Data Science Intern

Job Description

DATA SCIENCE
Santa Clara, CA, United States
Organization: Outcomes Data Science & Analytics
The Outcomes Data Science & Analytics team is composed of data scientists and business analysts. The team influences strategy and works closely with the product, engineering, marketing, and business leaders and is responsible for generating insights and reporting for the new careers products and services at Chegg.
Role: Data Science Internship
We’re looking for highly motivated interns to join our team and work on a number of applied data science problems within the education and career space. Interns on our Data Science team will apply data mining and machine learning algorithms to drive key business metrics and help growing revenues from enterprise customers.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with others on the Data Science & Analytics team, as well as cross-functionally with product, marketing, engineering, and business teams to understand project goals.
• Identify potential data sources. Conduct exploratory data analyses.
• Build statistical models, including classification models, NLP algorithms and search algorithms and other relevant algorithms.
• Establish model evaluation metrics. Evaluate model performance. Present and interpret model conclusions in ways to help drive strategic business decisions.

Requirements:

• Pursuing an MS/PhD Degree in a quantitative field (computer science, statistics, engineering, economics, or a related field)
• A strong interest in using data mining and statistical models to understand user needs, drive business metrics and improve product efficiencies
• Good data mining skills with strong attention to details
• Experience with machine learning and other advanced analytical methods
• Experience with a scripting language, preferably Python or R
• Self-motivated; independent, organized and proactive; highly responsive, flexible, and adaptable when working across multiple product teams; interest in Chegg’s mission
• Strong creative and critical thinking skills
• Be legally allowed to work in the US (US citizen, green card, or F1 student visa holder)
• Have the ability to intern in Santa Clara, California
• Have the ability to work for a continuous 10 weeks in the summer of 2020

Nice to have:

• Experience using Amazon Web Services infrastructure
• Experience with SQL

Use ML algorithms to analyze user journey and improve recommendation results for both candidates and employers.

Data mining, graph analysis/graph models, recommendation algorithms, and business application of ML models.

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About Chegg

Chegg puts students first. As the leading connected learning platform, the company makes higher education more affordable, more accessible, and more successful for students. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California, and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG. For more information, visit www.chegg.com.

Chegg is an equal opportunity employer