Data Science Intern

About us

Built in Portland, our document management tool is used by county clerks, title companies and small law offices.

Overview

Remote ML internship focused on real company data, not Kaggle datasets. Most of the time goes into cleaning data and checking whether a model actually helps. Remote position. Most of the team is in Portland, but nobody is required to come in. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Responsibilities

• Pull data from BigQuery or PostgreSQL with SQL queries
• Track experiments in MLflow or Weights & Biases so results can be reproduced
• Fine-tune small transformer models with Hugging Face for classification tasks
• Train baseline models with scikit-learn and compare them against simple rules
• Evaluate models using precision, recall, AUC and other metrics that fit the problem
• Clean and prepare datasets in Python using pandas and NumPy
• Label and review samples of training data to check quality
• Package a trained model behind a simple FastAPI endpoint for testing

What we're looking for

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Available at least 30 hours a week, with some flexibility during exam weeks
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Familiar with Jupyter or Google Colab
• Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering
• Basic statistics: distributions, hypothesis testing, sampling
• A GitHub repo or Kaggle notebook showing at least one ML project end to end

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $45.00 - $46.00 per hour

Perks

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Flexible hours
• Paid company holidays
• Paid sick time
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Learning and development stipend

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at NBE Data.