Job Description

At the SEI CERT Cyber Risk and Resilience Directorate, we enable organizations to achieve operational resilience by performing research in emerging areas of operational risk, producing measurement and assessment tools that help organizations better understand their current risk and resilience posture, and developing and validating models, frameworks, and controls that improve organizations' risk and resilience posture. The Insider Risk team focuses its research on developing methods for preventing, detecting, and mitigating insider risk.

Fundamental to our insider risk work is our large corpus of insider threat data, called MERIT. The intern will work with SEI staff to collect, interpret, and visualize data from MERIT in preparation for publication of a report on trends in insider threat. Contributions from the internship could extend into research on patterns and trends in insider threat data, web front end development, or identification of new data types for collection.

Requirements:

• Current enrollment in an undergraduate or graduate degree granting program.

• Able to work an internship schedule during the summer semester.

• Able to come on-site to the SEI Pittsburgh office.

• Candidates will be subject to a background check.

• Candidates for this position must be eligible to work in the United States without Visa sponsorship.

• Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work for CMU in the United States. CMU will not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this opportunity.
  

Relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities include:

• At least 2 semesters of courses related to data science or data analysis (data science, statistics, data visualization, programming for data science, machine learning, etc.)

• Basic proficiency in programming for data science (preferably Python)

• Strong writing skills

Ideal candidate would also have:

• Strong Python programming skills

• Basic machine learning skills

Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Job Function

Non-CMU Students

Position Type

Intern (Fixed Term)

Full time/Part time

Full time

Pay Basis

Hourly

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Job Tags

Hourly pay, Holiday work, Full time, Part time, Fixed term contract, Work experience placement, Summer work,

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