Intern, R&D Graduate Summer - Computational Materials Science, Hybrid

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a Summer R&D Graduate Intern to join our dynamic computational materials science team. Are you ready to apply your skills in materials modeling to the nation's challenges? Apply for our summer 2026 internship.

• Simulate atomistic, molecular, or grain-scale phenomena to understand and predict material behavior during manufacturing, performance, or aging.
• Apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to advance simulation methods, enable high-throughput workflows, or discover data-driven process-property-performance relationships.
• Visualize and interpret data using appropriate software tools and analysis methods.
• Collaborate with your technical mentor and research team to plan and execute your project.
• Contribute to publications, presentations, and technical reports to communicate your results.
• Grow your research skills in a high-performing research team.

Students will be expected to demonstrate increasing levels of independence and responsibility and show a commitment to operate in and contribute to a safe operating environment.

The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite work. The selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

At Sandia, we value the important work done by our interns and its contribution to National Security. Because of this, our interns earn competitive pay rates. Our pay structure is based on earned credit hours, classification, and degree level. Your pay rate will be determined during the hire process and included in your offer package. You can view the Intern Pay Rate chart here (https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).)

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You bring the confidence and skills to be eligible for the job by meeting these minimum requirements:

• Earned bachelor's degree
• Currently attending and enrolled full time in the spring term immediately preceding the internship (or scheduled to graduate in the spring) in an accredited science, engineering, or math graduate program
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Ability to work up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, asylees or refugees in the U.S.

Note:

If you have not yet started your graduate program, please apply to an undergraduate intern position.

• Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Eng., Mechanical Eng., Nuclear Eng., or relevant major.
• Experience conducting simulation and analysis.
• Proficiency with scripting for scientific analysis using languages like Python, MATLAB, R, or similar.
• Proven ability to succeed through teaming with others.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and present technical ideas in oral and written form.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

The Computational Materials Science Department applies materials modeling on multiple length scales to accelerate engineering solutions and drive materials discovery and design for Sandia's missions. Our expertise spans a diversity of materials (including polymers, ceramics, composites, alloys, ferroelectrics, and metal-organic frameworks) and a breadth of computational methods from density functional theory and molecular dynamics to microstructure-informed engineering simulations.

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

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* These benefits vary by job classification.

This position does not currently require a Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance.

Sandia will conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Furthermore, employees in New Mexico need to pass a U.S. Air Force…