2025 Summer Intern: Data Engineer

Company Overview
Spectrum is the nation's fastest-growing mobile provider and leading internet provider. Our tech teams create, develop, and operate leading connectivity products serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We connect people to what's next. This position is eligible to work in a hybrid work model (combination of in-office and remote days).

At a Glance

• You're a motivated rising senior with a 3.0 GPA or higher seeking a bachelor's degree in one of the following areas listed below from an accredited college or university:
  • Information Technology, Information Science, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering Technology Management, Computer Information Systems, Business Technology Management
• This is a learning-intensive program designed to give you essential business insights and hands-on experience in your field of choice. It's a full-time, 10-week commitment from May 28, 2025, through August 1, 2025.
• Benefits include professional development sessions, networking opportunities, and mentorship.

The Spectrum Internship Experience
You have clear aspirations and are seeking a summer internship program that will help you meet them. Find it at Spectrum, named one of the 2023 Top 100 Internship Programs in the United States by WayUp and Yello.

Our internships are designed to provide:

• Opportunities to gain new skills and elevate the ones you already have, all in a robust and forward-thinking business setting.
• First-rate, hands-on experience in the telecommunications industry.
• Opportunities to connect you with people who can give you a better understanding of the industry and help you accomplish real goals you can add to your resume, this includes assigning you a formal mentor and interactions with senior executives.

What you can expect in this role

As a Spectrum Intern, you'll be essential to two teams - your respective department and your Intern peer group. Department and team-focused projects account for about 80% of your schedule. You'll spend the other 20% on professional development sessions and networking activities, including the Kickoff Conference on May 28, webinars, community service, cross-functional project, and final presentations.

Internship responsibilities may include:

• Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Maintain systems that support data operations for Data Science, and customers.
• Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc.).
• Use ETL processes in order to maintain, improve, clean, and manipulate data.
• Deliver solutions by developing, testing, and implementing code and scripts.
• Produce reports and uphold data delivery schedules.
• Manage life cycle of multiple data sources.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Here's what it takes to get started

Required qualifications

• Must be enrolled in an accredited College or University graduating with a bachelor's degree between December 2025 - May 2026
• Must have at least a 3.0 GPA or greater in current program
• Ability to travel locally to Spectrum Intern development events and activities throughout the program
• Authorization to work in the U.S. without restrictions or need for future sponsorship

Preferred qualifications

• Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
• Basic coding/scripting experience using Python, R, shell scripts
• Basic experience with SQL, Tableau, and ETL techniques
• Basic background in Linux/CentOS installation and administration
• Basic knowledge in data storage that demonstrates knowledge of when to use a file system, relational database, or NoSQL variant
• Basic knowledge Spark, and Hadoop/Hive Effective attention to detail with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute multiple tasks
• Ability to learn new techniques, methods, and concepts regarding data
• Ability to learning programming languages
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Oral and written skills
• Organizational skills
• Problem solving abilities
• Proficient in Software including Adobe, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word