Who are we:

We are one of the largest U.S. railroads transporting the nations freight across 28 western states and 3 Canadian provinces. As a member of our team, you will play a role in supporting the movement of essential products and materials that help feed, clothe, supply, and power communities throughout America and the world. Come make a difference with us!

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Intern Program:

The paid Summer Internship Program is an opportunity to experience what it’s like to be a full-time BNSF employee. As an intern at BNSF, you’ll be given real-life, impactful assignments that will put your skills and education into practice. Your summer project will combine classroom experience and real-life business situations to provide value-added work to BNSF. The program is designed to identify students who will be hired by BNSF as full-time Management Trainees after they graduate. During your summer internship, you will get the chance to network with peers, our Business Resource Groups, and Senior Leaders throughout the BNSF network.

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Work Location: Fort Worth, TX

Anticipated Start Date: 05/29/2024

Number of Positions: 20
Salary: $4,781 per month

Applicants will be notified via e-mail regarding potential interviews, testing, and hiring events for this position. Please check your e-mail daily.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Opportunities exist to gain exposure in the following areas:

• Software Development and Engineering

• Enterprise Intelligence/Analytics and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

• Infrastructure

• Cyber Security

• Telecommunications (Telecom)

• Data Center and Network Management

• SAP Development

• Internet of Things (IoT)

• System Architecture

• Mobile & Web Development

• Project Management

• Database Management

• Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence Model Training and Development

• Organizational Change Management

• Machine Vision and Image Analytics

• Cloud Engineering and Administration

• Automation and Robotics, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

• User Experience Design (UX)

This is not a rotational position, Interns will be placed in one of the following work groups:

Software Development and Engineering:

• Software Development is an exciting area of Technology Services. Diverse skillsets, technologies and programming languages converge to provide solutions to support our dynamic railroad.

• With over 400 applications within the BNSF portfolio, employees can increase their business knowledge, technical skills, and contribute to one of the cornerstones of our economy. We seek talent for a variety of different programming languages and tools.

Some programming languages and tools we use:

• Programming

• Java, JavaScript, Spring MVC, C/C++, .Net(C#), GitHub

• Python, Perl, Ruby

• HTML5, Swift, Flash, Mobility

• Data Platforms/Tools

• SAP (ABAP, Business Objects, HANA)

• Db2 z/OS & LUW, MSSQL Server, Oracle

• MarkLogic, Cassandra, Teradata

• ArcGIS & ESRI

• Azure Data Factory, Tableau, PowerBI, SAS

• Informatica, Kafka

Telecommunications (Telecom):

• Telecom designs, builds, and maintains BNSF’s network across the deserts, plains, and mountains in all weather conditions to ensure BNSF’s customers and employees experience flawless performance of the voice, video, data, and drone infrastructure network.

• The team supports over 60,000 network devices deployed in 2700 locations across the BNSF service area. They also support over 120 dispatchers and two-way radio service on over 32,500 route miles connecting locomotives, high rail vehicles, on track work equipment, and handheld portable radios.

• Summer interns have an opportunity to proactively contribute to helping ensure high network availability and on-time train performance by learning areas of support, planning, engineering, and implementation across our digital network.

Some concepts and tools we use:

• Basic data, voice, transport network design principles and technologies, TCP/IP and associated network architecture, IP (Internet Protocol) routing & switching, Software Defined LAN and WAN UHF/VHF radio operation and maintenance, microwave transmission systems, Unified communications design, and implementation.

Infrastructure:

• The BNSF Infrastructure team is challenged every day with keeping our extensive IT (Information Technology) infrastructure available. We create, maintain, and enhance architecture, security, tools, information, data centers, and so much more.

• Infrastructure works closely with the BNSF application development teams to stand up platforms including IP range, firewalls, physical servers, data centers, cloud, etc.

• Interns will broaden their knowledge of modeling data, designing, and supporting our mid-tier and cloud platforms. While ensuring the security, integrity, and availability of information, maintains an environment conducive to sharing information for business purposes.

• Currently supporting Open Shift, Windows 2016 and 2019, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Microsoft Azure, & request management automation (ServiceNow, UIPath).

• Currently, BNSF is exploring multiple vendors for Cloud platforms (admin or architect), infrastructure as code, & next gen data centers.

• Using Deep Learning and machine vision models to process large unstructured data (images) on Cloud, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) clusters and IoT (Internet of Things) platforms for image recognition

Enterprise Analytics and Geographical Information Systems (GIS):

• BNSF’s Enterprise Analytics team manages several initiatives for visualizing, reporting, and developing actionable insights from the company’s data and information platforms.

• Specific initiatives include:

• Analytics Strike Team - evaluates and delivers rapid prototyping for advanced analytics dashboards, artificial intelligence, and predictive tools to improve train operations with real time data.

