Data Science Intern - Summer 2025

Key Skills

Big Data Technology, Data science techniques, Leadership Skill, R Programming, Data Analysis

Job Description

WSP USA hosts hundreds of interns across the United States to gain hands-on, meaningful work experience to enhance their education and professional aptitude. Our interns gain exposure to real projects while working side by side with senior staff. Through our Developing Professionals Network, interns gain mentorship, networking opportunities and lifelong career connections.

Our Advisory and Planning Team is seeking a Data Science Intern to work out of our Seattle, WA office. This temporary position is seeking individuals currently enrolled in an Undergraduate or Graduate degree program.

This internship will be part of the WSP Summer Internship Program. As a summer intern, you have the opportunity to participate in our 12-week program scheduled to start on May 19th, 2025. The individual start date of the internship may be flexible.

Your Impact

• Under general supervision, assist with sourcing, collecting, compiling, and analyzing structured and unstructured data from a variety of travel and transportation sources, financial reports, computer-generated reports, and other matrices and disparate sources.
• Assist with performing basic professional data scientist work with identifying the data-analytics problems, data anomalies that offer the greatest opportunities to the assigned task.
• Under general supervision, assist with preparing transportation applications using data, visualizations, and reports summarizing research and specifications with findings and conclusions; generating complete, accurate, and concise documentation using dashboards, tables, charts, calculations, and illustrations.
• Apply Statistical and Machine Learning methods to specific transportation and safety analytics problems and data.
• Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, transformation, cleaning, validating, and cross-lingual alignment/mapping, etc.
• Under general supervision, assist with assigned aspects of the design, development, evaluation, and release of highly innovative models that elevate the customer experience and track impact over time.
• Triage client requests to ensure project success to include completion in time and for the results to be useful.
• Assist with professional deliverables on projects and proposals.
• Other duties as required by business needs.
• Complete training on assigned tasks.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
• Please note that there is no relocation or housing assistance associated with this internship.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Actively enrolled in an accredited Math, Computer Programming, Statistics, Data Analysis, Transportation, Urban Planning, or related, Undergraduate program with an anticipated graduation date of August 2025 or later.
• Must be 18 or older.
• Demonstrated interest in Data Science, or related, field and have a strong desire to advance skills related to WSP’s work and projects.
• Competent interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
• Capable of taking direction from leadership, mentors, and managers to executive projects.
• Basic proficiency with technical writing, office automation, software, spreadsheets, technology, and tools.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Authorization to work in the United States at the start of the internship

Preferred Qualifications

• Actively enrolled in an accredited Math, Computer Programming, Statistics, Data Analysis, Transportation, Urban Planning, or related, Masters or PhD program with an anticipated graduation date of August 2025 or later.
• Experience using R, Google API, Replica, StreetLight and Inrix, GTFS, transit ridership, crash data, equity information, or business intelligence and big data technologies.
• Prior internship and leadership involvement on campus

Compensation:

Expected Salary: $19.57 - $30.53 per hour

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.