Operations Data Science Intern: AI Tools & Forecasting

PODS; Clearwater (FL); On-site; USD 34,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

PODS is seeking an intern for the Summer 2027 data science track in Clearwater, FL. You’ll work on either Data Science & Research or AI Tool Building, delivering real, production-ready results with mentorship from senior scientists and IT partners.

You’ll own focused projects, validate models, and contribute to optimization, automation, and dashboards on live operational data. You will collaborate across teams, present results to stakeholders, and gain hands-on experience with Snowflake, Python,

Qualifications

• Currently in the final years of a bachelor’s degree, or enrolled in a master’s program
• Majoring in a quantitative or technical field such as Data Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, Economics, or a related field
• Coursework or hands-on experience with SQL and Python for analysis and model or tool development
• No full-time experience required
• Bonus points for internships, co-ops, or substantial research projects in data science, optimization, or AI tool building

Responsibilities

• Own a focus project. Build and validate a predictive model (demand or capacity forecasting, classification, anomaly detection) against actuals; formulate and solve a routing, scheduling or capacity optimization and quantify the gain; build an AI agent that automates a manual workflow; or frame a loosely defined operational question and deliver a recommendation
• Do real data science. Prepare and validate operational data, engineer features, and run model and optimization experiments with senior data scientists
• Build tools and automation. Create AI-powered tools, reproducible pipelines and automated reporting that replace manual work
• Steward what’s in production. Help maintain and monitor the team’s optimizers, models and tools, and bring improvement ideas with the analysis to back them
• Make results usable. Work with IT to integrate solutions into the platforms operational users rely on, maintain data models in Snowflake, and build dashboards and decision-support tools
• Work AI-first. Use Claude, Cursor, Copilot or similar to move faster on analysis, code and documentation, and verify every output before it ships

Skills

SQL

Python

AI tools

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's in quantitative field or Master's (final year)

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Snowflake

Gurobi/Pyomo/OR-Tools/PuLP

Job description

PODS is seeking an intern for the Summer 2027 data science track in Clearwater, FL. You’ll work on either Data Science & Research or AI Tool Building, delivering real, production-ready results with mentorship from senior scientists and IT partners.

You’ll own focused projects, validate models, and contribute to optimization, automation, and dashboards on live operational data. You will collaborate across teams, present results to stakeholders, and gain hands-on experience with Snowflake, Python,