Full Stack Web Developer Internship

Team Description:

Kitware’s Data and Analytics team helps internal and external customers deliver their next data and AI workflows with our expertise in emerging web and software infrastructure technologies. The Data and Analytics team fosters a collaborative atmosphere where we pride ourselves on the proactive exchange of ideas.

About the Projects:

Kitware collaborates on a multitude of basic and applied research and development aimed to improve critical issues in today's world in order to advance health care, improve national security, combat human trafficking, and understand climate change. Our collaborators include top universities from around the world, national research labs, medical device manufacturers, car manufacturers, financial institutions, government agencies, and many others. The projects range from extending our open source libraries and applications to developing proprietary domain-specific vertical applications for a wide array of platforms including web and mobile devices. The Data and Analytics team focuses on building Python and JavaScript-based web applications that provide solutions for data management, analysis, and visualization.

Some Tools We Use:

Django - Postgres - Celery - Vue.js - GitHub

Some Typical Types of Projects We Work On:

- Building data management platforms for scientific datasets that allow researchers to store, query, and filter datasets for cohorts of interest and download the relevant raw data and metadata

- Creating custom software systems to manage business processes for commercial customers wanting to automate manual workflows. The tasks can range from satellite image annotation to medical image segmentation and visualization for surgical planning.

- Turning customers' specialized algorithms into well-engineered, reliable, and efficient systems to which end users bring their own data to process, typically including a visualization or reporting component for the results

• Proficiency in Python and JavaScript programming
• Enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree program in computer science or a related field
• Graduating and anticipating full-time employment by Summer 2026
• Demonstrated software development experience, e.g., active GitHub account, successful school or co-op projects, programming competitions, or documented open-source contributions
• Enthusiasm for programming, learning, problem solving, and tracking software technology trends
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills
• Understanding of algorithms, computer systems, programming language constructs, and design patterns

• Web software development experience, including REST services, web application security, client side HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript (ES6, Webpack, Vue.js or other reactive frameworks)
• Experience with web server environments such as Node.js, Django, or Flask
• Database management systems such as MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Familiarity with high-quality software processes, such as unit and integration testing, revision control (Git), documentation, software review, and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD)
• Data science tools, including NumPy, Pandas, Jupyter/IPython, R, machine learning tools, data cleaning tools
• Third-party cloud service platforms such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure
• DevOps tools, such as Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.
• Good eye for aesthetic and intuitive user interfaces
• Web visualization technologies such as D3, WebGL, and HTML5 Canvas

$30 - $50 an hour

Company Description:

Kitware is a research and development software solutions provider with a mission to advance science, make a positive impact, and share our results all within a collaborative, employee-focused work environment that is friendly, fair, and flexible. Our work is improving healthcare outcomes, increasing national security, and advancing our national computing infrastructure. Our customers and collaborators include top universities from around the world, government organizations, national research labs, medical device manufacturers, car manufacturers, financial institutions, and many others.

Kitware is proud to be 100% employee-owned, and Great Place to Work-Certified™.

Additional Information:

Kitware actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, protected veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Any unsolicited resume sent to Kitware, including to Kitware's mailing addresses, fax machines or email addresses, whether directly to Kitware employees or to Kitware's applicant tracking system, will be considered Kitware property. Kitware will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, and will consider any candidate submitted by a recruitment agency without a fully executed contract with Kitware to have been referred free of any charges or fees.

If you need assistance with applying or interviewing for a role due to a disability or special need, please reach out directly to our HR team at [email protected] at any time during the hiring process.