Internship, Research Facilitator - Summer 2026

In this role, you will engage researchers in the use of a broad set of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure systems, tools, and software to enable research productivity. You will partner with researchers to co-create and co-learn relevant computing and data capabilities.

Key Activities

• Researcher Engagement: Regularly engage a broad set of researchers through support requests (i.e. ticketing systems, chats).

• Solutions Development: Help facilitate the design and debugging of research workflows alongside researchers and senior research facilitators.

• Partnership/Collaboration: Connect and coordinate interactions between researchers and technology providers.

• Documentation/Training: Enhance learning with full awareness of local research computing and data landscape. Help teach and train the basic use of CI for researchers.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years' relevant post-secondary education.

• Proven ability to work independently under direction and guidance from senior staff members.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills coupled with the ability to navigate a research environment.

• Competency in high- and low-level languages (Python, R,Matlab, C/C++,Fortran).

• Experience using workload managers and schedulers for High-Performance Computing (HPC).

• Parallel computing experience using MPI, Open MP, or CUDA.

• Experience with relational databases (Postgres, SQLite, etc.).

Please attachthe following with yourapplication:

• Resume

• UnofficialTranscript

• Cover Letter - Optional

Note: You will not be able to attach documents afterapplicationsubmission.

Posting Close Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026

Additional Information

How We Work:

• On-site, full-time with 5 days per month remote work flexibility

• Location:Kansas City, MO

• Remote Eligible: No

Pay Rate:

• $21.00 per hour

• Final offers aredeterminedby factors including the candidate's qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location.

ScreeningRequirements: Certain eligibility requirements apply.

Sponsorship: The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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