Temporary Intern, Data Scientist

Cotiviti

Data Science intern working on real healthcare data problems alongside experienced professionals at Cotiviti. Involves model evaluation, data wrangling, and deployment tasks.

Posted 6/6/2026internshipRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesEntry Level💰 $20 - $26 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PandasPythonScikit-LearnSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and evaluate classification or regression models using Python and standard ML libraries
Engineer features from claims, clinical, or operational datasets
Clean, transform, and profile datasets; document data-quality findings and assumptions
Write SQL against relational databases to extract and shape analytical inputs
Build lightweight APIs or endpoints to surface model outputs (e.g., FastAPI)
Contribute to version-controlled, reproducible workflows using Git
Document pipelines so teammates can extend and audit your work
Assist with experiments at the intersection of ML and healthcare workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need

Education: currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field
Programming: hands-on experience with Python for data analysis — pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib
Core ML: solid understanding of classification, regression, train/test discipline, and model evaluation
SQL: comfort writing queries against relational databases
Project ownership: experience taking a project end-to-end — question, data, model, insight — through coursework, personal projects, or prior internships
Communication: ability to explain technical work clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Mentorship from experienced data scientists and engineers on a dedicated summer project
Cohort programming
Cross-functional networking
Competitive intern compensation

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLclassification modelsregression modelsdata cleaningdata transformationdata profilingfeature engineeringFastAPIGit

Soft Skills

communicationproject ownership