Co-Op: Data Engineer
- USA
- Training
- Part-time
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to research and develop advanced data analytics, causal inference, and machine learning solutions to power the business and product innovations.
- Conduct in-depth research to address complex data-related challenges.
- Work on projects that have a real impact on our products, services, and business strategy.
- Design (and supervise) experiments and draw significant conclusions aimed at improving our understanding of the business.
- Collaborate companywide on product requirements to maximize customer satisfaction and to build prototypes and features for models while maintaining a clean codebase.
- Effectively communicate your analysis and findings through interactive visualizations, documents and presentations.
- Write detailed and precise documentation of your work.
- Knowledge and proficient in SQL, Python and R
- Proficiency in big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, or Airflow
- Knowledge of cloud-based data platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus
- Familiarity with algorithmic scalability, including numeric approximation and sketching
- Passion for applying scientific rigor to advance dynamic consumer products
- Experience in developing production solutions is a plus
- Strong statistics and mathematical skills
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving ability, and conceptual skills
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills, collaboration skills and is a team player
- Ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team
- Currently enrolled full-time and pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics or related field
- Relevant prior internship experience is a plus.
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