PhD Data Scientist & Gen AI Intern - Femcare R&D

Proctor & Gamble; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Onsite at Winton Hill

Job summary

Procter & Gamble invites a PhD candidate to join a 12-week Data Scientist & Gen AI internship at the Winton Hill Business Center in Cincinnati. You will leverage active learning, Bayesian methods, and surrogate modeling to steer experimental design and optimize resource allocation in R&D.

You will work on integrating Gen AI tools as a co-pilot to guide technical direction, using historical datasets and first-principles simulations to reduce uncertainty and accelerate discovery.

Qualifications

• Education: Working towards a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Physics, Computational Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or Data Science.
• Active learning / sequential experimental design is central to recommending next most informative consumer study or simulation.
• Probabilistic machine learning / Bayesian statistics to represent prediction uncertainty and update confidence as evidence arrives.
• Surrogate modeling for both consumer-response prediction and simulation-response approximation.
• Python required for model development, simulation, and analysis; PyTorch, scikit-learn, BoTorch, GPyTorch, or similar tools are useful.
• Experimental design and model evaluation to compare active learning policies against baselines and define success metrics.
• Availability to work a 12-week internship May/early June to August 2027, onsite at Winton Hill Business Center.

Responsibilities

• Using historical consumer study and simulation datasets to evaluate uncertainty.
• Identify next study, simulation, and measurement based on reduction of uncertainty.
• Optimize experimental resources.
• Create a prototype work process to demonstrate success.

Skills

Active learning

Bayesian statistics

Surrogate modeling

Python

Experimental design

Gen AI / AI-agent prototyping

PyTorch

BoTorch

GPyTorch

Education

PhD candidate in CS/ML/Statistics/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

PyTorch

scikit-learn

BoTorch

GPyTorch

Job description

Procter & Gamble invites a PhD candidate to join a 12-week Data Scientist & Gen AI internship at the Winton Hill Business Center in Cincinnati. You will leverage active learning, Bayesian methods, and surrogate modeling to steer experimental design and optimize resource allocation in R&D.

You will work on integrating Gen AI tools as a co-pilot to guide technical direction, using historical datasets and first-principles simulations to reduce uncertainty and accelerate discovery.