Data Scientist Intern

Headquartered in Kansas City since 2002, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

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 within the US. The team meets in Kansas City once a quarter, travel covered. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Day to day

• Train baseline models with scikit-learn and compare them against simple rules
• Track experiments in MLflow or Weights & Biases so results can be reproduced
• Present findings to the team in a short slide deck every few weeks
• Label and review samples of training data to check quality
• Pull data from BigQuery or PostgreSQL with SQL queries
• Write prompts and evaluation sets for LLM features, and score the outputs
• Fine-tune small transformer models with Hugging Face for classification tasks

What we're looking for

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science or a related field, graduating in 2027
• Familiar with Jupyter or Google Colab
• Strong Python, including pandas, NumPy and Matplotlib
• Available at least 30 hours a week, with some flexibility during exam weeks

What you'll learn

• Certificate and a recommendation letter, plus a pre-placement interview for strong interns
• You will take one model from raw data to an evaluated prototype
• How to judge whether a model is worth deploying, not just whether its accuracy is high

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $39.00 - $46.00 an hour

Perks

• Home office setup stipend
• Paid company holidays
• Paid sick time
• Learning and development stipend

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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