Data Science Intern — Forecasting & Asset Analytics (AR)

Summit Utilities; Fayetteville (AR); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Summit Utilities seeks a Data Scientist Intern in Fayetteville, AR, with opportunities in Fort Smith or Little Rock as well. You’ll support building data science solutions to improve safety, reliability, and efficiency in natural gas operations while working under experienced data scientists.

The role emphasizes data exploration, feature engineering, model development, and communicating findings across operational and business teams. Strong quantitative coursework is required.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s program in a quantitative field; rising junior or senior or current grad student preferred.
• Coursework or internship experience involving statistics, machine learning, or quantitative analytics.
• Exposure to model development process - data preparation, feature engineering, training, and evaluation.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Snowflake, or Databricks is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building, validating, and iterating ML/optimization models for demand forecasting, weather normalization, asset health, operations optimization, and customer segmentation.
• Support exploratory data analysis, data profiling, and feature engineering across work orders, weather/climate, SCADA, billing, and gas usage data.
• Contribute to model development pipelines in Microsoft Fabric and assist with data quality checks and validation of inputs/outputs.
• Develop visualizations and quantitative summaries, and document analytical logic, data sources, and assumptions for the team.
• Complete an assigned project and present results to AI and Enterprise Data teams and leadership.

Skills

Python for data analysis

SQL basics

Data visualization

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Data Science/Stats/Math

Coursework/Projects in statistics or ML

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Summit Utilities seeks a Data Scientist Intern in Fayetteville, AR, with opportunities in Fort Smith or Little Rock as well. You’ll support building data science solutions to improve safety, reliability, and efficiency in natural gas operations while working under experienced data scientists.

The role emphasizes data exploration, feature engineering, model development, and communicating findings across operational and business teams. Strong quantitative coursework is required.