Career Opportunities
New and Recent College Graduates
Awards and Recognition
We're Proud to Be a 2025 Handshake Early Talent Award Winner!
For the fourth year in a row, APL has won an Early Talent Award from Handshake, an online recruiting platform for college students and recent alumni.
It’s a great feeling coming into work every day knowing that I’m doing something meaningful and that my career growth, interests, and goals are valued.
Launch Your Career
Discovery Program
APL’s variety of technical projects offer boundless opportunities to apply your skills to novel challenges. The Discovery Program helps recent grads in engineering and science from all degree levels navigate the vast career possibilities ahead.
The Discovery Program is the perfect way to launch your career. Our two-year rotational program offers a unique opportunity to experience APL’s wide array of technical challenges. Each Discovery Program experience is tailored to align your interests to projects in need of your skills and expertise. With each rotational assignment, you’ll broaden your knowledge, develop your skills, and discover the many ways you can influence the future.
The Discovery Program is open to all STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates with bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. We look for individuals with high academic achievements, strong technical experience, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment. To qualify, you must have a minimum 3.5 overall GPA and U.S. citizenship.
Apply to the Discovery Program!
Recruiting Events
Connect with us at an upcoming recruiting event to learn more about career opportunities at Johns Hopkins APL.
Join Our Talent Community!
Joining APL’s Talent Community is a great way to learn more about the Laboratory, our culture, and future opportunities.