Job Details

Intern

Position Number: 9947672
Location: Salt Lake City, United States
Position Type: Computing - Network/System Administration

Intern

Job Summary

The Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) is seeking to fill part-time positions that support CHPC's mission to enable research and innovation through advanced computing infrastructure, technical services, and user support at the University of Utah. Program participants will receive hands-on experience in a professional technical environment. Positions are structured to provide meaningful project work, defined learning or professional development objectives, and supervised access to CHPC systems appropriate to the role.

The Center for High Performance Computing is looking for a student intern to work with a team of students and full-time employees to use AI and Large Language Models to look at web content, network content, and configuration content in order to provide feedback.

The student will be learning about monitoring protocols such as SNMP, sFlow, NetFlow, IPFIX. The student will also use tools such as traceroute, perfSONAR, pScheduler, and mLabs NDT. The student will utilize this knowledge to develop instrumentation and visualization of different systems that comprise a typical datacenter. The student will also learn about containers and automated provisioning.

The student will need to demonstrate basic programming skills and scripting skills. The student should be able to work tightly in a team environment.

The student will be working in a team environment with individual responsibilities. The student must be able to both work alone and work in a team. The student must be able to communicate well with others, both written and verbally. Part of the responsibilities will be to document work, document code, and document aspects of a datacenter.

Responsibilities

Go through a series of tutorials and reading which we will provide
Participate in CHPC training courses
learn to install applications in containers
learn how to create basic web bots and other agents
Work with tools such as Grafana, Performance Co-Pilot, influxdb, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, perfSONAR
Learn how to utilize different large language models
Learn to pull information from network equipment, computer equipment, power equipment, infrastructure instrumentation
Learn to analyze computer networks for anomalies
Contribute to the creation digital twin

Minimum Qualifications
EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor's degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).
Program Assistant, I: Requires little to no related experience.

aggressive learning attitude and willingness to jump in and try things
ability to learn by reading, using search engines, and other sources
ability to run with a topic with full self motivation

Preferences
Preferences:

currently enrolled undergraduate student
familiarity with scripting, i.e. Bash, zsh, powershell
familiarity with databases
familiarity with git version control system
familiarity with databases
familiarity with containers, i.e. Docker, LXD, Rocket, LXC, Charliecloud, etc.
familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef,
familiarity with GitHub, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines
familiarity with YAML for configuration
familiarity with different LLM engines and models
basic working knowledge of a command line interface, preferably Linux
some demonstrated experience with programming or scripting languages, e.g. C, Python, Go, PERL, Java, C++, etc.
demonstrated technical writing skills for documentation, including diagramming

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN17534N
Full Time or Part Time? Part Time
Work Schedule Summary: Monday-Friday between 8am-5pm
Department: 00640 - CHPC Ctr for High Perform Computing
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: $17/hour
Close Date: 01/13/2027
Open Until Filled:

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