# PhD Data Science Internship 2027 (USA)

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $12,100 monthly
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for Data Science interns to help evolve and shape the future of our product. You'll apply quantitative analysis, statistical techniques, modeling, and data mining while working cross-functionally with engineering and product partners.

Responsibilities:

- Influence and evolve our product roadmap using data and exploratory analysis to understand user behavior and trends

- Design and implement core metrics that serve as the north stars for team efforts

- Explore alternative experimentation techniques to help internal teams evaluate their ideas faster

- Help gather explicit signals about Pinner, Merchant, Creator, or Advertiser preferences and tastes using survey methodologies and statistical/modeling based approaches

- Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights

Requirements:

- Currently pursuing a PhD degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, computer science, or related field

- Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity

- Fluency in SQL and a scripting language (Python or R)

- Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners

Internship details:

- 12 weeks paid

- Fixed start dates in May or June

- Locations: San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, or Seattle offices

- Remote or hybrid work arrangements available

Salary: $12,100 monthly

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- R
- quantitative analysis
- statistical techniques
- modeling
- data mining

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