Data Scientist Intern, Summer 2027

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Internship overview:

Houston Online is hiring a Data Scientist Intern for Summer 2027. Houston Online is looking for a data science intern to help build and test prediction models for our Risk Modelling team. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Your projects:

• Engineer features from transaction, text or event data
• Fine-tune small transformer models with Hugging Face for classification tasks
• Pull data from BigQuery or PostgreSQL with SQL queries
• Clean and prepare datasets in Python using pandas and NumPy
• Run exploratory analysis and write up what you find in a Jupyter notebook
• Label and review samples of training data to check quality
• Track experiments in MLflow or Weights & Biases so results can be reproduced

Basic qualifications:

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Laptop with 8 GB RAM or more and a stable internet connection (no GPU needed, we provide cloud compute)
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science or a related field, graduating in 2027 or 2028
• Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of NLP or computer vision basics
• Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Some work with LLM APIs, embeddings or retrieval

What you'll learn:

• You will take one model from raw data to an evaluated prototype
• Working with messy production data and real business constraints
• Experiment tracking and reproducible notebooks, the way the team actually does it
• Certificate and a recommendation letter, plus a pre-placement interview for strong interns

Program dates: Summer 2027, 12 weeks.

Intern pay: $44.50 - $48.00 per hour

Benefits for interns:

• Learning and development stipend
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Home office setup stipend
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Final presentation to leadership

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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