Summer 2026 Data Science Intern
Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking Summer 2026 Data Science Interns in support of our Internal Research & Development (IRAD) program which will be conducted in our Herndon, VA, West Lafayette, IN or Blacksburg, VA offices.
Join our Technology and Engineering Software Delivery Center and support exciting research projects in areas such as health, finance, defense, and cybersecurity. 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.
We ask that each intern be available to work the duration of the ten weeks (June to August) and commit to working a minimum of 35-40 hours per week. This program is geared toward technical college students, actively enrolled at a four-year university, who will be rising into their junior or senior years. However, strong underclassmen may be considered if they have declared their major and have completed qualified coursework.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- HS Diploma and some advanced level training.
- U.S. Citizenship.
- 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.
Desired Qualifications:
- 3.0 and above GPA.
- Exposure to Agile development processes and tools.
- Familiarity developing ETL and data quality pipelines that process vast amounts of data.
- Prior experience with distributed compute architectures such as Spark, Kubernetes, or Docker containers.
- Ability to describe complex, technical problems to business stakeholders in a non-technical way.
- Ability to self-manage day to day tasks independently and communicate collaboratively with leadership and other development teams.
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Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
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