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Amazon Data Science Internship - United States PhD Masters Student 
United States, Washington, Seattle 
684748058

Yesterday
DESCRIPTION

Do you have a passion for data? Are you matriculating in a Master’s or PhD program? Amazon is looking for driven data science students with strong modeling skills who are comfortable owning and executing data. To be successful in this internship, you will need the ability to develop, automate, and run analytical models for our systems. During this internship, you will build tools and support structures needed to analyze and dive deep into data to resolve systems errors and changes. You will have the ability to present your findings to our business partners and help drive improvements.Previous applicants demonstrated the aptitude to manage medium-scale modeling projects, identified requirements, and built methodology/tools that were statistically grounded.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Are 18 years of age or older
- Work 40 hours/week minimum and commit to 12 week internship maximum
- Can relocate to where the internship is based
- 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 actively enrolled in a Master's or PhD program


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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