Data Scientist Intern (Onsite in Bellevue, Washington)

What is special about Lighthouse?

Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals. We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success. We grow together and are stronger together. 

What’s unique about this role?

Lighthouse is seeking a Data Scientist Intern to join our Product Development team in building the next generation of eDiscovery intelligence products. In this role, you will develop highly accurate data models that drive predictability, deliver insights, and enhance business analytics. You will contribute to engineering highly available and scalable systems for real-time and near real-time analytics, leveraging both new and existing NLP and document classification technologies. If you enjoy working in an agile, collaborative environment, solving complex problems, and applying advanced machine learning and statistical techniques to deliver actionable insights, this internship is for you.

What will this person do?

• Work 25–40 hours per week supporting the Data Science team in designing, prototyping, and testing scalable machine learning techniques for classification, recognition, matching, and attribute extraction to solve key business problems.
• Select and apply appropriate statistical and machine learning algorithms to address diverse data challenges while ensuring data security and privacy.
• Translate business opportunities into data science solutions by applying mathematical and statistical techniques to available datasets.
• Support client facing solution developers with issue resolution.

Bring your passion and together we will shine. It would also be great if you had the following:

• Experience developing and implementing ML/AI models using programming or scripting languages (Python strongly preferred; hands-on familiarity with one or more of these: Spark, Scala, Databricks, MLFlow is a plus)
• Hands-on familiarity with one or more cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Experience working with both structured and unstructured data using industry-standard toolsets (e.g., SQL Python Libraries for data analysis exploration and visualization e.g., Pandas, and SQL variants)
• Experience using modern AI tools for software development (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.)
• Currently enrolled in, or recently graduated from, a program in data science, computer science, statistics, or a related field
• Familiarity with software engineering principles such as testing at scale, CI/CD, and Agile development practices.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of machine learning, generative AI, multi-modal data analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling, with exposure to applying these methods to real-world problems
• Motivated to learn from peers and seniors and follow industry trends. Having an experimentation mindset.
• Willingness to take on solving new challenges, presentation skills to deliver insights succinctly.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Duties are performed in a typical office environment while at a desk or computer table.
• Duties require the ability to use a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material, in a quiet and professional setting.
• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).

Lighthouse celebrates and thrives on diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire, train, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We welcome any talents and contributions you can bring to the team and are deeply committed to growing an environment where everyone can feel safe, is respected, and can show up as themselves. Come as you are!

As required by applicable pay transparency laws, Lighthouse complies with compensation disclosure requirements for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location, or other relevant factors. The salary range for this position may be tailored to be lower or higher in different talent markets.

Lighthouse interns are eligible to participate in the 401k with company match after 90 days of employment with Lighthouse. 

As a trailblazer and catalyst for change, Lighthouse rises to each opportunity to help our clients, and our people do what they do best—shine.