Data Scientist Intern
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Job Description
About the Company:
Lensa is a leading career site that connects job seekers with opportunities at every stage of their careers. They are partnering with NBCUniversal to recruit for this role.
Job Description:
This is a Data Scientist Internship with Universal Destinations & Experiences (UDX) in Orlando, FL, focusing on price optimization for admissions. You will be part of the Global Product and Pricing team. The intern will learn end-to-end (systems, models, processes, and business) how admission prices are optimally generated and implemented.
Key Responsibilities:
• Learns the process, systems, models, and business rules in the optimization of admissions pricing at Universal Destinations & Experiences.
• Prototypes models for forecasting demand and optimizing prices of admissions.
• Creates forecasting models at the optimal level of disaggregation and fine-tunes regressors/parameters for optimal accuracy.
• Creates optimization models in dynamic programming and fine-tunes parameters for generating actionable price recommendations.
• Conducts data analysis and identifies pricing strategies to generate incremental revenue.
• Constructs hypotheses to test pricing strategies and implements, measures, and reports on pricing tests.
• Practices programming skills in Python, SQL; working with Tensorflow, Prophet, SciPy, NumPy libraries; working in AWS, Snowflake.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training, and Team Member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Important Dates:
• Application Deadline: June 20th, 2025, at 11:55 PM ET
• Program Dates: Approximately January 2026 – April 2026
Minimum Qualifications:
• In pursuit of an Associate, Bachelor or Graduate degree at an Accredited Institution with current class standing of Sophomore or above.
• Minimum cumulative 2.8 GPA is required.
• A transcript is required upon application.
Preferred Skills & Knowledge:
• Preferred majors include: Statistics, Operations Research, Data Science, or similar.
• Preferred coursework completed: Linear Programming, Mixed-Integer Programming, Probability, Statistics, Machine Learning, or similar.
• Preferred modeling skills in forecasting and optimization.
• Familiarity with Revenue Management, Dynamic Programming, Price Elasticity of Demand, Tensorflow, Prophet, SciPy, NumPy, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, PowerBI, and/or Excel.
Additional Information:
• This is an in-person internship in Orlando.
• Interns must be currently pursuing a degree with a graduation date later than April 2026.
• Universal Orlando does not provide housing.
• The internship is paid, and housing financial assistance may be available.
