NSAW Summer Internship Program

Department of Defense › National Security Agency/Central Security Service (12 current openings)

Fort Meade, Maryland

Full-time Security Clearance: Top Secret

Application Deadline:

2026-09-05

Posted:

2026-08-15

About 3 weeks left

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Salary: $41,659 – $91,815 per year (GG-4/9)

Salary context

Based on 77 annual-salary jobs in the same occupational series. This role pays below most similar positions.

Job Details

Position Overview

Join students from across the country and lend your knowledge to national security in one of NSA's over 30 summer internship programs. These 12 week paid programs run from mid-May to mid-August and are open to undergraduate freshman up to Ph.D. students depending on internship requirements. These internships are open to a wide variety of majors and give students the opportunity to work directly with mission-critical problems and experience the excitement of working in NSA spaces.

Duties

The NSA Summer Internship Programs at our Fort Meade, MD location offers students exciting, impactful professional work opportunities (with pay and limited benefits!) to grow their knowledge of the Intelligence Community and federal government while advancing NSA's two primary missions: 1) Collecting, analyzing, and producing foreign signals intelligence; and 2) Providing cybersecurity solutions and guidance to protect critical national infrastructure. These summer internship opportunities are open to students who are pursuing education in a variety of degree programs.

Qualifications & Requirements

To be accepted into the NSA Summer Internship - Cyber Summer Program, candidates
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must be enrolled in a degree-seeking program (undergraduate, graduate, doctorate) at time of application - Specific education requirements vary by program
- Preferred cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Must be eligible to be granted a TS/SCI security clearance after successfully completing a background investigation, a Full-scope Polygraph and a Psychological Evaluation
- Must be available and in the U.S. for operational and technical interviews and other applicable processing, both in-person and via telephone/internet, between the months of October 2026 and April 2027

Education

Preferred majors:
- Computer Engineering
- Mathematics
- Data Science
- Physics
- Information Systems
- Cybersecurity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Engineering or closely related field,

such as:
- Industrial Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Computer Network Engineer
- Computer Engineer
- Electrical Engineer
- Civil Engineer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Mathematics or closely related field, such as:
- Data Science
- Statistics

Conditions of Employment

All applicants and employees are subject to random drug testing in accordance with Executive Order 12564

Evaluations

To apply for this position, please click the `Apply' button located at the top right of this posting. After completing the application for the first time, or reviewing previously entered information, and clicking the `Submit' button, you will receive a confirmation email. Please ensure your spam filters are configured to accept emails from [email protected].

***PLEASE NOTE: To be considered for our Summer Internships, you must submit a COMPLETE application package by 5 September 11:59pm EST for all Summer Internship Programs. Your application package MUST include:

Required Documents

The National Security Agency (NSA) is part of the DoD Intelligence Community Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). All positions in the NSA are in the Excepted Services under 10 United States Codes (USC) 1601 appointment authority. DoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans' Preference to eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you may be asked to submit documents verifying your eligibility.

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