Hybrid Data Science Intern — Insights & Impact

Zillow Group; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking a Data Science Intern to turn data into insights. You’ll apply quantitative and programming skills to a scoped project with guidance from your team during a nine-week summer internship in 2027.

The program runs in Seattle with a hybrid schedule and a stipend to offset housing and relocation costs. You’ll work with data scientists and cross-functional partners to define questions, prepare data, and interpret results, delivering recommendations and clear visualizations for

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative field.
• Foundation in probability, statistics, and data analysis through coursework, research, or projects.
• Can use Python or R, or a similar programming language, to manipulate data and perform analysis.
• Familiarity with SQL and relational data, or a demonstrated ability and willingness to learn.
• Enjoy asking questions, investigating patterns, and bringing structure to ambiguous problems.
• Approach analysis thoughtfully: you check assumptions, validate results, and distinguish what the data supports from what remains uncertain.
• Can explain your thinking clearly and collaborate with people who bring different technical and non-technical backgrounds.
• Are curious about using AI tools to support your work while maintaining independent judgment, validating outputs, and following data-handling guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Partner with your manager and stakeholders to turn an open-ended business question into an analytical plan with clear goals and deliverables.
• Use SQL and Python/R to explore, prepare, and validate data, documenting assumptions and flagging data-quality issues.
• Analyze patterns in customer behavior or business performance to uncover insights and potential opportunities.
• Apply statistical methods, such as regression, hypothesis testing, or experiment analysis (including A/B tests and pilots), as fits your project.
• Help define and interpret metrics that connect your analysis to customer and business outcomes, and support ongoing performance tracking.
• Create clear visualizations and reproducible analyses that make your findings useful to others.
• Work with engineers, product managers, marketers, and other teammates to build a shared approach to analyzing and communicating insights.
• Communicate your approach, results, recommendations, and limitations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Document your work and deliver a final presentation and handoff so the team can build on your findings.

Skills

Statistics fundamentals

Data analysis

Question framing

Collaborating with teams

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in quantitative field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Job description

Zillow Group is seeking a Data Science Intern to turn data into insights. You’ll apply quantitative and programming skills to a scoped project with guidance from your team during a nine-week summer internship in 2027.

The program runs in Seattle with a hybrid schedule and a stipend to offset housing and relocation costs. You’ll work with data scientists and cross-functional partners to define questions, prepare data, and interpret results, delivering recommendations and clear visualizations for