Summer 2027 Data Science Intern

Peraton is a national security and enterprise IT company delivering mission-critical solutions and technologies across defense, space, cybersecurity, and other domains. The Summer 2027 Data Science Intern will support Internal Research & Development projects by identifying data and insights, developing data-processing pipelines and models, and deploying models into production environments.

What you'll do:

• Join one of our Strategic Innovation Centers and support exciting, advanced research projects in areas such as communications, space, cybersecurity, defense, public safety, and health
• 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

What they're looking for:

• U.S. Citizenship
• HS Diploma and some advanced level training
• Have completed progress towards a bachelor's degree in data science, data analytics, computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
• Foundational experience in data science technologies such as Python, R, Spark, and SQL
• Foundational experience in cleansing and processing data to build features for model development
• Hands 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
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies and concepts
• Self-motivated, independent, detail-oriented, responsible team-player
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• 3.0 and above GPA
• Exposure to Agile development processes and tools

Benefits:

• Collaborative, supportive environment
• Opportunity to grow your skills and your career
• Opportunity to build experience in a variety of different projects and domains