Available Projects

The proposal period for 2024 internships is now open and new project ideas will keep being posted here! Once you are ready to submit your proposal, please apply via our career website. The deadline for applications is March 22, 2024, 23:59 hrs. ET.


Browse the list below. One you have selected a project, we recommend that you contact the mentor to discuss your ideas.

Full details of how the application process works are available in this blog or in this recording. Also, see our Proposal Guidelines and an example to help you prepare your proposal submission.

If you are new to HPCC Systems, find out more about here and view our tips on how to prepare for your project and internship.

The projects listed here are available as student work experience opportunities with HPCC Systems as part of our summer intern program. Submissions are welcome from high school through to PhD. Find out about our Class of 2023 and their projects.

Contact our intern program mailbox with your questions about the program.


  1. Adding dataset support to the HPCC Systems Wasm plugin
  2. Create a new HPCC command line tool - current submissions under review*
  3. Develop an Automated ECL Watch Test Suite - current submissions under review*
  4. Extending the wasm wit interface for HPCC Systems
  5. Interfacing a Vector Database with ECL - current submissions under review*
  6. Interfacing your own suggested external datastore with ECL - current submissions under review*
  7. Integration of HPCC Systems Terraform CI with Github Actions - current submissions under review*
  8. Investigate Third Party Environments Working with HPCC Systems
  9. Migrate and improve regression testing in GitHub Actions - current submissions under review*
  10. Refactoring and releasing PyHPCC **New project**

  11. Test suite for the HPCC Systems Parquet plugin
  12. Update and improve the generation of package files for HPCC Systems build

* Final decisions to be communicated by April 15, 2024 at the latest.

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