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January 17, 2026
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Associate Data Scientist Intern 2026

Houston, TX
Internship
Onsite
Intern
IBM is a leading company in consulting, focused on improving the hybrid cloud and AI journey for innovative clients. As an Associate Data Scientist Intern, you'll enhance your knowledge and gain professional experience by working on client projects, with opportunities for mentorship and skill development.

Responsibilities

  • Receive mentorship from diverse professionals in science engineering and consulting applying analytical rigor and statistical methods to predict behaviors
  • Develop skills in writing efficient and reusable programs to cleanse integrate and model data
  • Assist in conveying analytical results to both technical and non-technical audiences, refining your ability to communicate complex findings
  • Utilize program languages like Python to build data pipelines, extracting and transforming data from repositories to consumers

Qualification

Required

  • Currently pursuing a quantitative degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
  • Strong Interpersonal skills that enhance collaboration and relationship building, while also managing dynamic workloads in an agile environment
  • Have initiative and passion to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills while embracing a growth mindset to assimilate diverse viewpoints
  • Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to communicate effectively through active listening; while also be willing to adapt and have a readiness to take ownership of tasks and challenges
  • Familiarity with one or more scripting languages (Python preferred), or a proven computer science foundation
  • Willingness to travel as needed

Preferred

  • Demonstrate familiarity or interest in statistical analysis or data mining through previous internships, personal/academic projects, hackathons, and/or publications
  • General familiarity with databases, data-engineering tools (SQL, Spark, Snowflake) and cloud platforms (e.g., IBM Cloud, Azure, AWS). Experience with NLP/LLM/GenAI is a plus
  • Experience using machine-learning/data science libraries in python (scikit-learn, SciPy, pandas, PyTorch) is a plus

Benefits

IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.
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