SDSC

HPC/CI Internships Openings:

The HPC/CI Training program has several wonderful and amazing interns who are graduating in June 2026! As a result, we have several openings available. Please check them out on this site and Handshake.

HPC Training interns work closely with SDSC staff and the HPC Training Working Group to develop, maintain, and disseminate training materials. Example responsibilities include:

  • Test and maintain Jupyter notebooks that run on Expanse and other HPC systems.
  • Maintain and develop GitHub repositories for training materials.
  • Integrate training events into training repositories and archives.
  • Develop scripts to automate creation of training pages and interactive video pages.
  • Create interactive training pages for events and modules.
  • Develop scripts to gather training metrics (e.g., downloads, clones, site visits).
  • Develop and test related applications, tools, and web pages.

Internships:

  • HPC Training Catalog LLM Developer (Open: 4/22/26-5/6/26)
    • General job description:
      • Develop and evaluate an LLM-powered assistant to help users discover, navigate, and apply HPC training materials (e.g., Expanse, NRP), including best practices, reproducible workflows, and troubleshooting guidance.
      • Design and implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines over SDSC training content, including slides, notebooks, documentation, videos, and catalog metadata, with source attribution and citation.
      • Build ingestion, indexing, and embedding workflows to support an AI-powered training catalog; iterate on prompts, evaluation methods, and user experience to improve accuracy and usefulness.
      • Integrate LLM capabilities with existing training websites and GitHub-hosted repositories supporting SDSC and NSF-funded training programs.
      • Collaborate with SDSC staff and training teams; contribute code, documentation, and experiments through GitHub.
    • Internship start/end dates: candidate must be available from summer 2026 to spring quarter, 2027.
    • Required skills include: AI/ML fundamentals; hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG); high-performance computing; Python; Jupyter notebooks; Git/GitHub; Linux/Unix.
    • Working knowledge of high-performance/parallel computing (HPC) and cyberinfrastructure
    • Preferred skills include: Familiarity with knowledge graph-based RAG approaches a plus; Vector databases and embedding models; LLM evaluation techniques; prompt engineering; basic web technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript); familiarity with research computing environments.
    • To Apply: Send email and resume to:
      • Mary Thomas (mpthomas at ucsd.edu), Mai Nguyen (mhnguyen at ucsd.edu), and Avery Blas (avblas at sdsc.edu)
      • Please use the following in your SUBJECT line:
      • SUBJECT: HPC Training Catalog LLM Developer, YourFirstName YourLastName

    •  
  • Interactive Video Developer (Open: 4/22/26-5/6/26)
    • General job description:
    • Internship start/end dates: candidate must be available from summer 2026 to spring quarter, 2027.
    • Required skills include: experience with Apache, Python, YouTube videos, databases, metadata/search, JSON, and related web technologies.
    • Working knowledge of high-performance/parallel computing (HPC) and cyberinfrastructure
    • Preferred skills include: Neo4j/knowledge graphs; fundamentals of AI/ML and LLMs.
    • To Apply: Send email and resume to:
      • Mary Thomas (mpthomas at ucsd.edu) and Avery Blas (avblas at sdsc.edu)
      • Please use the following in your SUBJECT line:
      • SUBJECT: Interactive Video Developer: YourFirstName YourLastName

     
  • Project Website Developer (Open: 4/22/26 - 5/1/2026)
    • General job description:
      • Support the SDSC HPC Training program by maintaining and developing websites for NSF-funded projects, including CIML (https://ciml.sdsc.edu/) and CIP-Fellows (https://cip-fellows.sdsc.edu/).
      • Facilitate and support website communications.
      • Ensure websites are up to date with the digital accessibility compliance policies https://business.sdsc.edu/policy/accessibility.html.
    • Internship start/end dates: Candidate can start now and must be available during summer 2026 through June 2027.
    • Required skills include: HTML5; experience developing websites using GitHub-hosted Jekyll themes; advanced Git/GitHub.
    • Preferred skills include: HTML/CSS/JavaScript; Liquid templating; Ruby and Bundler; experience with Apache, Python, YouTube, databases, metadata/search, JSON, and related web technologies; familiarity with HPC/CI.
    • To Apply: Send email and resume to:
      • Mary Thomas (mpthomas at ucsd.edu) and Avery Blas (avblas at sdsc.edu)
      • Please use the following in your SUBJECT line:
      • SUBJECT: HPC Training Website Developer Application: YourFirstName YourLastName

    •  
  • General Internship Opportunity (closed)
    • General job description:
      • Responsibilities vary by project and applicant interests. Example tasks include:
        • Create and manage GitHub repositories and materials (code, presentations, videos, etc.).
        • Support the Training Materials and Document system:
          • Integrate training events into training repositories/archives.
          • Develop scripts to pull data from the Cascade asset factory DB for documents and reporting.
          • Automate collection of repository materials (e.g., using Git submodules).
        • Test training materials, including tutorials and notebooks.
        • Assist in creating project/training websites and outreach materials to improve user success.
        • Develop scripts to gather training metrics (e.g., downloads, clones, site visits).
        • Work with datasets, taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs to describe training resources.
    • Internship start/end dates: ongoing; opportunities available during summer and fall.
    • Required skills include: experience with Apache, Python, YouTube videos, databases, metadata/search, JSON, and related web technologies.

General Qualifications Required for the Job:

  • Undergraduate or graduate working towards Bachelors of Science and/or Engineering, preferably in the fields of: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Electric Engineering.
  • Experience with Unix/Linux OS, GitHub, Slack, Discord are required.
  • For web based projects, knowledge of web technologies (e.g. Jekyll, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, REST) and programming (Python, pgi/cgi), Jupyter Notebooks) is required.
  • Experience and/or education in software development with at least one of the key scientific programming languages such as C, C++, Fortran.

Additional Qualifications:

  • Experience with AI/ML, taxonomies, ontologies and knowledge graphs is desirable.
  • Experience with parallel programming such as CUDA, MPI, OpenMP is desirable.
  • Responsible, self-motivated, able to work independently, meet project deadlines.
  • Must be able to work 6 hours a week (minimum) during academic year, and 20-40 hours in summer.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively and work on teams both local and remote.
  • Have paid UCSD Fall 2023 student services fees or Readmit to work during summer.

For more information please contact:

Mary Thomas (mpthomas at ucsd.edu)
Please use the following in your SUBJECT line:
      SUBJECT:  SDSC HPC-Train Internship Inquiry: YourFirstName YourLastName