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SSEC Summer Internship Program

Apply now(opens in a new window) Job No: 510991
Division/Organization: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Department: Space Science & Engineering Center
Job Type: UW Student Jobs
Remote Eligbility: Not Remote
Location: ATMOSPHERIC OCEANIC&SPACE SCI
Salary/Wage Range or Lump Sum: $17.00
Job Categories: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Digital Technology, Teamwork/Collaboration, Information Technology and Computers, STEM

Department Overview:

 The University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is a research and development center with an international reputation for developing instrumentation for both terrestrial and space flight applications. SEEC's mission includes the support of faculty and academic staff research, development, fabrication and implementation of space flight experiments, as well as the development of new meteorological research tools for national and international use.

Our internship provides highly motivated students an opportunity to apply their abilities in support of cutting-edge atmospheric research. From year to year projects may include a combination of designing, monitoring, and debugging data ingest archival systems; creating and maintaining data analysis tools; and calibration, processing and visualization of atmospheric data collected from ground, aircraft or satellite based instrumentation in collaboration with partners and funders that include NOAA, NASA, NSF and DOE.

Interns will work individually with SSEC researchers to define the work to be completed. The intern will be provided with self guided tutorials on the programming languages and other tools that will be used for the summer projects. Access to experts within our scientific teams will be available as a resource throughout the summer for questions on the tutorials and summer projects.

Anticipated Start Date:

 6/1/2026

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

 8/7/2026

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Not Remote

 

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

 40

Schedule:

 Monday - Friday, between 8am - 5pm

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

 $17.00

Number of Positions:

 9

Qualifications:

 Must be currently enrolled for Summer or Fall 2025 at an accredited U.S. higher education institution.
-Undergraduates currently completing their freshman year or higher are eligible.
-Graduate students (including Professional MS students) are eligible.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. Some positions may require U.S. citizenship or permanent residency due to funding restrictions. If offered a position, F visa students would need to work with their home institution to obtain necessary authorizations.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Experience with any of the following; Communications, web development, data wrangling, dashboarding git, docker/podman, FPGAs, Python, or Java are highly desired.

Position Summary/Job Duties:

To be considered for employment, candidates MUST submit a resume and a cover letter that includes the following information:
- Statement of interest to work at the SSEC.
- Example of a relevant project that exemplifies your passion and drive.
- Up to 3 research projects from the list below that you want to work on and why you would be a good fit. Please list the number that corresponds to the description.
Application materials that do not contain the above requirements will not be considered.

1) Measurements and analysis of aerosol chemistry from the mobile SSEC Portable Atmospheric Research Center (SPARC).

2) Development and demonstration of Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution for demodulating data from L-band and X-band LEO satellites including Metop and JPSS.

3) Configure, validate & automate python scientific data processing pipeline for the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) instrument.

4) Develop code tools to help the science team of the ongoing NASA PREFIRE mission (which is measuring Earth’s global far-infrared spectrum) identify signatures in the data stream which will help the team better focus further science data product improvement.

5) Create a tool to quickly visualize satellite-derived atmospheric cloud products on a website for the UW/CIMSS Atmospheric Cloud group.

6) Working on a suite of data delivery, visualization and analysis software packages called McIDAS, programming in either Java or Python.

7) Develop Python code to visualize and compare cloud properties retrieved from two different satellite platforms, investigating cloud phase and microphysical properties in a variety of environmental conditions.

8) Develop K-12 curriculum and website for teachers that allows students to learn remote sensing concepts by comparing field data with satellite Earth observation data.

9) Assist the SSEC webmaster supporting the SSEC/CIMSS mission by helping develop and maintain SSEC/CIMSS website and web applications utilizing React and WordPress.

More information available at https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/summer-internships/

Physical Demands:

N/A

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
 
 

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