9 Paid Data Science Internships All Freshers Must Apply For

Internships are a great way to kickstart an individual’s career. With the right opportunity at the right time, it becomes the starting point of one’s fruitful career. The internships in data science are meant for those who love playing with large datasets and extracting meaningful information and knowledge from them. In this article, we list 9 data science intern-friendly companies in India which have opened positions for interns.

1| Decathlon

Company Profile: This is the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. Job Profile: Data Analytics Intern Location: Bengaluru Duration: 6 months Stipend: ₹10,000- 20,000/ Month Requirements:

• Assist the innovations team take data-driven decisions for our colleagues in retail and e-commerce
• Sift through the collected data to obtain key insights required for the growth of the business as well as the user base
• Knowledge and working on SQL databases
• Knowledge and working on Python or R platform

Apply here.

2| Spoonshot (formerly dishq)

Company Profile: Spoonshot (formerly dishq) is a Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup that leverages food science and AI to predict consumer tastes and food trends. Job Profile: Data Science Intern Location: Bengaluru Duration: 6 months Stipend: ₹25,000- 40,000 Requirements:

• Create innovative solutions using data across food science, math, and user data to power the recommendation engine.
• Build data pipelines using NLP techniques to make data in-warding efficient from various unstructured data sources.
• Knowledge of Python, Machine learning and Apache Spark

Apply here.

3| Euprime

Company Profile: This company provides analytics software and statistical consulting in healthcare and other industries. Job Profile: Deep Learning/ AI Intern Location: Bengaluru Duration: 6 Months Stipend: ₹14,000- 24,000 Requirements:

• The day-to-day responsibilities include programs in Python, shell, C++ and work on deep learning libraries
• Build a complete full-fledged model and document the process
• Knowledge in libraries like OpenCV, OpenPose, Kaldi

Apply here.

4| Prizmatics

Company Profile: This is artificial intelligence, analytics, and big data based startup started by IIT and IIM alumnus for creating some leading-edge big data analytics products. Job Profile: Data Science Intern Location: Gurgaon Duration: 6 months Stipend: ₹10,000-20,000/ month Requirements:

• Day-to-day responsibilities include use, customize and create algorithms for specific tasks in data science
• Get exposed to and work on cutting-edge products based on ML and AI to create innovative industry solutions
• Work on real-life projects in analytics and the big data area as well as support development of big data platform

Apply here.

5| Payzello

Company Profile: This is India’s first ever smart bank that comprises of features and services ranging from a single virtual card for both Debit and Credit to App-based Credit to money transfer and request mechanism, end-to-end expense, etc. Job Profile: Data Science Intern Location: Hyderabad Duration: 6 months Stipend: up to ₹20,000 pm Requirements:

• Using innovative ideas to collect, curate or synthesize data
• Model the problem into an ML/DL framework
• Build, measure and iterate on neural network architectures that effectively solve the problem
• Benchmark, validate and test the solution for real-world environments
• Optimize the solution for accuracy and performance

Apply here.

6| FedEx

Company Profile: FedEx Express is an eminent transportation company and is the industry's global leader, providing rapid, reliable, time-definite delivery to more than 220 countries and territories. Job Profile: Data Analytics Intern Location: Mumbai Duration: 6 months Stipend: ₹25,000-35,000 Requirements: Day-to-day responsibilities include

• Work closely with the pricing analysts and form part of a core pricing analytics and revenue science team
• Understand the business problem and requirements and translate them into a project plan
• Conduct data analysis by using SQL, SAS, R, Python, etc. to provide insights and recommendations for business problems
• Design and build new applications using VBA & MS-Excel

Apply here.

7| Blackcoffer

Company Profile: Blackcoffer is an enterprise software and analytics consulting firm based in India and the European Union (Malta). It is a data-driven, technology, and decision science firm focused exclusively on big data and analytics, data-driven dashboards, applications development, information management and consulting of any kind, from any source, at massive scale. Job Profile: Data Mining Intern Location: Delhi Duration: 6 months Stipend: up to ₹10,000 Requirements: Day-to-day responsibilities include

• Mine data from social media, and process it for the analysis and insights
• Extract data from internets, and process it for analysis
• Collect data from digital documents such as image, audio, video, pdf, and unstructured file formats
• Mine data from XML, HTML, web URLs, data repo, and make then analytics ready
• Work on the database, data integration, the data lake management, and ETL tasks
• Engage in Python programming, crawling, and analysis

Apply here.

8| Voziq India Pvt. Ltd.

Company Profile: Vozig offers cloud-based machine learning and big data analytics solutions to quickly uncover breakthrough customer churn intelligence from millions of customer interactions and previous records. Job Profile: Data Science Intern Location: Hyderabad Duration: 6 months Stipend: ₹10,000 pm Requirements: The day-to-day responsibilities include

• Explore data from various sources and uncover insights
• Use machine learning, and analytical techniques to create solutions
• Build predictive models from scratch, train and deploy
• Measure the performance of models in production and optimise

Apply here.

9| Vidooly

Company Profile: Vidooly is an online video analytics company based in India. Our software provides video publishers ranking, audience insights, brand safety score, audience overlap and a proprietary video engagement score of over 4.5 million video content creators across the world. Job Profile: ML/AI Trainee Location: Noida Duration: 6 months Stipend: up to ₹12,000 Requirements: Selected intern's day-to-day responsibilities include

• Handle data mining for structured and unstructured data
• Build and evaluate models for machine/deep learning
• Work on image/object recognition/detection using deep learning
• Work on text analysis using natural language processing.

Apply here.