Machine Learning Science Intern – Chicago and Seattle; PhD

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Are you passionate about solving complex problems and interested in the scalability of tech products to millions of users? Excited about being part of an inclusive and impactful culture? Join us at Expedia Group and contribute to innovative projects that are reshaping the future of travel.

By joining the Expedia Group 2024 Global Summer Internship Program as a Machine Learning Science Intern you’ll fully integrate into our inclusive community and gain a well-rounded experience of life at Expedia Group. Our global program offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to business-critical projects by developing your skills through tailored learning and training, providing ongoing support, and offering insightful intern-specific events to build knowledge and community.

Internship Program Highlights:

• Onboarding:
  Connect with your cohort, receive support, and set up for success in your first week

• Intern Bootcamp:
  Role-specific technical and professional skills learning, both in-person and virtual, delivered in your first week to help you get set up for success

• Meaningful work and projects:
  Interns join a variety of Expedia Group teams and directly contribute to business work streams and priorities; at the conclusion of the internship interns present their work to team members and senior leadership

• Learning Series:
  Interactive workshops delivered by our Learning team to build professional & soft skills, and support development, including topics such as personal branding and presentation skills

• Leadership Series:
  Exclusive intern-only events with our Travel Leadership Team leaders to learn about their career journeys, hear their views on industry and company trends and ask questions!

• Social events:
  Regular fun events organized for each regional cohort so you can get to know others, enjoy the Expedia Group culture, and enjoy some downtime!

• Mentorship:
  Mentors are assigned to each individual intern to support your development and learning throughout the program and are also a great way to build your understanding and network at EG.

• Support:
  Coaching and advice, provided by managers, team navigators (buddies) and a specific point of contact per region from Emerging Talent & Careers.

What You’ll do:

Travel is so much more than simply reaching your destination. Along the way you will make an immediate impact on reimagining the way people search for travel with our awesome team by inventing brand-new techniques to power global travel for everyone, everywhere. From building pipelines and prototyping new ML models with A/B testing, to applying new techniques to services that run tens of thousands of requests per second, there is no shortage of opportunities for technical innovation at Expedia Group – the sky’s the limit!

• Applying statistics methods like confidence intervals, point estimates and sample size estimates to make sound and confident inferences on data and A/B tests

• Applying Natural Language models to Google keyword analysis and applying meta models to our multi-objective ranking problem

• Communicating complex analytical topics in a clean & simple way to multiple partners and senior leadership (both internal & external)

• Conducting feature engineering and modifying existing models/techniques to suit business needs

• Developing domain expertise in fraud & risk to understand how to detect risky transactions

• Modeling rich and complex online travel data to understand, predict and optimize business metrics to help improve the traveler experience

• Framing business problems as data science problems with a concrete set of tasks

• Apply your domain (i.e. travel, online retail) knowledge, business acumen (understanding the underlying business objectives), and critical reasoning skills to your work

Who You Are:

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