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Admissions Operations Technical Intern

Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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Position Title: Admissions Operations Technical Student Intern

Academic year: 2026–2027

Positions available: 1

Supervisor: Peace Kiponda

Pay rate: $16 per hour

Hours per week: 6–10

Start date: October 15, 2026

End date: April 15, 2027

 

Position Description

The Admissions Operations Technical Intern will support the development, testing, and maintenance of web applications that improve admissions workflows and services. Working with admissions staff and technical team members, the intern will turn user needs into focused web application improvements, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and contribute to frontend features, testing, documentation, and basic technical support.

This is a learning opportunity for a student with foundational software-development, AI, and data science skills. The intern will work on web application changes, institutional data, and platform administration with appropriate guidance and review.

Essential Responsibilities

Application Development and User Experience

  • Assist with the development and maintenance of a web application.
  • Build and refine user-interface components using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and related technologies.
  • Translate user needs and feature requests into clear, practical software improvements.
  • Participate in user interviews, demonstrations, and feedback sessions to understand workflows and usability needs.
  • Incorporate approved user feedback into upcoming web application releases.
  • Improve the usability, responsiveness, consistency, and accessibility of the web application.
  • Assist with API integrations and basic back-end development as needed.

AI-Assisted Development and Code Quality

  • Use agentic development tools to help plan, implement, test, debug, and document software changes.
  • Write clear software-development prompts for programming, code generation, debugging, testing, and code review.
  • Review AI-generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and alignment with project standards.
  • Read the existing codebase, follow established conventions, and make focused changes without disrupting unrelated functionality.
  • Investigate bugs, reproduce reported issues, interpret error messages and application logs, and help implement and validate fixes.

Testing and Release Support

  • Test new and existing functionality through manual checks and automated test suites.
  • Help create and maintain end-to-end tests for important user workflows.
  • Apply software testing concepts, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
  • Participate in GitHub-based workflows, including issue tracking, branching, commits, pull requests, code reviews, merge-conflict resolution, and release preparation.

Documentation and Technical Support

  • Help maintain technical documentation, development instructions, test plans, and release notes.
  • Support minor technical administration, application configuration, deployment monitoring, and development-environment maintenance.
  • Assist with supervised data-platform tasks, such as checking data availability, validating application data, reviewing pipeline status, and supporting database or platform administration.
  • Help monitor application health and report unexpected errors, failed automations, or data-quality concerns.

Collaboration, Privacy, and Professional Practice

  • Collaborate with staff and other student interns, communicate progress, and promptly raise blockers.
  • Protect confidential institutional and student information by following applicable privacy and security practices.
  • Perform other related software-development, testing, documentation, and technical-support duties as assigned.

 

Qualifications

Required

  • Basic experience with at least one agentic software-development environment, such as Devin, Claude Code, Google Antigravity, or a comparable AI-assisted coding tool.
  • Ability to write effective prompts for programming, code generation, debugging, testing, and code review.
  • Basic familiarity with Git, GitHub, and version-control workflows, including branches, commits, pull requests, merge conflicts, and code reviews.
  • Foundational web-development skills using technologies such as JavaScript or TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.
  • Basic understanding of APIs and how frontend applications communicate with backend services.
  • Familiarity with software testing concepts, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
  • Basic debugging and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret error messages, application logs, and failed tests.
  • Ability to document work clearly and collaborate effectively.
  • Attention to usability, accessibility, data privacy, security, and responsible handling of institutional information.
  • Dependability, curiosity, and the ability to work independently while seeking guidance when requirements or technical decisions are unclear.

Preferred

  • Willingness to learn unfamiliar tools and technologies, including Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Supabase, and Playwright.
  • Previous coursework, personal projects, internships, or campus work involving software development.

Application Instructions

Provide your application, including details from relevant personal or class projects, links to a digital portfolio if available and at least one reference. Review of applications will begin immediately. You may be contacted by the hiring supervisor for additional information.

 

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