KBR is a company that delivers science, technology, and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. They are seeking a Data Science Intern to learn and apply data science practices, work with interdisciplinary teams, and utilize machine learning techniques to analyze data.
Responsibilities
Learn and apply state-of-the-art data science practices as a member of an interdisciplinary team
Use data science and statistical techniques to identify data of interest, extract structured data from unstructured sources, and apply other data wrangling patterns to make our corpus of data more useful
Apply techniques from natural language processing (NLP) to understand textual data, including named entity recognition, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis
Use neural networks and other machine learning (ML) techniques to find patterns in data and to predict likely outcomes using a variety of input data types and sources
Qualification
Required
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the willingness to learn
Strong communication and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently and as part of a team
Proficient in one or more programming languages for data manipulation and analysis, such as Python, R, SQL, C, C#, C++, etc.
Proficient in MS Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Experience retrieving and analyzing datasets from databases and other systems
Experience with various data visualization tools such as Tableau, Qlik Analytics, MS Power BI, Plotly, or Matplotlib
Ability to obtain a DoD security clearance is required to be considered for this position
Preferred
Experience with 'big data' tools such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, or Palantir Foundry
Benefits
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world.
