Applied Science Intern - Masters - 2027 - Austin, San Jose, Seattle

Expedia; Austin (TX); Vor Ort; USD 36.000 - 45.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Expedia Group is offering a hands-on ML internship where you will design and prototype ML models, work on real business priorities, and learn through structured onboarding and mentorship. You will collaborate across teams to deliver measurable ML solutions and gain exposure to production-ready workflows.

This program emphasizes practical skill-building and professional development. Interns will engage in projects that influence travel search and recommendations, while expanding their network

Aufgaben

• Travel is more than reaching a destination; you will help reimagine how people search for travel with ML.
• Design, prototype, and evaluate ML models under guidance of senior ML scientists, contributing to well-scoped experiments.
• Implement clean, maintainable model training and inference code with unit tests and reproducible workflows.
• Participate in low-level system, API design, and data modeling for ML-powered features.
• Explore and prepare data using statistics and ML techniques to improve model quality and fairness.
• Collaborate with peers, mentors, data scientists, engineers, and product partners to define success metrics.
• Learn to work with AI-driven systems and apply AI/ML concepts to real-world products safely.

Jobbeschreibung

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

*Note: Applications will remain live for at least 5 business days when the role is posted. The post will be removed when application targets are met.

Internship Program Highlights:

• Start strong from day one: Your first week is designed to help you build connections, settle in quickly, and get set up for success through cohort orientation, support, and structured onboarding.
• Learn the skills that matter: You will take part in role-specific technical and professional skills learning, delivered through a mix of in-person and virtual sessions, to help you build confidence and capability from the start.
• Work on meaningful projects: Interns join Expedia Group teams and contribute to real business priorities and workstreams. At the end of the internship, you will showcase your work to team members and senior leaders.
• Grow beyond your day job: Our Learning Series includes interactive workshops focused on professional development and workplace skills, with topics such as personal branding, communication, and presentation skills.
• Gain exposure to leaders: Through our Leadership Series, interns take part in exclusive events with Travel Leadership Team leaders to hear about their career journeys, learn more about the business, and ask questions directly.
• Build your network and community: You will join an intern cohort and take part in regular social events designed to help you build relationships, experience Expedia Group culture, and have fun along the way.
• Receive dedicated mentorship: Every intern is paired with a mentor to support development, learning, and career exploration throughout the program, while also helping expand your network across Expedia Group.
• Feel supported throughout the experience: Interns receive ongoing coaching and guidance from managers, team navigators, and a dedicated Emerging Talent & Careers contact, so there is always a strong support system in place.

In this role you will:

Travel is so much more than simply reaching your destination. Along the way you will make an immediate impact on reimagining the way people search for travel with our awesome team by inventing brand-new techniques to power global travel for everyone, everywhere. From building pipelines and prototyping new ML models with A/B testing, to applying new techniques to services that run tens of thousands of requests per second, there is no shortage of opportunities for technical innovation at Expedia Group - the sky's the limit!

Design, prototype, and evaluate machine learning models under the guidance of more experienced machine learning scientists, contributing to well-scoped research and product-focused experiments.

Implement clean, maintainable model training and inference code using standard Software Engineering practices, including basic unit testing, code reviews, and reproducible experimentation workflows.

Participate in low-level system design, API design, and data modeling for ML-powered features, learning how to translate product and data requirements into robust, production-aware ML solutions.

Explore, analyze, and prepare data using fundamental statistical and ML techniques to improve model quality, robustness, and fairness, including feature engineering and basic error analysis.

Collaborate with peers, mentors, data scientists, engineers, and product partners to understand problem spaces, define success metrics, and iterate on ML solutions that deliver measurable impact.

Learn to work with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes within defined guidance and scope.