Temporary Intern, Data Scientist

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

Responsibilities:

  • 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:

  • 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:

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