Powering your career in data science with industry-ready internships

The field of data science has undoubtedly become a sought-after career option today. Companies are increasingly leveraging digital technology and generating a mammoth amount of data every day. To process such an amount of data, they are seeking talent with data skills that can help derive actionable insight from the data for business growth. This growing demand for data professionals gives rise to data science, making it a must-have skill in today's data-driven world. Becoming a data scientist requires relevant skills and qualifications.

Many organizations offer internship programs for a particular time period to students pursuing data science to hone their knowledge in this field. Some also provide full-time jobs after the completion of internships.

Here's a look at the top data science internships to apply for now.

Digivaxc

Location: Bengaluru

Job Role: Data Engineering Intern

Duration: 3 Months

Digivaxc is a U.S.-based startup venture and deals with the intersection of healthcare, technology, and consumer. Selected interns will be responsible for scoping out new data sources to complement existing ones; creating and maintaining distributed web scrapers using Python, RabbitMQ, and other technologies. They also require to assist the architect and manage data pipelines where data flows into multiple end-points including Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB and more.

Requirements

• Should be proficient in Python or any other object-oriented language.

• Should have worked with large interdisciplinary datasets.

• Should have scraped difficult websites and have some experience working with various data APIs.

• Should be patient and methodical with unstructured and messy data.

• Should have some experience working with social network analysis and more.

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Acrobyte Technologies

Location: Remote

Job Role: Data Science Intern

Duration: 6 Months

Selected candidates will require analyzing raw data: assessing quality, cleansing, structuring for downstream processing. They will design accurate and scalable prediction algorithms and collaborate with the engineering team to bring analytical prototypes to production. Candidates also will generate actionable insights for business improvements.

Requirements

• M Tech / MS in Data Science related course.

• Deep understanding of predictive modeling, machine-learning, clustering and classification techniques, and algorithms.

• Have expertise in ML and Python

• Fluency in technologies like Python, Machine Learning algorithms, NLP, or Computer Vision.

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Trilyo

Location: Bengaluru

Job Role: Business Analytics

Duration: 3 Months

Trilyo creates conversational AI-based solutions for businesses to automate sales and marketing processes. Candidates for this 3-month internship will be responsible for working closely with the development team to ensure the delivery of quality software. They will need to perform user acceptance testing and work on tracking daily project tasks, submitting status reports, and summarizing completed milestones and tasks.

Requirements

• Must have excellent written & verbal communication skills.

• Must have a strong knowledge of UML diagrams like use case and process flows.

• Must have a good understanding of business requirements, designing & preparing functional specifications & BRD.

• Must have a basic knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

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Verzeo

Location: Bengaluru

Job Role: Software Testing

Duration: 6 Months

Verzeo is an AI-based EdTech startup. Selected interns will require creating tests to identify software problems, analyze bugs and errors found during tests, document results of tests for the software development team and recommend improvements in software to enhance the user experience. They will also be responsible for motivating the development process for efficiency and performance and working together with the software developer to enhance and improve programs and more.

Requirements

• Must have a thorough understanding of using Selenium Webdriver on JavaScript applications.

• Must have experience as a software tester or in a similar role.

• Must have experience in data analysis.

• Must be a critical thinker and should have problem-solving skills.

• Should be a team player with good time-management skills.

• Should have great interpersonal and communication skills.

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Wobot Intelligence

Location: Delhi

Job Role: Deep Learning Intern

Duration: 6 Months

Selected candidates will be responsible for reading research papers and implement the same in PyTorch or Tensorflow. They will need to understand the dynamics of a problem statement and come up with meaningful solutions for the same. They will research and implement novel techniques for computer vision, and write code for developing libraries for use by internal teams.

Requirements

• Have skills and knowledge of OpenCV, Linux, ML, computer vision and deep learning.

• Available for the work from home job/internship

• Can start the work from home job/internship between 17th Dec'20 and 21st Jan'21

• Available for 6 months.

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Internshala

Location: Gurgaon

Job Role: Data Science

Duration: 6 Months

Internshala is a technology company on a mission to equip students with relevant skills & practical exposure through internships and online training. Aspirants will be responsible for working on ML problems, including NLP, recommendation engines and prediction models, to improve UX and business metrics. They will require monitoring the overall health of the company's product and business. They will track important business & product metrics, identify broad improvement opportunities, and design and implement A/B experiments to track the impact of individual changes in our product and more.

Requirements

• Have skills in MySQL, Python and MS-Excel.

• Available for full time (in-office) internship

• Can start the internship between 17th December 2020 and 21st January 2021

• Available for 6 months

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