Remote Information Technology (IT) Internship Opportunity!

Competitive Innovations LLC (CI) offers remote internship opportunities designed to give early career students hands-on experience with modern Microsoft technologies, cybersecurity, web development, and digital transformation. Our interns work alongside experienced teams on real projects that support public and private sector clients, gaining practical skills while contributing to meaningful, mission driven work.

Internship Eligibility and Requirements

Proof of residency in a U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)–designated Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) is required prior to starting and must be maintained throughout employment. (Visit HUBZone Map to determine whether you live in an SBA-designated HUBZone)
2nd or 3rd year college student majoring in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or other IT related field
Hours: 10 hours per week / 40 hours per month minimum
During this internship, students will have opportunities to build new technical skills and may pursue related professional certifications. CI will sponsor and maintain any Microsoft professional, or cloud certifications earned, through our participation in the Microsoft Partner Network program.
The terms of this internship with CI are outlined in the job description below and in our standard Employment and Confidentiality Agreement, which must be signed by both the student and the company as a condition of employment.

Job Summary

SmartCIte Project Intern

CI is seeking a student software engineering intern to support the development of SmartCIte, a platform that transforms crawled websites into fully populated CMS instances. In this role, the intern will work alongside experienced engineers to:

Implement scoped features and bug fixes across a TypeScript-based stack spanning backend services, frontend applications, CLI tooling, and CMS integrations
Contribute to core stages of the content pipeline, including HTML parsing, transformation, structured content generation, and downstream CMS modeling
Build and refine web pages, layouts, and reusable UI components in modern React- and Next.js-based frontends
Extend and maintain CMS schemas, content collections, field configurations, and database migrations
Develop and maintain automated test coverage for application logic, UI behavior, and end-to-end workflows
Run, troubleshoot, and support the local development environment and its dependent services

This is a learning-focused role. The ideal candidate is curious, persistent, and eager to read and learn from existing code and documentation.

Minimum Qualifications

Currently enrolled in a Computer Science or related degree program, with at least one year of completed coursework, including introductory programming and data structures
Working knowledge of at least one programming language and core programming concepts (functions, data structures, control flow, basic algorithmic thinking)
Familiarity with web fundamentals: HTML, and either JavaScript or another C-family language you can transfer from
Basic command-line comfort (navigating directories, running commands) and basic Git (clone, branch, commit, push)
Able to read existing code and documentation to understand a system before modifying it
Strong written communication and the reliability to follow through on committed tasks

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