Data Science Student Experience

At Doosan Bobcat, our success is powered by our people. Through our winning culture and one global team working together, we deliver the best products and service to our customers – and make the world a better place. Join our team today and start building your career with a worldwide leader.

• Location:
  
  West Fargo, ND

You have the knowledge, now gain the experience!

Bobcat’s student program is an opportunity created to empower young professionals, like you. Whether you’re looking for on the job experience, testing the waters in a desired career path, or hoping for a foot in the door with us, we have an experience designed specifically for you and your aspirations. As a Co-op or Intern you will be presented the tools to further your professional development, apply your schooling to real-world projects, and gain hands-on experience while completing your undergrad degree.

Co-op:
An 8-month long opportunity, Co-op positions are a full-time employment experience. Co-ops are fully immersed into the worlds of corporate and production industry as a full-time team member.

Internship: A semester long opportunity, Internships positions are a part-time employment experience. With the opportunity to extend multiple semesters, Interns tap into the foundations of our corporate and production industries.

Co-op and Intern opportunities span across 18 of Bobcat’s different functions.

Agent Development – Generative AI Based Problem Solving & Task Automation

• User Need Analysis – Work with product managers to identify business pain points and translate them into functional specifications for an intelligent agent.
• LLM Powered Conversation Engine – Implement natural language understanding, intent detection, and dialogue management using large language models (OpenAI, Hugging Face, etc.).
• API Integration – Build and test REST/Graph
  
  QL endpoints that connect the agent to external data sources (CRM, ERP, public APIs).
• Testing & Debugging – Write unit and integration tests, and troubleshoot performance or correctness issues in the agent pipeline.

• Knowledge Base Design – Design the schema and data model that will store the agent’s knowledge.
• Data Update Pipeline – Create automated pipelines to ingest, clean, and update documents, keeping the knowledge base current.
• RAG Research & Implementation – Explore Retrieval Augmented Generation techniques to improve answer accuracy, and implement a simple RAG pipeline that pulls context from the knowledge base.
• Vector Database Deployment – Deploy a vector search solution (FAISS, Pinecone, Milvus, etc.) to enable fast similarity search over embedded documents.
• Relevance Optimization Algorithms – Develop basic ranking/optimization logic to evaluate and improve the relevance of search results returned to users.

• Cloud Deployment – Package the AI agent as a Docker container and deploy it to a cloud environment (AWS ECS/EKS, Lambda, or Sage Maker).
• Monitoring & Incident Response – Set up basic metrics (latency, error rates) with Cloud Watch or Prometheus and learn how to handle incidents.
• Continuous Improvement – Collect user feedback, analyze usage data, and iterate on the agent to enhance performance and user satisfaction.

• Hands on experience with cutting edge generative AI tools and retrieval augmented pipelines.
• Exposure to end to end AI product development: from requirement gathering to deployment and ops.
• Mentorship from data scientists, and Dev Ops specialists.
• A portfolio ready project that showcases your contribution to a real AI product.

• Freshman, Sophomore, Junior or Senior standing seeking a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, etc.
• Familiarity in these areas is a plus
  • Python and JavaScript/Type Script
  • SQL/No
    
    SQL, ETL Pipelines and data-processing libraries (pandas, Spark)
  • Building or consuming REST/Graph
    
    QL services
  • AWS Services (Bedrock, S3, Lambda, Sage Maker) or equivalent
• Be able to commit to Bobcat for the entire term of the co-op (8 months) or internship (4 months)
• Attention to detail
• Team player, fast learner, and…