2027 Library Science Intern

The role

You will build vocabularies, hierarchies, and metadata standards to give factory data meaning. You will work alongside data and manufacturing engineers to structure plant-floor data.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain controlled vocabularies for equipment, materials, processes, and locations.
• Build asset hierarchies and naming conventions.
• Write and apply metadata schemas for industrial data sources.
• Catalog data sources and maintain entries in the team's data catalog.
• Audit existing tags and data models for inconsistency and gaps.
• Document standards and authoring guidelines.
• Work with data and manufacturing engineers to check models.
• Present work to the team at the end of the session.

Required qualifications

• Must be pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Library Science, Information Science, Knowledge Management, Archival Studies, Linguistics, or a related field.
• Must be returning to school at the end of the internship to continue academic studies for at least one quarter or semester.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
• Ability to complete a 12 week in-person internship in one of our offices in summer 2027.

Nice to have

• Coursework or project experience in metadata, cataloging, taxonomy, controlled vocabularies, or classification systems.
• Attention to detail, and patience for working through ambiguity toward a consistent structure.
• Clear writing, particularly for documentation meant to outlast its author.
• Familiarity with metadata standards and modeling approaches (Dublin Core, SKOS, RDF, OWL, or similar).
• Exposure to data catalog tooling, knowledge graphs, or ontology editors such as Protégé.
• Basic scripting in Python or SQL for inspecting and transforming data.
• Interest in manufacturing and the physical systems behind the data.
• Coursework in digital curation, data governance, or information architecture.

Before you apply

• U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.