Data Scientist/Analyst Intern

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We're looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

Enhanced Services is responsible for products that provide traffic management, content delivery, data path network function virtualization, capacity optimization and load balancing, web acceleration, and management of our mobile terminals to ensure connectivity and Service Level Agreements are maintained while making efficient use of available capacity.

As a Data Scientist/Analyst Intern, you will collaborate with our team to develop a satellite coverage evaluator service that assesses performance at each hour using sophisticated data science and machine learning methods.

Job responsibilities will include:

• Working with large datasets
• Effectively manipulating structured and unstructured data, identify inconsistencies, and clean large amounts of data using software tools
• Collaborating with multi-functional teams to develop production-ready data products

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics or related quantitative field
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Experience working with big data/visualization tools (Splunk, Grafana, etc.)
• Strong foundation in mathematics, statistics, linear algebra, and/or machine learning algorithms
• Expertise in data wrangling, exploratory analysis, and/or feature engineering techniques
• Ability to commit to a 10-12 week summer internship

• Currently pursuing a Master's degree or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics or related quantitative field
• Excellent communication and data storytelling skills
• Outstanding problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
• Collaborative working approach that enables a multi-functional team distributed across multiple time zones
• Prior proven experience or impactful research projects

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click .