Data Science Intern at Vouch

Internship Program Overview: 
Would you like to play a critical role in the success of the next wave of world-changing startups? Are you excited about understanding the pace and evolution of the venture ecosystem? Would you like to contribute to a product that will redefine the risks founders can comfortably take on as they build from ideas into companies? Our mission at Vouch is to craft the best insurance for those building the future, and our Data Team is looking for a summer intern.
Our goal is to provide a meaningful and hands-on summer work experience in a high-growth start-up. This will be a full-time, paid 10-week internship program beginning Monday, June 6th, 2022

Job Type: Full-Time
Compensation: $25/hr
Application deadline: April 15th, 2022 
Final Decisions: May 6th, 2022
Program date: June 6th, 2022 - August 12th, 2022

Location: Remote


 
About Vouch:
Insurance... sounds slow, old-fashioned, and unexciting. Exactly. Insurance is broken, and it's failing fast-moving, innovative startups.
Vouch is a new, technology-first insurance company backed with $160M in funding from world-class investors. Like Stripe for payments or Brex for credit cards, Vouch is creating the go-to business insurance for high-growth companies.
We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our customers -high growth and innovative companies. Instead of printed PDF applications and week-long waits, Vouch is building new technology to solve real problems, writing policies that actually cover relevant startup scenarios, and designing simple experiences in an otherwise frustrating industry. 
 
What does a work environment look like at Vouch?
Vouch has a 3-HQ model: Office-Based, Office-Linked, and Remote-First. This role is Remote-First, which means that team members can work from anywhere in the U.S. so long as they can work during Vouch core collaboration hours (9 am-3 pm PT Mon-Fri).
 
Role Responsibilities: 
Data is existential to our company's success. We’re looking for an exceptional intern who lives and breathes data, who is passionate about pushing the startup ecosystem forward, and who is committed to the hard work necessary to continuously improve. As an intern in our team you will have a chance to build NLP and ML models on top of the most comprehensive startup dataset in the world.
 
Job Duties: 
Depending on your background, and interests, you might work on any of the following:

Build and deploy NLP models to classify companies according to their business characteristics
Develop graph algorithms for link prediction, node clustering, or entity resolution
Design and implement processes to generate ground truth labeled data sets to validate our models
Research and explore innovative ML strategies to operationalize the use of proprietary data in scoring current and potential clients along different risk exposures

Additionally, we'll expect you to

Participate in brainstorming, retrospectives, sprint planning, and team building activities
Work cross functionally with team members across the Vouch organization to understand the downstream impact of our data models
Effectively talk (and listen) to engineers, designers, marketers, executives, and other stakeholders.

 
About you:

Surprise us! Most candidates will be pursuing a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
Strong knowledge of Python and SQL
Working knowledge of git and command line tools
Track-record of solving complex problems and learning fast
Experience with and solid understanding of data visualization tools and concepts
Familiarity with data science frameworks such as Scikit-Learn, NetworkX, PyMC, Keras, etc.
Previous experience working with relational or graph databases

 
Nice to have:

Exposure to and passion for early-stage startups and/or high growth environments
A background in insurance or other regulated categories 
Experience building web applications with Python and modern frontend technologies (TypeScript, React, webpack, npm, d3)

 
Vouch provides a number of benefits to help you bring your best self to work:

Wellness allowance ($80)
Cell phone/Internet allowance ($50/month)
Monthly Doordash credits ($80/month) 

 
Vouch believes in putting our people first, and building a diverse team is at the front of everything that we do. We welcome people from different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ranges of abilities. We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate the diversity of our growing team. 
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to recruiting@vouch.us. (#LI-DNI)