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- Posted Oct 28
- Last verified Nov 2
About the job
Your success is a train ride away!
As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.
Are you ready to join our team?
Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.
JOB SUMMARY:
Summer 2027 internship program will run from May 17th - August 6, 2027.
This system engineer – intern position will be responsible for application development work for ACMS (asset condition monitoring system) which involves IOT (wayside scanner & onboard train data) management and advance analytics.
This role should have significant technical knowledge to support, design, develop and deploy solutions with moderate level of supervision.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Resource will work closely with vendors and other teams to design, develop and deliver moderate complexity solutions and projects.
- Collaborate with customers, business analysts and team members to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions.
- Ability to write scripts in a variety of languages for both problem solving and visualization.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must be actively pursuing a degree at an accredited educational institution.
- Must be actively pursuing an undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science or a related field.
- Must have at least 1 year of academic undergraduate studies completed or a sophomore status at minimum.
- Must have a cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher.
- Knowledge of various Image Processing techniques.
- Knowledge of programming languages - Python and Java.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficient in usage of tools for Python (Jupyter Notebooks, NumPy, SciPy, OpenCV, Matplotlib) or MATLAB (Image or Signal Processing Toolboxes).
- Basic knowledge of databases, sql.
- Basic Understanding of any web application framework and associated development processes.
- Machine Learning or computer vision algorithm development.
- Experience with Open CV, PyTorch/TensorFlow.
- Experience and knowledge in Data analysis and imaging science applications.