Data Science Intern

LinQuest is seeking a Data Science Intern to join our team in Dayton, Ohio. US citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance are required. 

This internship will span 8 -12 weeks during the summer (Flexible start/end dates) with the potential to go part time past this period.

This LinQtern will gain experience with Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Engineering in a team setting using python/R/SQL focused languages. This position is strong data and analytics focused, you will gain experience on our team supporting the government and LINC team.

Responsibilities:

• Participate with team using data science and statistical techniques to identify data of interest, extract structured data from unstructured sources, and apply many other data wrangling patterns to make our corpus of data more useful.
• Apply techniques from natural language processing (NLP) to understand textual data, including named entity recognition, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis.
• Use neural networks and other machine learning (ML) concepts to find patterns in our data and to predict outcomes using tabular data (that we created via our wrangling).

Required Experience and Skills:

• You must be a college student in good standing, enrolled in a 4 year university in your Junior or Senior year
• Pursing a Bachelors degree in (Computer Science, Information Systems, Math, or equivalent)
• You must have a minimum college GPA requirement of 3.00 on a 4.00 scale. If you are selected for an internship, you must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.00 after each completed semester/term
• Proficient in MS Office Products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with willingness to learn
• Strong communication and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Programming languages for data manipulation and analysis such as (python/R/SQL)
• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance are required 

 Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Retrieving and analyzing datasets from databases and other systems
• Previous data science, computer science or similar internship experience
• Data visualization tools such as Tableau, Qlikview, MS Power BI, Plotly, or Matplotlib
• Big data tools such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, or Palantir Foundry

Benefits:

LinQuest offers comprehensive and competitive benefit offerings to our team members to include medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, company paid life insurance, and more!  For additional information please visit: https://www.linquest.com/careers/our-benefits

Why LinQuest?

LinQuest Corporation has a stellar 40-year track record of providing end-to-end system-of-systems (SoS) architecture definition, engineering design, integration and test, and operations expertise to enable full lifecycle development and deployment of pre-eminent Space, Air, Land, Sea, Ground, and Cyberspace game-changing capabilities across US DOD and IC Customers’ portfolios.   Unique combination of in-depth domain knowledge, lessons learned-honed best practices, and mission-specific applications of principles, tools, and techniques of Digital Engineering (DE), DE Ecosystem (DEE), and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) set LinQuest apart from the competition to consistently deliver stellar high-value results for our customers.  LinQuest’s corporate vision and values place the employee at the center of utmost customer satisfaction, strategic business growth, and tactical execution excellence.  Our employees’ creative and inspirational drive, sense of fulfillment of personal and professional growth, and tightknit camaraderie within and across lines of business are essential in gaining and maintaining exceptional LinQuest corporate-wide results of new business awards and renewed contracts.