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Data Science - Forward Deployed Engineer: PhD Internship Opportunities

United States, Washington, RedmondInternship2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10

Core

Prepare and assess data, develop and optimize machine learning models, design controlled experiments, and partner with engineering to operationalize models into production systems.

Role type

PhD intern data science engineer (forward deployed)

Builds

production ML models and AI systems

Domain

data science and machine learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, data structures, optimization techniques, SQL, Python, R, Java, Scala, C#

Preferred skills

data pipelines, large-scale data processing frameworks, model evaluation, telemetry systems, visualization tools, cloud-based ML platforms

Responsibilities

query and visualize data to identify key attributes and quality considerations, develop and evaluate models to address business objectives, design and analyze controlled experiments, communicate findings to stakeholders, partner with engineering teams to operationalize models, collaborate on defining evaluation metrics to improve AI system performance