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You’ll have the opportunity to work in a collaborative, supportive environment with our full-time staff, allowing you to grow your skills and your career while building experience in a variety of different projects and domains. You’ll work in an Agile development environment to identify requirements, data, and key insights needed for developing models that derive business value from data science. You’ll develop code to clean data, develop complex feature sets, and build models using industry leading technologies and frameworks. And you’ll deploy those models into production environments using techniques that continuously evaluate model quality.\nWe ask that each intern be available to work the duration of the ten weeks (June to August) and commit to working a minimum of 35-40 hours per week. This program is geared toward technical college students, actively enrolled at a four-year university, who will be rising into their junior or senior years. However, strong underclassmen may be considered if they have declared their major and have completed qualified coursework.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nU.S. Citizenship.\nHS Diploma and some advanced level training. \nHave completed progress towards a bachelor’s degree in data science, data analytics, computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.\nFoundational experience in data science technologies such as Python, R, Spark, and SQL.\nFoundational experience in cleansing and processing data to build features for model development.\nHands on experience through coursework and/or prior internships working with data science frameworks such as Tensorflow, Sci-kit learn, Numpy, PyTorch, Matplotlib, Shap, and/or similar tools.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to quickly adapt and learn new technologies and concepts. \nSelf-motivated, independent, detail-oriented, responsible team-player.\nStrong written and oral communication skills.\nDesired Qualifications:\n3.0 and above GPA. \nExposure to Agile development processes and tools.\nFamiliarity developing ETL and data quality pipelines that process vast amounts of data.\nPrior experience with distributed compute architectures such as Spark, Kubernetes, or Docker containers.\nAbility to describe complex, technical problems to business stakeholders in a non-technical way. \nAbility to self-manage day to day tasks independently and communicate collaboratively with leadership and other development teams.\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. 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