Big Data Management Master's Intern
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2025 Summer Internship Program
Location:
This role is scheduled to be 100% remote. While remote, finalists MUST reside in one of the following states to be eligible for employment with Kaiser Permanente: CA, OR, WA, HI, CO, GA, MD, VA, CT, DC, or IL.
Department Description:
The KPSOM HSS department mission includes: 1) the pursuit of a broad scholarship agenda that will improve health, health care, and health equity through systems transformation and redesign; and 2) delivery of an innovative foundational curriculum in four domains: community and population health, health care and social systems, quality and safety, and research methods to inform evidence-based clinical practice.
Intern Project(s):
The intern will have the opportunity to engage with several analytics projects to address health related research questions. For these projects, the intern will contribute to Big Data management– including data wrangling, building meaningful data summaries and graphical representations, and statistical inference via probabilistic and causal models. There will also be an opportunity to work on large data repositories to address public health research questions. Overall, projects will focus on: health equity, prenatal maternal stress, sleep disorders, premature birth, mediation, data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning.
Target Majors:
Math, Statistics
Target Skills:
Familiarity with Bayesian statistics and statistical modeling, including generalized linear mixed effect models, structural equation models, mediation analysis, and causal inference. Familiarity with machine learning, specifically deep neural networks and other classification techniques, including random forest. Advanced programming skills with R. Prior experience with public health analytics, including experience with large data repositories, interest in performing statistical research related to health equity, and exploring the association between maternal stress and sleep disorders across demographic and socioeconomic groups.
Job Summary:
Lay the groundwork for a dynamic future with an industry leader. At Kaiser Permanente, you'll forge lasting relationships with colleagues across the organization while enjoying the opportunity to grow your experience and hone your expertise on assignments that have real impact. Our interns have worked on everything from analyzing financial software and developing new marketing strategies, to designing mobile apps and helping clinicians improve care delivery. We want you to get the most out of your time here and will give you projects that challenge you to think freely, question thoroughly, and explore deeply.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Contributing to a designated project or initiative to meet a KP business objective.
- Report development and analytics.
- Project management - planning, execution, and measurement.
- Learning new applications needed to complete assignments or support the execution of business objectives.
- Job shadowing in other functional areas.
- Performing additional duties as required.
- N/A
- Pursuing a graduate degree or have completed a graduate program from an accredited university within the last year.
- Bachelors degree required.
- N/A
- Aptitude to perform data and process analytics and formulating solutions.
- Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- 3.0 GPA or above
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships as well as strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to learn quickly and experience producing high quality work in short periods of time.
Notes:
- 11 week internship scheduled to start in June 2025
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest
