2026 Data Science Internship - United States, Phd or Masters Student

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Data Science

This internship focuses on data science, machine learning, and data mining, with an emphasis on developing, automating, and running analytical models. The intern will build tools for data analysis, error resolution, and present findings to business partners. Experience with large datasets and statistical grounding is expected.

What you'd actually do

  1. develop, automate, and run analytical models for our systems
  2. build tools and support structures needed to analyze and dive deep into data to resolve systems errors and changes
  3. present your findings to our business partners and help drive improvements

Skills

Required

  • Experience with data scripting languages (e.g. SQL, Python, R etc.) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, or Matlab)
  • Experience in data science, machine learning or data mining
  • Experience with big data: processing, filtering, and presenting large quantities (100K to Millions of rows) of data
  • Must be eligible for and available for full-time (40 hours per week) internship for the whole duration of the internship

Nice to have

  • Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map-reduce, and Hive)

What the JD emphasized

  • strong modeling skills
  • owning and executing data
  • develop, automate, and run analytical models
  • build tools and support structures needed to analyze and dive deep into data
  • manage medium-scale modeling projects
  • built methodology/tools that were statistically grounded

Other signals

  • develop, automate, and run analytical models
  • build tools and support structures needed to analyze and dive deep into data
  • manage medium-scale modeling projects
  • identified requirements
  • built methodology/tools that were statistically grounded