PhD Data Scientist Intern — Fraud & ML Systems

Stripe; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 147.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Descripción de la vacante

Stripe is seeking an intern for its Data Science team to work on fraud, losses, and financial crime data science initiatives. You’ll build models, run experiments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to extract insights and drive responsible growth.

The internship emphasizes rigorous analysis, experimentation, and effective communication with mentor and stakeholders, with in-office expectations at multiple locations.

Formación

• Enrolled in a quantitative PhD program with expected graduation in December 2027 or spring/summer 2028.
• Experience with SQL and a scientific computing language (Python, R).
• Proficiency with AI tools to accelerate model development, analysis, and coding.
• Experience communicating and collaborating with multidisciplinary stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Applying probability distributions, statistical inference, and hypothesis testing to quantify uncertainty and evaluate business outcomes.
• Using Python or R for data analysis, data processing, visualizations, statistical modeling, machine learning, predictive analytics, automation, and implementing causal inference and experimental analyses.
• Building, training, and evaluating predictive models across regression and classification tasks for bias-variance trade-offs and model selection.
• Modeling temporal dependencies, seasonality, and trend decomposition to generate and evaluate time-series predictions.
• Identifying structural patterns, clusters, and outliers in unlabeled data.
• Deploying models in production and adjusting model thresholds to improve performance.
• Designing, running, and analyzing complex experiments and leveraging causal inference designs.
• Using SQL and Spark to create, transform, and analyze large datasets.
• Learn quickly by asking great questions, finding how to work with your mentor and teammates effectively, and communicating the status of your work clearly.
• Present your work to the Data Science team, partner teams, and fellow interns.

Conocimientos

SQL

Python

R

AI tools

Educación

Quantitative PhD program

Herramientas

Spark

Descripción del empleo

Stripe is seeking an intern for its Data Science team to work on fraud, losses, and financial crime data science initiatives. You’ll build models, run experiments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to extract insights and drive responsible growth.

The internship emphasizes rigorous analysis, experimentation, and effective communication with mentor and stakeholders, with in-office expectations at multiple locations.