Data Scientist Intern

About us

Southside Cloud builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors.

The internship

Our data team is small, three data scientists and one data engineer. The intern will work on one main project with a clear goal and a mentor. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in.

What you'll do

• Clean and prepare datasets in Python using pandas and NumPy
• Package a trained model behind a simple FastAPI endpoint for testing
• Pull data from BigQuery or PostgreSQL with SQL queries
• Evaluate models using precision, recall, AUC and other metrics that fit the problem
• Document assumptions, data sources and results in Confluence or Notion
• Write prompts and evaluation sets for LLM features, and score the outputs

What we're looking for

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026 or 2027
• Laptop with 8 GB RAM or more and a stable internet connection (no GPU needed, we provide cloud compute)
• Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering
• Working knowledge of SQL

Preferred

• Kaggle competitions or a published student research paper

What you'll learn

• You will take one model from raw data to an evaluated prototype
• Experiment tracking and reproducible notebooks, the way the team actually does it
• How to judge whether a model is worth deploying, not just whether its accuracy is high

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $39.00 - $50.00 per hour

What we offer

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

Duration: 5 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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