Data Science Intern
Intuit
Data Science Intern
Location(s): Mountain View, California; San Diego, California; New York, New York; Atlanta, GeorgiaCompany Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
This position is intended for students in a degree-seeking program to which they will return to school at the end of the summer internship in 2025, with a graduation date of Winter 2025 or later. If you do not meet these minimum criteria, please revisit our careers site for other opportunities. **
Want to apply your technical skills and innovative ideas on top of the collective financial data of 100+ million consumers and small businesses, and help build data products (in TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Credit Karma) that solve real-world customer problems and power prosperity around the world?
Intuit is seeking Data Science Interns to join us this Summer (2025). Working side-by-side with Intuit's Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers – along with Data Analysts, Software Engineers, and product managers – you will help us understand and improve customer experiences with our products by uncovering critical insights and developing machine learning models.
Areas we are exploring:
- Times series forecasting
- Knowledge Engineering
- Reinforcement Learning/Bandits/Causal Inference
- Image/document understanding
- Intent classification
- NLP/NLU/NLG
- Conversational UI, Chatbots
- Personalization and recommendation
- Deep learning
- Semi-supervised learning
- ML services (autoML, feature recommendation, explainable AI, etc)
Responsibilities
Sample intern projects from previous years:
- Adversarial Deep Learning ranking algorithms for question-answer forums
- Use topic modeling to link form lines to verbose instruction/publication documents
- Patch-based information extraction using an unsupervised form segmentation algorithm
- Assess agent call quality using call transcript data
- Apply deep learning for transaction time series forecasting with uncertainty estimation
- Explore active learning to improve the event labels used to train our supervised models
- Predict cognitive biases using financial data
- A Deep-Learning Approach to building Temporal Recommendation Models
- Real-Time Churn Prediction Models
- Developing an unsupervised knowledge acquisition for question answering with Pre-trained Language Models
- Developing a customer intent classifier model for Intuit Digital Assistant
Qualifications
- Must be currently enrolled in a degree seeking program and return to school after internship is complete
- PhD in Computer Science or related technical field (will consider Masters students with previous experience)
- Familiar with machine learning techniques (regression, classification, clustering, optimization, etc) and understand their mathematical foundations
- Ability to explore, discover and import data from multiple sources and make them machine learning ready
- Design and test hypotheses about causes and cures
- Strong programming skills (Python and Scala preferred)
- Excellent communication skills and ability to learn fast
- Experience in developing machine learning solutions to solve real-world problems is a plus
- Experience with Hadoop or Spark is a plus
- Published works in top tier data science and machine learning conferences such as KDD, ICML, NIPS, ICLR, ACL, SIGIR, WWW, CVPR, SIGMOD, etc. is a plus
"When I encounter a technical problem, I feel driven to find a solution that is simple, human, and easy to understand."
"It’s important to always strive for improvement, even if you’re already in a good place."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
"Designing at Intuit feels special because we're not just making things to make things. We're tackling real, consequential financial problems voiced by small businesses, self-employed, and individuals around the world. I'm grateful to have such a worthy and motivating mission when I go to work – powering prosperity around the world."
"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"By feeding our customers' data through machine learning algorithms, we uncover valuable insights that empower millions of customers to feel more confident about their financial future."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
"We use the latest Native frameworks for iOS and Android to deliver a truly delightful mobile-first experience for our customers. I love that we're enabling millions of customers to improve their financial health, all under a world-class mobile experience."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"It's a great feeling knowing that when you push out a new feature or fix, our customers notice it and really love the work that we do! Here at Intuit, not only do we have the freedom to work with the newest technologies, but we value solving challenging financial problems for our customers above everything else."
"One of my favorite aspects of this role is that my work is helping small business owners achieve their business goals by solving complex financial problems. It's gratifying to know that the work that I'm doing directly impacts consumers and makes their lives easier so that they can focus their energy on growing their business."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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