PhD Data Science Internship 2027 (USA)

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking Data Science interns to help evolve and shape the future of our product. You will apply quantitative analysis, statistics, and modeling while collaborating with engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers.

Internships are 12 weeks paid with start dates in May or June; locations include remote or hybrid options in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York or Seattle offices. The role develops experimentation and analytics skills for real-world impact.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, CS or related field.
• Experience manipulating large data sets; fluency in SQL and Python or R.
• Experience solving analytical problems using ML, statistics, forecasting, econometrics or related fields.
• Excellent communication skills to explain learnings to technical and non-technical partners.
• Strong critical thinking with AI-generated suggestions; validate correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Ability to connect data analysis to real business problems.

Responsibilities

• Influence and evolve our product roadmap using data and exploratory analysis to understand user behavior and identify opportunities for product innovation.
• Design and implement core metrics; evaluate A/B experiments that drive these metrics.
• Explore alternative experimentation techniques to speed up evaluation.
• Gather signals about Pinner, Merchant, Creator, or Advertiser preferences using surveys and modeling approaches.
• Work cross-functionally to communicate insights and collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Statistics

Machine Learning

Communication

AI Collaboration

Education

PhD candidate in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, computer science or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

We're looking for Data Science interns to help evolve and shape the future of our product -- inspiring Pinners and connecting them with actionable content, understanding advertisers and measuring the value Pinterest provides to them, and enabling our employees to evaluate potential product changes faster than ever before. You'll apply quantitative analysis, statistical techniques, modeling and data mining while working cross-functionally with engineering and product partners.

The results of your work will influence the team roadmap, identify actionable product opportunities, refine our experimentation platform, and drive key initiatives, turning your insights and analyses into real-world products.

Internships are 12 weeks paid, with fixed start dates in May or June to accommodate varying school calendars. Depending on the team, our summer internships will be located either remote or hybrid in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York or Seattle offices.

We offer 2 internship start dates:

• May 17, 2027 - August 6, 2027


• June 14, 2027 - September 3, 2027

What you'll do:

• Influence and evolve our product roadmap to help us fulfill our mission - to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love - using data and exploratory analysis to understand user behavior and trends, and identify opportunities for product innovation.


• Design and implement core metrics that serve as the north stars for team efforts and help design and evaluate A/B experiments that drive these metrics.


• Explore alternative experimentation techniques to help internal teams evaluate their ideas faster.


• Help gather explicit signals about Pinner, Merchant, Creator, or Advertiser preferences and tastes using survey methodologies and statistical/modeling based approaches.


• Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest.

What we're looking for:

• Currently pursuing a PhD degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, computer science or related field.


• Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL and a scripting language (Python or R)


• Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches including in the fields of Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics or other related fields


• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners


• Strong critical thinking when working with AI-generated suggestions, with a clear approach to validating correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.


• Ability to connect data analysis to real business problems, in order to impact business performance.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.


• This role may require you to be located near an office for in-person collaboration, and therefore may need to be located a commutable distance from one of our Pinterest offices.

At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

The salary for this position is $12,100 monthly.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please completethis form for support.