PhD Data Science Internship 2027 (USA)
San Francisco, CA · Palo Alto, CA · Seattle, WA · New York, NY · San Francisco · Internship · Hybrid · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Internship
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco, CA · Palo Alto, CA · Seattle, WA · New York, NY · San Francisco
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 the flexibility 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.
About the role
- Pinterest is seeking PhD Data Science interns to help evolve and shape the future of their product by inspiring Pinners, understanding advertisers, and enabling employees to evaluate product changes.
- Interns will apply quantitative analysis, statistical techniques, modeling, and data mining while working cross-functionally with engineering and product partners.
Responsibilities
- Influence and evolve our product roadmap to help us fulfill our mission using data and exploratory analysis to understand user behavior and trends.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Paid internship
Workplace
- Depending on the team, summer internships will be located either remote or hybrid in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York or Seattle offices.
- May require you to be located near an office for in-person collaboration and a commutable distance from a Pinterest office.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Machine Learning
- Statistical Modeling
- Forecasting
- Econometrics
