Data Science Intern: Real-World Energy Analytics

First Solar, Inc.; Perrysburg Township (OH); On-site; USD 30,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

First Solar, Inc. invites motivated students to join a 3-month Spring 2027 internship across multiple departments including R&D, marketing, IT, and engineering.

Interns gain hands-on experience, tackle real-world problems, and contribute to projects advancing a cleaner energy future. Applicants must be pursuing an Engineering, Math, Data Science, or Computer Science degree, be in their Bachelor's program (3rd year+), and able to enroll in classes while interning.

Qualifications

• Must be pursuing Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field degree.
• Must currently be enrolled in a Bachelors (3rd year or later), who is fulfilling a graduation requirement for their degree.
• First Solar encourages all interns to register their internship with their university.
• 2+ years collaboration in a team setting at school or work.
• Course work in mathematics and statistics.
• Course work in computer programming or data science. (Python scripting language and SQL preferred)
• Previous project experience with data analysis and modelling.

Responsibilities

• Help Develop pipelines that extract significant features from key data sets.
• Build custom analytical tools.
• Contribute to automated scripting and analysis for larger software packages.
• Support the team to perform data extraction, cleaning, analysis and deliver actionable insights.
• Contribute to feature selection and development of machine learning models to uncover value of data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and perform Ad hoc analysis.
• The candidate will work closely with Data Scientists on multiple data analysis use cases.
• Upon the completion of this internship, the intern is required to present their accomplishments and project summary to the leadership team.

Skills

Python

R

Data Analysis

Statistics

Teamwork

Communication

Problem Solving

Microsoft Office

Analytical thinking

Education

Pursuing Engineering/CS/Math

3rd year or later in Bachelor's

Graduation requirement

Math & Statistics coursework

Programming/Data Science coursework

Project experience in data analysis

Tools

Python

SQL

Excel

Job description

First Solar, Inc. invites motivated students to join a 3-month Spring 2027 internship across multiple departments including R&D, marketing, IT, and engineering.

Interns gain hands-on experience, tackle real-world problems, and contribute to projects advancing a cleaner energy future. Applicants must be pursuing an Engineering, Math, Data Science, or Computer Science degree, be in their Bachelor's program (3rd year+), and able to enroll in classes while interning.