Data Science & Engineering Intern

Company Description

Why we're awesome

We’re an independent marketing agency with big ambitions. We have offices in London, Seattle, Austin, and Singapore. Our clients are large corporations and ambitious start-ups. We provide them with structured campaigns that reach across geographies, scale massively, can be deployed systematically, and are measured relentlessly.

Metia has strategic services designed to support our clients in the areas of Insight, Content, and Demand. These services are based upon deep expertise, proven methodologies, and are enabled by unique tools and systems.

In the past two years we’ve delivered marketing campaigns into almost 90 countries and 40 languages.

Job Description

Metia’s Bellevue office is looking for a Data Science & Engineering Intern to join our Decision Science team. We work with leaders in a range of industries on a wide variety of digital projects which span from email to customer evidence programs to web design and development. 

The Data Science & Engineering Intern is a paid position requiring a six-month, up to 37.5 hour/week commitment. There is potential opportunity to convert to a full-time role upon successful completion of the internship. 

The ideal candidate will be passionate about defining and executing the end-to-end process for delivering business value using a variety of machine learning and data analysis methods. Specifically, this role has a focus on delivering business value by obtaining data through web scraping and using text analytics approaches.

The Data Science and Engineering Intern will execute a range of responsibilities, including identifying ways to obtain data from marketing systems and public data sets, scraping public web sites, designing and managing pipeline architecture and API codebase, building and implementing statistical models, and designing reporting solutions.

What you will do:

• Working with account stakeholders and subject matter experts in Insights, Content and Demand Generation to identify opportunities for leveraging data to improve client outcomes.
• Modelling and analyzing both structured and unstructured data from a variety of first- and third-party data sets to develop insights that positively impact clients’ marketing activities.
• Implementing and improving on existing web scraping processes for data collection
• Maintaining and enhancing existing codebases in Python for existing proprietary algorithms.
• Developing custom data models and algorithms to enhance existing analytics solutions.
• Designing and implementing net new reporting processes to monitor and optimize omnichannel campaigns and product interactions.
• Designing and enhancing dashboards and visualizations, and the underlying data architecture.
• Maintaining existing SQL-based reporting infrastructures, facilitating ETL processes, troubleshooting issues, applying updates, and identifying process improvements.

Qualifications

What you will need to qualify

• A four-year college degree is required; A major, concentration and/or coursework in Computer Science, Mathematics/Statistics, and/or Data Science is preferred. A two-year degree plus additional coursework and/or work experience may substitute.
• Must currently be located within two hours of Bellevue, Washington
• Must be able to commit to a six-month, up to 37.5* hour/week paid internship starting Mid-February 2023
  **Note: Some weeks maybe have fewer hours due to project needs

Why you're awesome

• You have experience extracting and surfacing value from unstructured data.
• You have knowledge and experience in statistical modelling techniques using real-world data: NLP, regression analysis, Neural networks, cluster analysis, lookalike modeling, text mining, social network analysis, etc.
• You have experience with web scraping
• You have a strong eye for detail and a passion for quickly delivering results.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication and time management skills.
• You are comfortable working in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment.
• You are proficient with Python.

Extra points if you have:

• Experience with Power BI and DAX.
• Proficiency in developing and maintaining codebase.
• Experience with both visualizing and presenting data to business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience with scrapy
• Experience with Docker

Additional Information

Metia is an independent agency where the opportunities to take on more responsibility move as quickly as you can create them. If you relish change, enjoy new challenges and seek to excel at your profession, this i