Undergraduate Internship and Research Opportunities

We’ve assembled a list of undergraduate opportunities we’re aware of in HPC, computational science, or data science. This list is certainly not complete, so if you know of additional opportunities, please email us at chair at sighpcedu dot com and we’ll add it here!

Program: Los Alamos National Lab Supercomputer Institute
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Dates: Late May – early August 2025.
Eligibility: US citizens.
Applications Due: January 7, 2025.

Program: Los Alamos National Lab Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Dates: June 2 - August 8, 2025.
Eligibility: Rising junior or senior; US citizens.
Applications Due: January 15, 2025.

Program: Los Alamos National Lab Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Dates: 10 weeks, summer 2025.
Eligibility: Rising junior or senior; US citizen.
Applications Due: January 15, 2025.

Program: Flatiron Institute - Simons Foundation, Center for Computational Neuroscience
Location: New York City, NY
Dates: May 27 - August 8, 2025.
Eligibility: Enrolled undergraduate or graduate.
Applications Due: January 17, 2025.

Program: Flatiron Institute - Simons Foundation, Center for Computational Quantum Physics
Location: New York City, NY
Dates: May 27 - August 8, 2025.
Eligibility: Enrolled undergraduate or graduate.
Applications Due: January 17, 2025.

Program: Flatiron Institute - Simons Foundation, Center for Computational Mathematics
Location: New York City, NY
Dates: May 27 - August 8, 2025.
Eligibility: Enrolled undergraduate or graduate.
Applications Due: January 17, 2025.

Program: Flatiron Institute - Simons Foundation, Center for Computational Catalysis
Location: New York City, NY
Dates: May 27 - August 8, 2025.
Eligibility: Enrolled undergraduate or graduate.
Applications Due: January 17, 2025.

Program: Los Alamos National Lab Quantum Computing Summer School Fellowship
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Dates: June 2 – August 8, 2025.
Eligibility: US work eligibility.
Applications Due: January 19, 2025.

Program: NCAR Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS)
Location: Boulder, CO
Dates: May 19 - August 1, 2025.
Eligibility: Completed one year of undergraduate work and able to work in the US.
Applications Due: January 22, 2025.

Program: Unidata Summer Internship
Location: Boulder, CO, hybrid, or remote.
Dates: May 19 – August 1, 2025.
Eligibility: Juniors and seniors.
Applications Due: January 24, 2025.

Program: Lawrence Livermore National Lab HPC Cluster Engineer Academy
Location: Livermore, CA
Dates: A 9-week subset of May 5 - August 29, 2025.
Eligiblity: Enrolled undergraduate.
Applications Due: January 31, 2025.

Program: Lawrence Livermore National Lab DevOps Internship Team
Location: Livermore, CA
Dates: A 9-week subset of May 5 - August 29, 2025.
Eligiblity: Enrolled undergraduate.
Applications Due: January 31, 2025.

Program: Lawrence Livermore National Lab Computing Undergraduate Student Intern
Location: Livermore, CA
Dates: A subset of May 5 – August 29, 2025.
Eligibility: US work eligibility.
Applications Due: January 31, 2025.

Program: Lawrence Livermore National Lab Data Science Summer Institute
Location: Livermore, CA
Dates: May 19 - August 8, 2025 or June 23 - September 12, 2024.
Eligiblity: Enrolled undergraduate.
Applications Due: January 31, 2025.

Program: NIST SURF program
Location: Gaithersburg, MD; Boulder, CO; or remote
Dates: May 19 – August 1, 2025, with alternate dates June 2 – August 15, 2025 and June 2 – August 1, 2025.
Eligibility: US citizen or permanent resident. First-years are encouraged.
Applications Due: January 31, 2025.

Program: Carnegie Mellon University Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Engineering (REUSE) Program
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Dates: May 27 - August 1, 2025.
Eligibility: Undergrads, but focus on 1st and 2nd-year undergrads.
Applications Due: February 1, 2025.

Program: Georgetown REU Site in Computer Science and Public Policy
Location: Washington, DC.
Dates: June 7 - August 7, 2025.
Eligibility: US citizens or permanent residents who are current 2nd- or 3rd-year undergrads and CS majors.
Applications Due: February 2, 2025.

Program: University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (RISC)
Location: Primarily virtual, with in-person events in College Park, MD during the final week.
Dates: 10 weeks, May – August 2025.
Eligibility: US citizens, sophomores or older.
Applications Due: February 3, 2025.

Program: Los Alamos National Lab Data Science at Scale
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Dates: 10-12 weeks between May and September 2025.
Eligibility: US work eligibility.
Applications Due: February 5, 2025.

