertise, please contact Julie Kazimer at j ulie.kazimer@colorado.edu.

Current Student Opportunities

Undergraduate Student Summer Internship: Hypersonics Workforce Development

Description:

The Department of Defense is interested in studying approaches to graduate education for the topic of Hypersonics that involves very high-speed air vehicles. Hypersonics is an example of a niche technical area that has suddenly become of great interest. It is an area that has a need to educate a large number of students and people already in the workforce in a short space of time.

The Center for National Security Initiatives (NSI) at CU Boulder is seeking to hire three (3) undergraduate interns who will work on three aspects of this problem:

Document the design and experience of a Graduate Certificate in Hypersonics that was established at the University of Colorado in 2021;
Survey other Graduate Certificate programs across U.S. universities in hypersonics and in other similar technical fields; and
Survey the Hypersonics workforce needs of industry and government

Internship details:

11 weeks, 40 hours per week at $20/hour
Can work at the Center for National Security Initiatives or remote
Must be completed over the summer term at CU Boulder
Interns must be US citizens (sponsor requirement)

Application details:

Please submit a resume and cover letter outlining your qualifications and interest in the NSI internship. Your materials should connect to both the internship and NSI overall.
Submit your application to Tasha Abbott, Operations Manager at NSI, at tasha.abbott@colorado.edu

Closed Opportunities

Designing for Defense (D4D) Course

Designing for Defense is a semester-long course at leading United States universities that provides United States Department of Defense (DoD) leaders with the opportunity to collaborate with talented student teams to develop innovative solutions to their most pressing national security problems. This course is run in collaboration with many U.S. national security organizations that connect university students with impactful DoD problems.

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Principal Program Manager, National Security Initiatives

The Center for National Security Initiatives (NSI) within RIO encourages applications for a Principal Program Manager (PM)! This position will report directly to the Executive Associate Director of NSI and is responsible for Strategic Business Development and for advising the lifecycle management of multiple sponsored research projects across federal and industry sponsors associated with the National Security research portfolio. The Principal PM will be responsible for leading Dedicated NSI Researchers in the pursuit and execution of national security research programs.

The Principal PM is responsible for leading and driving the NSI business capture processes in concert with the NSI Executive Director, Executive Associate Director, NSI Dedicated Researchers, University staff and appropriate faculty Primary Investigators (PIs). The Principal PM will create, identify, pursue, develop, and bid research proposals in support of national defense and aerospace and defense industry partners in high priority mission areas that use CU Boulder core research strengths including Hypersonics; Space Domain Awareness; Positioning, Navigation, and Timing; Autonomous Systems, RF Engineering, and Cybersecurity. The Principal PM will be responsible for cost, schedule, and performance aspects of numerous multi-disciplinary/multi-faculty initiatives.

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Research Associate / Senior Research Associate

Develop and execute on research proposals, key research tasks, and deliverables in support of DoD, IC, and Aerospace and Defense Industry customers Develop a nationally recognized research program in National Security that strategically supports the missions of NSI and the National Security enterprise. Provide technical leadership of research projects or project subtasks and coordinate across academic departments and research groups for interdisciplinary efforts Summarize results and provide required documentation and SW/HW deliverables to sponsors.

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