• GIS team - responsible for corporate-wide GIS strategy and execution. GIS is a core, foundational element for many of our modernization efforts including systems that are driving train operations and management. GIS is also being leveraged across BNSF as an analytical platform to further drive spatial and advanced analytics solutions to improve safety, efficiency, and growth.

Cyber Security:

• Assist in improving application security including code review, Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and defining secure application development guidelines. Discovery and remediation of Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 vulnerabilities.

• Assist in the development and maintenance of security operations services, including vulnerability scanning, configuration assessments, and anomaly detection. Identify cyber threats, determine root cause, scope, and severity of each, and compile/report the findings. Work with Penetration Testers and Cybersecurity Assessors to develop new tactics and techniques for identifying suspicious activities.

• Assist in configuring and maintaining user access to network resources and data based on corporate policies, procedures, and standards. Providing end users with the least privileged access required for the assigned job.

• Assist in engineering and maintaining secure network infrastructure, including firewalls, routers, proxy servers, DNS (Domain Name System) infrastructure, RADIUS infrastructure, and wireless networks. Performing network infrastructure security assessments, identify & execute network segmentation opportunities, and automate network security service requests.

Marketing, Intermodal, Machine Vision, UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and Enterprise Services:

• This team supports a wide variety of functions across the enterprise. The Marketing Systems team support all External facing web tools that are used by BNSF’s end customers and the Customer Relationship Management platform, which is SalesForce. This team also supports the Vendavo platform for managing, maintaining, and publishing pricing information for BNSF’s transportation services.

• Intermodal business is the growth engine for BNSF and the Intermodal Systems team supports BNSF’s Intermodal Customers and Operations. A big part of this growth is dependent on developing cutting edge, innovative, technology solutions for our Intermodal Hubs to handle the future growth along with solutions driving deeper system integration with our end customers for better planning and operations. We are using, evaluating and piloting technologies like UAVs (Drones) and Robots to automate yard operations.

• The machine vision and UAV team is a unique team driving innovation for BNSF. BNSF has a mature Machine Vision program supporting the automated inspection programs for BNSF’s track, locomotives and railcars. High-definition cameras, fixed and moving (up to 70 mph), are used to capture high-definition pictures, which are then analyzed in real time using advanced Artificial Intelligence models to find defects and inspect track and equipment. BNSF also has one of the largest UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or drones) programs in the industry, with over 300 UAVs and over 200 pilots across the system. This team leverages UAVs for a variety of functions, including aerial surveillance of yards and trains, inspections, and emergency response.

• Enterprise Services is responsible for managing a $150M annual portfolio of technology projects and programs, aimed at driving innovation and growth across BNSF. This team provides end to end delivery support on initiatives, from idea inception to successful deployment of technologies, through critical functions such as project/program management and organizational change enablement.

We use the following major skills, tools, methodologies, and technologies:

• Machine Vision Modelling, Azure, Google, Auto ML (Machine Learning), Teradata, RedHat, SalesForce, Vendavo, Robotics

• Project Management: Waterfall, Agile Scrum, SAFe and Kanban

• Organizational Change Enablement: Prosci ADKAR, Lean Change, Kotter’s Change Model

• Training Development and Delivery

• Facilitation, Communication, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Additionally, qualified candidates must be able to:

• Demonstrate leadership skills.

• Work effectively in a team environment.

• Express ideas and information in a clear and concise manner.

• Recognize and respond effectively to unexpected situations and tight deadlines.

• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to changing task priorities and work situations.

• Demonstrate ability to complete tasks regardless of obstacles.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Primarily an office environment, occasional travel required.
• Normal office hours, Monday through Friday, with weekend or evening work as required.

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENT:

• Must have reliable transportation to and from work.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Authorization to work in the US without Company sponsorship now AND in the future.
• Able and willing to relocate to Fort Worth, Texas for the summer.
• Pursuing a Bachelors or Graduate degree from an accredited university, and will complete degree no earlier than Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026, or Fall 2026.
• Have or anticipate to have at least a 2.50 cumulative GPA with a degree in Engineering OR a 2.75 or higher cumulative GPA with a non-Engineering degree.
• Have four (4) years or less of professional work experience, EXCLUDING internships, part-time jobs, or positions held pursuing a degree in high school and/or college.
• Able to work out of the Fort Worth office (with potential of being 50% hybrid).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Decision Science, Business, Technical OR a similar degree program.

BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION ELEMENTS:

• Criminal history
• Last 7 years of driving history
• Last 5 years of employment history to include military service
• Social Security number
• Education

• Medical evaluation
• Drug Screen
• Other elements as needed

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