Program: TACC SCIPE AI in Civil Engineering
Location: Austin, TX
Dates: June 1 - June 30, 2025.
Eligibility: Rising sophomores or older studying at a US institution.
Applications Due: February 7, 2025.

Program: Washington University in St. Louis CSE Research Experience for Undergraduates
Location: St. Louis, MO.
Dates: May 25 - August 1, 2025.
Eligibility: Enrolled undergrads, including international students.
Applications Due: February 14, 2025.

Program: Los Alamos National Laboratory Computational Sciences Undergraduate Internship
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Dates: Summer 2025.
Eligibility: US citizen.
Applications Due: February 14, 2025.

Program: Purdue Anvil Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Location: West Lafayette, IN
Dates: May 26 - August 8, 2025.
Eligibility: U.S. Citizen or permanent resident enrolled as an undergrad at a US institution.
Applications Due: February 15, 2025 (may close sooner).

Program: ACCESS Student Training and Engagement Program (STEP)
Location: Initial training in Miami, FL; work done both in Urbana-Champaign, IL and virtually
Dates: May 12 - May 25 in Miami; June 9-July in Champaign; July-August 1 virtually
Eligibility: Undergraduate and graduate students attending US-based institutions. Priority given to underrepresented populations in STEM.
Applications Due: February 15, 2025.

Program: CRA Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)
Location: Varies
Dates: May – September 2025, students and mentors decide specific dates
Eligibility: Undergrads at US institutions. Most funds are reserved for US citizens and permanent residents. Priority is given to students from underrepresented groups.
Applications Due: December 1, 2024 (early deadline); February 25, 2025 (general deadline).

Program: UW Eau-Claire REU: Advancing high-performance computing opportunities in undergraduate research at UW-Eau Claire to meet challenges of multidisciplinary computational science
Location: Eau Claire, WI
Dates: June 1 - August 2, 2025.
Eligibility: US citizen or permanent resident.
Applications Due: March 1, 2025.

Program: Temple University High Performance Computing (HPC) Tools, Techniques, and Research across the Physical Sciences REU
Location: Philadelphia, PA.
Dates: May 27 - July 31, 2025.
Eligibility: US citizen or permanent resident. Women, underrepresented minorities, and students from institutions with limited research opportunities are especially encouraged to apply.
Applications Due: March 7, 2025.

Program: University of Houston Frontiers of Data-Driven Computing REU
Location: Houston, TX
Dates: May 26 - August 2, 2025.
Eligibility: US citizen or permanent resident. Rising juniors and seniors favored.
Priority deadline March 10, 2025; accepted through April 2, 2025.

Program: Arizona State University SenSIP REU Site: Quantum Machine Learning Algorithm Design and Implementation
Location: Tempe, AZ
Dates: May 14 - July 9, 2025.
Eligibility: US citizen or permanent resident.
Applications Due: March 15, 2025, but will accept applications until slots are full.

Program: TACC Cyberinfrastructure Research for Social Change (NSF REU)
Location: Austin, TX
Dates: June 2 - August 1, 2025.
Eligibility: Enrolled undergrads, 18+ at the start of the program. US citizens and permanent residents, with one additional spot for someone who doesn’t meet these criteria.
Applications Due: April 1, 2025 (open January 20, 2025).

Program: LBNL/NERSC Computing Sciences Student Program
Location: Berkeley, CA
Dates: 10-12 weeks, varies by project
Eligibility: US university enrollment.
Applications Due: Rolling

Program: NERSC Scientific Networking Summer Student Assistant
Location: Berkeley, CA; Champaign, IL; or remote, depending on project
Dates: June 2 – August 22, 2025.
Eligibility: US university enrollment.
Applications Due: Rolling

Program: NVIDIA Internships: Software Engineering
Location: Santa Clara, CA or remote
Dates: 12 weeks, May – September 2025
Eligibility: Enrolled undergrad
Applications Due: Rolling

Program: NVIDIA Internships: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
Location: Santa Clara, CA or remote
Dates: 12 weeks, May – September 2025
Eligibility: Enrolled undergrad
Applications Due: Rolling

Program: NVIDIA Internships: Deep Learning Computer Architecture
Location: Santa Clara, CA or remote
Dates: 12 weeks, May – September 2025
Eligibility: Enrolled undergrad
Applications Due: Rolling

Program: NVIDIA Internships: Computer Architecture
Location: Santa Clara, CA or remote
Dates: 12 weeks, May – September 2025
Eligibility: Enrolled undergrad
Applications Due: Rolling

Program: NERSC Summer Internships
Location: Berkeley, CA
Dates: Varies by project
Eligibility: Rising seniors.
Applications Due: Rolling