Opportunities

Updated 20th October 2020

From Our Sponsors

Teach First – STEM Online Experience

A lot can happen for your career prospects in a week. On our STEM Online Experience, you’ll develop skills in teaching, leadership, teamwork, decision-making and public speaking. Along the way, you may discover a lifelong passion for helping children fulfil their potential, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Not bad for a week’s work!

This is a unique opportunity to go deeper into the subject you love, share your enthusiasm with others, and get an insight into a career that changes many lives, starting with your own.

Teach First – Training Programme (2-year graduate scheme)

In partnership with Amazon Future Engineer, we’re offering you the opportunity to earn a salary while you train to be a computing teacher on our Training Programme, voted eighth in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers. You’ll also gain valuable experience that will serve you well in the tech and education sectors.

Most importantly, you’ll help ensure that children who face the biggest life challenges can learn crucial computer science skills. Our country needs teachers now more than ever and by joining our Training Programme you can become part of our most important cohort of teachers and leaders yet.

Competitions

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Win a trip to San Francisco!

Join 79 other universities and thousands of students in our online coding league by completing bi-weekly challenges, sponsored by some of the UK’s top tech employers

Various prizes will be up for grabs throughout the competition, with the team top of the table at the end winning a trip to San Francisco

Insight and Training Days

Teach First – STEM Online Experience

A lot can happen for your career prospects in a week. On our STEM Online Experience, you’ll develop skills in teaching, leadership, teamwork, decision-making and public speaking. Along the way, you may discover a lifelong passion for helping children fulfil their potential, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Not bad for a week’s work!

This is a unique opportunity to go deeper into the subject you love, share your enthusiasm with others, and get an insight into a career that changes many lives, starting with your own.

You @ J. P. Morgan

October 20th 2020

A unique virtual event and resource platform that’s focused around you and your future success, no matter the career. Hear first from one of our guest speakers on their stories centered around growth and development, both personally and professionally, all in real time. Following the live keynote session, expect to learn more from our employees on their insights and experiences working at J.P. Morgan, all through a series of live panel discussions. From our work culture, recruitment process and program opportunities, we hope to inspire and set you up for success so that you can take charge of your career, whatever the direction.

Internships

Software Engineering Summer Internship – Leeds

Join the software engineering team at the forefront of developing great quality software. Learn agile techniques. Produce clean, testable and documented code. Take a proactive role in helping the team choose the best solutions and technologies for the task at hand. Make an impact by producing test coverage and ensuring software is delivered to the highest standard. Find out how we provide the environments our developers use to create our software products.

Nothing happens on-screen without the talented people behind the scenes, working their magic every day at Sky. Join us for an internship in our software engineering team and you’ll be working in a fun, fast-moving environment. Impress us, and we may well offer you a full-time position once you graduate – starting summer 2022.

Data Science Intern – Echobox

You will work closely with our Data Scientists and gain valuable AI/ML skills while being in charge of your own cutting edge NLP project. At the end of your internship you will present in front of the Echobox tech team.

  • Lead the entire life-cycle of a cutting edge AI/ML project.
  • Create and execute a presentation for your project, to be delivered in front of the tech team.
  • Assist your team in day-to-day jobs and projects.

Year in Industry

Test Engineer Intern – Intel

In this position, you will be part of a global team in Sales & Marketing – Intel Demo Depot, Engineering Services. Primary focus will be on providing engineering support for testing of customer systems across all Engineering Services capabilities. These include primarily EMC, Thermal, Acoustic & ERP/Lot3 (Energy Related Products), plus also a number of Intel technology validation tests.
You will be exposed to broad system areas, including HW, OS, networking. Software skills including SW development would be an advantage.

Software Engineering Internship – Medical Technology

Cambridge Consultants is looking for an engineering student who would like to spend a year working in the Medical Technology Software Group. It’s a valuable opportunity to gain practical experience and learn new skills in software engineering and software development, particularly for embedded systems. We work on a variety of exciting client projects, and you will get to see how ideas go from the whiteboard to production.

This is a 12 month internship intended for students taking an industrial placement as part of their degree. Deadline for applications is: 4th January 2021

Grad Schemes

Teach First – Training Programme (2-year graduate scheme)

In partnership with Amazon Future Engineer, we’re offering you the opportunity to earn a salary while you train to be a computing teacher on our Training Programme, voted eighth in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers. You’ll also gain valuable experience that will serve you well in the tech and education sectors.

Most importantly, you’ll help ensure that children who face the biggest life challenges can learn crucial computer science skills. Our country needs teachers now more than ever and by joining our Training Programme you can become part of our most important cohort of teachers and leaders yet.