Data Science Intern

Who we are:

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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. This role is fully remote within the US. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Responsibilities:

• Train baseline models with scikit-learn and compare them against simple rules
• Fine-tune small transformer models with Hugging Face for classification tasks
• Pull data from BigQuery or PostgreSQL with SQL queries
• Present findings to the team in a short slide deck every few weeks
• Engineer features from transaction, text or event data
• Document assumptions, data sources and results in Confluence or Notion
• Write prompts and evaluation sets for LLM features, and score the outputs
• Package a trained model behind a simple FastAPI endpoint for testing

Who can apply:

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Basic statistics: distributions, hypothesis testing, sampling
• A GitHub repo or Kaggle notebook showing at least one ML project end to end
• Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering
• Strong Python, including pandas, NumPy and Matplotlib

Preferred:

• Knowledge of NLP or computer vision basics

What you get out of it:

• Weekly mentorship from a senior data scientist
• You will take one model from raw data to an evaluated prototype

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $39.50-$53.50/hr

Perks:

• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Paid company holidays
• Flexible hours
• Company laptop

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Tamarackridge Interactive, LLC.