Data Science Intern

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and imagination, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you're interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to creating an ambitious and inclusive workplace, join eBay -- a company you can be proud to be a part of. In the online classifieds business it is key that we know what chance an advertisement has of being of interest to a buyer, enabling us to rank the advertisements we show accordingly. As a working student/intern you will be supporting our data scientists in crunching data to model click probability for our pay-per-click business proposition. Many characteristics determine the chance that an advertisement will be clicked on by a buyer; you can think of ad quality, buyer characteristics, the position and type of placement of the ad on the site, etc. Your tasks will include running and writing Python/Spark jobs to extract data, testing and validating which characteristics can improve model performance. You will work closely with our data scientists and engineers, will build up a lot of hands on experience in working with online data and get to use tools like Python, Spark, R and Hive in a real business setting. Requirements: * You are an ambitious and driven student who loves to solve quantitative problems. * You are in your third (or higher) year of your university studies in a field such as computer science, mathematics, physics, or any STEM field. * You have working knowledge of Python (mandatory) and/or Spark (nice to have) * You are comfortable working with large datasets and data wrangling (SQL skills would be great) * You have basic knowledge of machine learning and statistics * Pro-active and willing to develop your data skills Marktplaats is a Subsidiary of eBay. This website uses cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to browse the site, you agree to our use of cookies View our privacy policy View our accessibility info