Data Science Intern
Wurl, Inc
$30 / hour
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Description
About Wurl, LLC.
At Wurl, our mission is to create innovative technologies and services that help accelerate the shift to streaming. At our core, we are innovators focused on driving the streaming industry forward with technologies that help connect viewers to the right content and ads. Our technology and data-driven solutions help companies reach new audiences, engage high-value viewers, and ultimately increase their revenue.
In 2022, Wurl was acquired by AppLovin (Nasdaq: APP), a leading marketing platform, giving our employees the best of both worlds: the dynamic environment of a 150+ person startup as well as the stability of a high-growth public tech company. We invest in providing a culture that fosters passion, drives excellence, and encourages collaboration to drive innovation. Wurl is a fully-remote company that has been globally recognized for our people and technology, having been named a Great Place to Work by Fortune in 2022, 2023, and 2024; an Ad Tech Company of the Year finalist by the UK Business Tech Awards in 2023; a BIG Innovation Awards winner in 2024 and 2025; and the “Innovation in Advertising” winner by the StreamTV Awards in 2024.
About the role:
Wurl is seeking an intern with proven academic achievements in data analytics related fields for a year long internship. Wurl’s position in the video and ad delivery ecosystem generates large quantities of data that needs to be carefully analyzed and normalized. We’re looking for an intern that can become familiar with Wurl’s datasets and their usage and support our Data Science and Machine Learning team. The ideal candidate is a PhD / MSc in the field of DataScience, AI/ML, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
Responsibilities:
- Perform analysis tasks to identify anomalies and their root cause as well as propose and put in place validations to programmatically identify such conditions
- Propose methods to normalize the data, implement them, check accuracy and iterate until sufficient accuracy is achieved
- Increase the accuracy of derived datasets and data products
Qualifications:
- Education -
- PhD / MSC preferred. BSc with high gpa, multiple majors, notable projects is also accepted
- Field: DataScience, AI/ML, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, or Computer Science
- Technical
- Graph algorithms and network analysis
- Large-scale data analysis
- Data quality and anomaly detection
- Agentic / AI-assisted software development
- Familiarity with distributed data platforms such as Snowflake / Databricks
- Strong Python and SQL
- Applied statistics and probability
- Machine learning fundamentals
- Experiment design and causal reasoning
- Optimization / decision-making under uncertainty
- Ability to write clean, maintainable analytical code
- Non agentic development experience is mandatory
- Nice to have
- Modeling / Research
- Comfortable evaluating models beyond headline metrics
- Experience moving from research idea → prototype → validated result
- Ability to translate ambiguous problems into mathematical or statistical formulations
- Strong intuition for uncertainty, bias, variance, and noisy data
- Strong quantitative reasoning and mathematical knowledge
- Nice to have
- Problem Solving
- Ability to recognize when results look wrong
- Comfortable working with incomplete, messy, or contradictory data
- Advanced analytical problem-solving ability
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills
- Ability to form and test hypotheses quickly
- Nice to have
- Personal Attributes
- High intellectual curiosity
- Strong ownership and initiative
- Rapid learner
- Independent thinker
- Comfortable challenging assumptions
- Willingness to continue digging into 'funny' things until they make sense
- Effective communication skills and team player.
What We Offer:
- Paid internship ($30/hr) with flexible scheduling.
- Remote-first work culture and support.
- Mentorship from experienced engineers and product experts.
Benefits
- Paid internship ($30/hr) with flexible scheduling.
- Remote-first work culture and support.
- Mentorship from experienced engineers and product experts.
About this role
Wurl operates in the video and ad delivery space, where massive datasets require careful analysis and normalization to drive business decisions. This year-long internship offers the chance to work directly with the Data Science and Machine Learning team on real problems: identifying data anomalies and their root causes, developing methods to clean and standardize datasets, and improving the accuracy of data products that feed into production systems.
The role demands strong fundamentals in Python, SQL, statistics, and machine learning, along with hands-on experience in anomaly detection, large-scale data analysis, and distributed platforms like Snowflake or Databricks. You'll need to think critically about data quality, design experiments rigorously, and write clean, maintainable code. A PhD or MSc in Data Science, AI/ML, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, or Computer Science is preferred; a strong BSc with high GPA and notable projects can also qualify.
This internship suits someone intellectually curious and independent who enjoys debugging messy data, challenging assumptions, and pushing past surface-level results. You'll have mentorship from experienced engineers, work fully remote with flexible scheduling, and earn $30/hour. The role is backed by AppLovin, a public company, which means stability alongside the dynamic environment of a 150+ person startup.
Pay for this role
$30 per hour
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