Year-round Data Science Internship
Data Scientist Internship
(Year-round, Remote)
www.premier-strategy.com
Company Description:
Premier Strategy Consulting, LLC is a fast growing startup company that focuses on delivering value-added and scalable AI solutions to a variety of businesses. Our goal is to prosper our clients with exceptional products and services in the following ways:
- Lead with values: We focus on bringing direct value to our clients and clearly communicate the value throughout the engagement. We help you identify the highest leverage area to invest your resources by defining the value proposition, sizing the opportunity and aligning on the game plan.
- Design to scale: Each strategy/model is designed to scale with no or very few manual touches. As your business grows, you can continue to leverage on our solution in a cost effective way.
- Deploy to partner: AI modeling support is available to provide long-term deployed models. We can continue to partner with your business to optimize the models and to produce incremental results.
In this role, you will:
- Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists and project managers to deliver a solution customers love
- Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, R, GCP, AWS, Spark, DOMO and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data
- Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
- Help build end-to-end data pipelines to deploy advanced models and gain exposure to senior leadership by communicating results and providing scientific guidance to the business.
- Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals and see the direct impact of your work
The Ideal Candidate is:
- Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.
- Technical. You’re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
- Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and back tested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or an ROC curve. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning.
- A data guru. “Big data” doesn’t faze you. You have the skills to retrieve, combine, and analyze data from a variety of sources and structures. You know understanding the data is often the key to great data science.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 2 years of experience in data analytics, or candidates of Master’s Degree, or PhD candidates
- At least 1 year of experience in open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
- At least 1 year of experience with machine learning
- At least 1 year of experience with relational databases
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
- Experience working with AWS or GCP
- At least 2 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R
- At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning
- At least 2 years’ experience with SQL
Premier Strategy Consulting will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position. Students on CPT and OPT are also eligible.
What does the hiring process look like:
- Apply: complete your online application and assessment
- Screen and schedule: if your application is a good match, you will hear from one of our team members to set up a screening interview
- Interview(s): now is your chance to learn about the job, show us who you are, share why you would be a great addition to the team and determine if Premier Strategy Consulting is the right fit for you.
- Decision: the team will discuss if it’s a good fit for us and you. We will make it official.
Disclaimers
No agencies please. Premier Strategy Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Premier Strategy Consulting promotes a drug-free workplace. Premier Strategy Consulting will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.