
Data Science Intern
Rocket Mortgage
internship
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $10 - $28 per hour
Job Level
About the role
- Learn about our business by attending meetings, huddles, and training.
- Share creative ideas that will help improve our business.
- Deliver reports, analyze metrics, and summarize information to help drive our team forward.
- Assist in creating materials and/or presentations for meetings.
- Take notes during meetings and provide recaps.
- Collaborate with data scientists and data engineers to build, evaluate, and refine AI and machine learning models, with a focus on large language model (LLM) applications and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
- Assist in designing and implementing data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation workflows.
- Write clean, well-documented code in Python (or other relevant programming languages) to support data analysis, model prototyping, and automation tasks.
- Leverage AI-powered coding and productivity tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate development and maintain code quality.
- Partner with internal clients and business stakeholders to understand requirements, translate business questions into analytical frameworks, and communicate findings clearly.
- Perform exploratory data analysis and apply statistical methods to extract insights from structured and unstructured data sources.
- Query and manipulate data from relational databases and other data stores to support analysis and model development.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's (Senior Level) or Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- Foundational understanding of large language models (LLMs), including concepts such as prompt engineering, fine-tuning, embeddings, and token-based architectures.
- Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns and their application in building context-aware AI systems.
- Solid grounding in basic statistics and probability, including hypothesis testing, regression analysis, distributions, and exploratory data analysis.
- Hands-on programming experience in Python (preferred) or another language commonly used in data science (e.g., R, SQL, Julia).
- Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL for data querying and manipulation.
- Experience with or willingness to adopt AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar.
- Experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face Transformers.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization tools (Docker).
- Experience with version control systems (Git) and collaborative development workflows.
- A portfolio of personal projects, coursework, or open-source contributions demonstrating applied data science or AI work.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K retirement plan
- Paid-time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonRSQLJuliascikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowHugging Face Transformersdata preprocessingfeature engineering
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationcreativityanalytical thinkingnote-takingreportingpresentation skillsproblem-solvingadaptabilityteamwork