Data Science Intern, Etsy, Brooklyn, NY

Etsy is looking for Data Science Interns to join our Data Science team in Brooklyn, New York. 

Description

Etsy is looking for Data Science Interns to join our Data Science team in Brooklyn, New York. We are committed to advancing the fields around E-commerce by building technologies to help understand our customers and the world. We are seeking individuals passionate in areas such as Machine Learning, Data Mining, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Computational Advertising, Deep Learning and Computer Vision. Our interns have an opportunity to make core algorithmic advances and apply their ideas in the dynamic world of E-commerce. Interns could publish their innovations at top tier conferences such as KDD, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, WWW, WSDM, SIGIR and etc. This position would be based in Brooklyn, New York.

What We’re Working On

• Recommendation and Personalization
• Natural Language Processing and Query Understanding
• Image Processing and Understanding
• Text Understanding
• Ranking for Search and Ads
• Fraud and Abuse Detection
• Large-scale Machine Learning

Who You Are

• You share our values (below) and are looking for a company that has a solid mission.
• You have strong analytical and quantitative skills. You are familiar with techniques in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Computational Advertising, Deep Learning and Computer Vision or related fields.
• You are currently enrolled in a full-time Ph.D degree program in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Computational Advertising, Deep Learning and Computer Vision or related fields, and returning to the program after the completion of the internship.
• You have strong technical and programming skills. You are familiar with relevant technologies and languages (e.g. Python, Java, C++ and etc.). You have experience in or desire to learn Hadoop/Spark related Big Data technologies.
• You have demonstrated the capability to review and write technical papers.
• You need to contribute research that can be applied to Etsy product development.
• You have the ability to quickly prototype ideas and can solve complex problems by adapting creative approaches.
• You are a strong collaborator and communicator and you make the engineers around you grow and learn.  

What we care about

• Curiosity and humility.  We are dedicated to learning and constantly improving.  We hope you also value things like blameless postmortems and have a natural drive to figure out how everything works.
• Keeping it real.  Etsy’s mission and values are a part of everything we do.  We care about how our work affects real people in the community and enjoy opportunities to meet them.  We are motivated by this mission every day.

What’s Next

If you’re interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter along with your CV/Resume telling us why you’d be right for the position. As you’ve probably guessed, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don’t want you to be like everyone else, we don’t even want you to be like us–we want you to be like you! So write to us, in your own human voice, and tell us what you’re all about.

Feel free to point us to your latest publication and any other online presence you may have including Github, Weblogs and others.