Data Science Engineering, Summer Intern (Hybrid/Remote/Office-based)

Job Description

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. Our talented team of scientists, engineers, genealogists, historians, and storytellers is dedicated to empowering customers around the world from all backgrounds on their journeys of personal discovery. With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 100+ million family trees, and 20+ million people in our growing AncestryDNA database, Ancestry helps customers discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? You belong at Ancestry. Ancestry is looking for a Data Science Engineering Intern who is interested in computer vision and deep learning to join our Data Science team for the Summer of 2022. The Data Science team is working on some of the most challenging and impactful genealogy content data problems such as ranking, computer vision, and NLP. The Data Science Engineering team continuously works to build and enhance our AI platform to facilitate both products and business needs. As a Data Science Engineering Intern, on the Data Science Engineering team you will contribute by building scalable components to be added into the AI platform. You'll work with data scientists and engineers to deploy models. You would also test different architectures and technologies for several machine learning and deep learning models to improve the AI platform scalability and performance.

What you will do...

• Investigate and understand different cloud tools
• Investigate and understand different software optimization techniques
• Test different architectures for load and performance
• Design and build components that is going to be a part of ML AI platform
• Design and build components that would help to improve scalability, performance, and cost optimization
• Work with teams to solve interesting data science and software engineering problems
• You will code review and bug fixing
• You will do software documentation

Who you are...

• Experience with Python and Java along with an understanding of CS fundamentals and object-oriented programming
• Experience with Computer Vision is a bonus
• Experience with machine learning theory and practice is helpful
• Experience using machine learning software such as Pytorch, TensorFlow
• Experience with economics theory and business practices
• Experience with Hadoop or Spark and C++ is a bonus

Internship Program Details: Students must be currently enrolled in an accredited U.S. educational institution with a graduation date after August 2022. Summer 2022 program dates are May 16th – September 9th** (Please note that we will have three intern onboarding dates to choose from: May 16th, June 6th and June 21st. Students may offboard every Friday, beginning August 12th. All internships must be wrapped up by September 9th.) FULLY PAID temporary housing and travel to and from internship All summer internships will be in Lehi, Utah. You will work a combined hybrid and office-based schedule that allows you to choose which days you come into the office and which days you work from temporary housing/home (Utah students). Interns have the opportunity to network and partner with other interns and industry-leading professionals. You will participate in engaging events including executive speaker sessions, professional development, and our annual Intern Days to showcase your project and work. Full-time schedule (40 hours/week) required; Monday-Friday Company-issued laptop and equipment provided for the duration of the internship program Our interns enjoy mentorship and experience challenging work while receiving a great compensation package, temporary housing, and having a fun captivating experience—we have it all. Oh, and did we mention the possibility of full-time employment once you graduate? #LI-SJ2 Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means. Apply for this job