πWorldwide
Data Science Intern
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Wealthsimple
πRemote - Worldwide
Summary
Join Wealthsimple's Data Science & Engineering team as an intern and contribute to projects transforming financial services for Canadians. This 4-month (May-August 2025) remote-first internship offers mentorship and connection to the broader Wealthsimple community. You'll work on a team building a data warehouse, leveraging machine learning, and using decision science. The ideal candidate is driven, takes ownership, enjoys challenges, and is comfortable with self-directed learning. Wealthsimple offers competitive salaries, generous vacation, intern programming, employee resource groups, wellness days, and a positive work environment.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled as a student at a Canadian post-secondary institution or technical bootcamp
- New graduates - Within 6 months of your graduation date
- Available to work full-time hours
- Residing in Canada
- Familiarity with Python, SQL
- Basic understanding of statistics: either frequentist and Bayesian approaches
- Basic understanding of fundamental machine-learning algorithms: regression and decision trees
- First-hand experience working with popular Python libraries such as Pandas, scikt-learn, numpy and Jupyter
- Excellent communicator
Responsibilities
- Build a high-quality and scalable state-of-the-art data warehouse that powers all decision making
- Leverage machine learning and algorithms to help Wealthsimple build smarter financial products
- Use decision science to understand the cause and effect of our business decisions
Preferred Qualifications
- Are driven to ship frequently
- Take ownership and pride in working on projects to successful completion
- Enjoy tackling new, complex challenges on a regular basis
- Are comfortable with self-directed learning
- Believe that debate, inclusivity and transparency result in better products
- Are eager to learn from your team and others. We value making one another successful!
Benefits
- Competitive salary with retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
- Generous vacation days and unlimited sick and mental health days
- Intern programming including educational workshops, hackathons, and mentorship
- A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
- Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
This job is filled or no longer available
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