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Position Description:
The Data Science intern will collaborate with their team and engage with stakeholders from various business functions to implement AI-driven solutions. As a Data Science intern, you will:
- Engage in a variety of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI (Gen-AI) projects from requirements to POC, prototype, and MVP development.
- Employ various algorithms and ML/DL techniques customized for particular business use cases.
- Collaborate with senior Data Scientists and ML Engineering along the key stages of the AI/ML lifecycle – data acquisition, feature engineering, model development and training, model evaluation and tuning, model deployment and monitoring.
- Document AI/ML model development processes and methodologies.
- Gain knowledge in the space and satellite industry while increasing exposure working with other business functions to ensure a full understanding of the company structure and strategy.
- Present AI/ML project findings and recommended course of action to leadership and key stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities:
The Data Science intern will have the opportunity to:
- Design, develop and deploy AI-powered solutions to optimize Intelsat's network, increase operational efficiencies, and improve end-user's quality of experience.
- Gain a better understanding on AI/ML solution implementation and model performance monitoring.
- Conduct research on AI trends, technologies, and techniques. Prototype 1 new technology.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI implementation and optimization.
- Learn from senior staff – business strategy, business processes, AI/ML approaches/techniques, explainable AI, data storytelling, influencing others.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent quantitative discipline with emphasis on AI/ML.
- Familiarity with supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning and related ML techniques (regression, classification, clustering) to support model solution development – prediction, optimization, recommendation. Basic knowledge of other AI sub-domains e.g., deep learning (ANN), NLP, Gen-AI / LLMs, a plus.
- Familiarity with ML frameworks and libraries (PyCaret, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow/Keras, NumPy, Pandas) and range of functions and algorithms they provide to train/test models.
- Experience in programming, analytical, and visualization tools to extract, transform, summarize, and visualize data that aligns with the objectives of an AI or data science project:
- Python (intermediate)
- SQL (intermediate)
- MS Excel (intermediate)
- Tableau, PowerBI (familiar)
- Jupyter or other Python-based data viz libraries (familiar)
- Experience utilizing relational databases and data lakes working with a variety of data structures, formats, and types. Use of cloud-based platforms i.e., AWS, Snowflake, Azure, GCP, a plus.
- Analytical thinking, collaborative mindset, strong communication, and time management skills
12 Week Schedule:
- Week 1-3: Business Foundation and Data Understanding
- On-boarding and training
- Data discovery, acquisition, exploratory data analysis (EDA)
- Data pre-processing, feature engineering
- Week 4-6: Model Design and Development
- Research algorithms and ML techniques that match use case
- Implement baseline models
- Train models, fine-tune hyperparameters
- Evaluate model performance; conduct cross-validation
- Week 7-10: Advanced Modeling and Analysis
- Analyze feature importance and iterate feature selection
- Refine models, consider alternatives, compare vs. baseline
- Optimize model performance
- Create documentation (architecture, features, performance)
- Week 10-12: Deployment, Monitoring, and Reporting
- Collaborate with ML Engineering / CloudOps on deployment environment
- Deploy model into production, monitor performance
- Finalize comprehensive report of the project
- Present findings to stakeholders
Minimum Requirements:
- Eligible candidates must be one of the following:
- Part-time or full-time students who have completed 24+ credit hours (rising sophomores/juniors/seniors) and are enrolled in an undergraduate program at an accredited college or university; Part-time or full-time students enrolled in a graduate program at an accredited college or university.
- May 2025 graduate
- Ability to exercise sound judgment, professionalism, and maturity in the workplace
- Effective communicator in both written and spoken English
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Proficiency in use of MSOffice Suite
- 3.0 GPA or above preferred
Summer Intern Program Description:
- Paid; 12 weeks starting on Monday, May 26, 2025, through August 15, 2025
- Schedule - 40 hours/week, Monday- Friday, 9 – 5 or regular core hours
- Hybrid environment (minimum 3 days in Chicago location)
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