Analytics Engineer Intern

Job Description

Benzinga is seeking an Analytics Engineering Intern to join our Data Science team for a 12-week part-time remote internship. This is an analytics and business-intelligence-focused role centered on data modeling dashboards and data interpretation not a software engineering role. You will build SQL data models within our data pipeline framework and design meaningful dashboards assess data quality and translate raw data into insights stakeholders can act on.

Key Responsibilities

• Write SQL that transforms raw data into structured datasets as part of a data pipeline and turn it into something a dashboard can use.
• Support existing reporting and develop new reporting and dashboard work.
• Build a deliverable project: design and build SQL data models connecting to a source dataset build a Looker Studio dashboard validate with a stakeholder and present both the dashboard and the findings uncovered along the way.
• Conduct data quality checks and learn to identify and troubleshoot common data issues.
• Collaborate with a stakeholder to ensure a dashboard deliverable actually answers the business question being asked not just the question as first stated.
• Present findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Use AI coding assistants as a tool to accelerate work with the expectation that all code is understood verified and can be explained rather than accepted at face value.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate program in Data Analytics Business Analytics Economics Information Systems Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• Basic SQL proficiency: comfortable with SELECT JOIN GROUP BY and simple aggregations
• Basic familiarity with version control concepts such as using Git.

Preferred Experience

• Exposure to a BI/visualization tool (Looker Studio Tableau Power BI)
• Familiarity with GitLab or GitHub merge request/pull request workflow.
• Exposure to web application marketing or financial/media data.
• Prior experience using AI coding assistants (Claude Code GitHub Copilot ChatGPT) for coursework or personal projects.