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Graduate (Year-Round) Intern – Software Development for Mesh and Domain Discretization

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 12, 2024

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Software Engineering
  • $42.7K - $68.3K
  • Golden
    Remote

Requirements

  • Basic Qualifications:
  • Minimum of a 3.0 cumulative grade point average.
  • Undergraduate: Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a bachelor’s degree program from an accredited institution.
  • Post Undergraduate: Earned a bachelor’s degree within the past 12 months. Eligible for an internship period of up to one year.
  • Graduate: Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a master’s degree program from an accredited institution.
  • Post Graduate: Earned a master’s degree within the past 12 months. Eligible for an internship period of up to one year.
  • Graduate + PhD: Completed master’s degree and enrolled as PhD student from an accredited institution.
  • Additional Required Qualifications:
  • Candidates should have experience developing packages in Python and experience with object-oriented programming.
  • Candidates should have experience with mesh generation (e.g. Gmsh), finite elements, or other discretizing techniques.
  • Candidates should have experience collaborating with a team using version control software (e.g., Git)
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience using the open-source solver package FEniCS
  • Experience setting up and/or executing CFD simulations
  • Experience interacting with HPC systems and job schedulers (e.g., Slurm)

Responsibilities

  • Closely collaborate with domain experts to develop mesh-generation tools.
  • Demonstrate mesh- generation approaches in standalone codes (e.g., Jupyter notebooks) where element size is driven by specification of multiple local length scales.
  • Test approaches to ensure robustness on multiple domains, windfarm layouts, etc.
  • Implement new methods in the existing WindSE code base, refactor existing WindSE refinement input parameters to better align with new length-scale specification.
  • Compare old and new mesh-generation approaches.
  • Contribute to presentations and proposals to sustain research directions.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Science & Healthcare
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1977
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a Department of Energy national lab, is #TransformingEnergy as the nation's primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. NREL's Mission: NREL develops renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and practices, advances related science and engineering, and transfers knowledge and innovations to address the nation's energy and environmental goals. NREL's Strategy: NREL has forged a focused strategic direction to increase its impact on the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) and our nation's energy goals by accelerating the research path from scientific innovations to market-viable alternative energy solutions.