Data Science Intern: Impactful Analytics & ML

Visa; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa’s Internship Program offers a 12-week immersive journey where you’ll work on impactful projects that advance Visa’s mission. As an intern, you’ll network across the organization, sharpen communications, and gain hands-on experience in a global setting.

You’ll participate in workshops, learn industry concepts, and contribute to data-driven initiatives. The internship culminates in a final presentation to Visa leaders, showcasing your impact and personal growth in a collaborative, innovative

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Data Science, Information Technology, Statistics, or a related STEM/quantitative field, graduating December 2027– August 2028
• Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications that demonstrate professional judgment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large-scale datasets using modern, cloud-based data and analytics platforms, applying tools such as Claude Code, Python, SQL, Spark, and other cloud-native technologies.
• Leverage governed data assets and reusable pipelines to conduct exploratory analysis, develop features, evaluate trends, and generate insights for business, product, client, and operational use cases.
• Apply data science and decision science methods, including statistical analysis, machine learning, experimentation, forecasting, segmentation, optimization, performance measurement, and decision modeling.
• Develop and evaluate models and decision frameworks that help teams understand business opportunities, assess tradeoffs, and make responsible, data-informed decisions.
• Create and enhance dashboards and visualizations using platforms such as PowerBI, Tableau, and conversational BI tools to communicate trends, metrics, and performance.
• Translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations and communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across data science, product, technology, data & analytics, privacy, governance, and regional and global partners
• Recommend improvements to analytical workflows, tools, and processes with a focus on scalability, reuse, automation, and long-term business value.

Skills

SQL

Python

Excel

PowerPoint

Tableau

ML techniques

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Graduating December 2027–August 2028

Tools

Claude Code

Power BI

Spark

Tableau

Job description

Visa’s Internship Program offers a 12-week immersive journey where you’ll work on impactful projects that advance Visa’s mission. As an intern, you’ll network across the organization, sharpen communications, and gain hands-on experience in a global setting.

You’ll participate in workshops, learn industry concepts, and contribute to data-driven initiatives. The internship culminates in a final presentation to Visa leaders, showcasing your impact and personal growth in a collaborative, innovative