2024 Summer Intern: Ecommerce Data Science

Overview

• Develop scalable tools to drive automation and optimize business operations
• Utilize natural language understanding techniques to uncover insights from contextual data
• Work with PepsiCo’s strategic partners to expand their technical capabilities, thereby creating a more robust data environment
• Perform statistical analysis across diverse datasets to drive and measure performance
• Build machine learning systems to understand the cross-channel grocery ecosystem

Responsibilities

• Opportunities to propose new/incremental tasks to suit business use case
• Specific tasks assigned will be collaborative, and will depend on a combination of business need, team prioritization, and the intern’s personal interest/expertise.
• Quick release cycle and managing the technical aspect of multiple projects simultaneously as they develop
• Projects range from geo-temporal analysis, conditional forecasting, unsupervised opportunity analysis, and reinforcement learning optimization systems
• Meet with non-data science business stakeholders to set expectations and design products based on business needs
• Participation in high-visibility Data Science projects in collaboration with a data science/analytics team with a large impact on a global organization

Qualifications

• Write clean, organized machine learning code using standard software engineering methodologies
• To drive the interests of the business while still maintaining highest levels of rigor and compliance
• Provide critical thought leadership to enhance organizational capabilities by utilizing big and small data; work with DSA team members to identify and execute on opportunities for enhancement
• Work with the larger data science team to analyze large data sets and develop custom models/algorithms to uncover trends, patterns and insights

• Demonstrated ability to effectively and concisely communicate with both business and technical audiences
• Experience and or familiarity NumPy, Pandas, Pytorch, PostgresSQL, MSSQL, MySQL
• Experience using Tensorflow to design custom deep learning systems
• Experience in designing systems to solve business problems
• Bachelor’s or graduate degree completed within one (1) year of internship completion
• Development experience in Python, Java, C or equivalent programming language
• Expert in mathematical models underlying data science methods, understanding the trade-offs between different solutions

EEO Statement

• The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2024 campus intern openings is $20.50 - $39.60/hour.

• We love to convert our interns to full time opportunities! Our full time positions have a comprehensive benefits package that include:
• Role, degree discipline, degree level, and location are part of the process when determining actual starting salary for positions
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement. In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
• Hourly pay for our campus hires is pre-determined and non-negotiable