Spring 2027 Intern - Technology Research & Data Engineering Intern

Responsibilities This is for a SPRING internship begining in January 2027. Expected hours are 10-20 hours a week. The internship will run until April 2027. Noblis is seeking a motivated intern to support a technology scouting and risk assessment platform project that helps U.S. government decision makers identify, monitor, and evaluate emerging technologies with national security implications. The platform integrates open-source data from academic research, global news, patents, government funding sources, and other publicly available repositories, then applies advanced analytics, including machine learning, natural language processing, and structured analytic techniques, to surface insights and assess technology risk. The intern will join a small, high-impact engineering team working in an agile environment to expand the platform's data coverage and enhance its software capabilities. Job Responsibilities Data Discovery, Integration and Pipeline Development Research, identify, and evaluate new open-source datasets relevant to technology scouting and national security analysis Develop and maintain ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to ingest data across multiple formats including structured data, documents (Word, Excel, PDF), and streaming sources Assess data quality, relevance, and coverage gaps to prioritize new data source integration Document data source characteristics, schemas, licensing, and access methods Support data normalization and transformation to align new