2025 Data Science Internship, AI/ML
Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive and diverse company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2023 revenue of approximately $9.2 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit www.eastman.com.
Data Scientists at Eastman work to provide actionable insights using advanced analytics to help the company make better and faster decisions. Data Scientists work in a centralized department organized into four groups: Applied Statistics, AI/Machine Learning, Operations Research, and Generative AI. As an intern in AI/ML at Eastman, you will provide actionable insights using advanced analytics to help the company make better and faster decisions. Join our AI/ML internship program and unleash your skills to develop cutting-edge solutions that provide valuable insights to our business and corporate partners.
Responsibilities
- Apply real-time descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive modeling to enable business decisions and deliver valuable insights using statistical and machine learning methods.
- Critically evaluate customer requirements, explore and understand data, and create and deploy solutions to meet those requirements.
- Utilize programming skills and version control to develop scalable solutions, database languages and transformation libraries to extract and transform data, and tools to deploy solutions.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with clients and other employees in a diverse set of roles from individual contributors to senior management.
Qualifications
- Strong foundation in one or more areas of data science modeling: classification, regression, time series analysis, clustering, and natural language processing.
- Proficient in a modern programming language, preferably Python or R.
- Experience in data cleaning and transformation. Experience interfacing with relational databases, NoSQL, or graph databases is a plus.
- Experience creating user interfaces is a plus, specifically with R Shiny, Python Streamlit or Python Dash, and Power BI.
- Ability to manage complex projects and methodically work towards rigorous solutions.
- Critically evaluate customer requirements and deploy solutions to meet specific needs.
Required Education: Pursuing or enrolled in an M.S. or Ph.D. in the United States in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, or any other relevant field including engineering.
Location: Kingsport, TN (in-person/hybrid)
Eastman Chemical Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected classes as designated by law.
Eastman is committed to creating a powerfully diverse workforce and a broadly inclusive workplace, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.