The Path to Internship and Fellowship Opportunities
Want to make a difference and see your work directly impact science across the globe?
The Center for High Throughput Computing offers internship and summer fellowship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
The Mission
CHTC is a research computing organization located within the University of Wisconsin-Madison CS Department and at the Morgridge Institute for Research. CHTC is an internationally recognized leader in high throughput computing and provides access to free large-scale computing capacity for research. CHTC advances the field of research computing through innovative software and services, leading distributed computing projects across the campus and the nation.
The CHTC Fellows Program
Our Fellows Program provides undergraduate and graduate students with learning opportunities in research computing, system administration, and facilitation. Working with engineers and dedicated mentors, fellows will have the opportunity to learn from leaders in their field and access state of the art computing facilities. Fellows can also attend workshops, lectures and social and recreational events with CHTC team members. Learn About CHTC Fellows Program
We Value Diversity
CHTC and Morgridge are committed to increasing diversity among interns and staff. We believe that advancing throughput computing and scientific research is enhanced by a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
Student Hourly Positions (Undergrad and Grad)
We're always looking for smart motivated students to partner with software developer and system administrator mentors. We expect students to work between 10 and 20 hours a week, with 10 of those being during business hours, with some flexibility on remaining hours. During the summer and breaks, it is possible to work up to 29 hours per week.
Systems Administrator Intern
The Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) partners with a broad range of scientists to provide computing services for the UW-Madison campus and the nation. We are seeking students looking to work between 10 and 15 hours per week as mutually agreed upon, starting January 2026 to assist our systems administrators and to gain valuable training and education on state-of-the-art hardware, complex systems and leading technologies. This position offers high value learning opportunities in a collaborative, flexible and supportive working environment. The is an excellent career building position for candidates interested in learning a diverse set of technologies. CHTC manages over 500 Linux servers and network devices, providing services such as Kubernetes, distributed file systems, batch systems, and databases. The administrator assistant will help with the provisioning and management of hardware and OS infrastructure; on-the-job training will be provided on industry-standard tools for these activities. Work is normally performed during typical office hours in the office in Morgridge Hall.
Systems Integration Intern
The Research Computing group at the Morgridge Institute for Research partners with a broad range of scientists to provide computing services for the Institute, the UW-Madison campus as part of the Center for High Throughput Computing, and the nation.
A common theme the group faces is figuring out how get the tools researchers already use to work with high throughput computing systems like the HTCondor Software Suite (HTCSS) and the Pelican Platform.
One piece of software we’ve identified as having the potential for high impact is the Snakemake workflow management tool. Snakemake is a Python package that lets users define Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) workflows “via an easy to read, adaptable, [and] powerful specification language on top of Python,” and a growing number of researchers have asked about using HTCondor as the computational backend for their established Snakemake pipelines.
We are seeking a student looking to work in-person between 10 and 20 per week, as mutually agreed upon, to assist in turning our proof-of-concept Snakemake+HTCondor integrations into a polished, well-documented tool that researchers from all backgrounds can pick up and use off the shelf.
The student intern will become an expert in Snakemake and HTCondor workflow management, and they’ll use this expertise to identify and polish any rough edges that exist between it and the HTCondor Software Suite and the Pelican Platform. They’ll also work closely with stakeholders to write clear documentation and provide easy-to-understand examples.
Questions: chtc-jobs@g-groups.wisc.edu