Data Science Intern

Join Leidos mission-focused engineering team and deliver software that powers data analytics computer vision and AI capabilities for national security customers. At Leidos we dont just offer internships - we offercareer acceleration. This is your chance to work alongside industry-leading experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) autonomous systems and multi-modal information retrieval.

Leidos is seeking a passionate and driven Data Science Intern to join our Arlington VA team supportingour national security customer. Youll work side-by-side with system/software engineers and research/data scientists to help evolve a cutting-edge production platform that combinesmicroservices data search & analytics AI and Machine Learning services. Through mentorship collaboration and exposure to challenging technical work youll accelerate your career path and make a real-world impact.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of experts in AI machine learning and software engineering.
• Gain hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and prototype development.
• Enhance your skills in data analytics anomaly detection and visualization tools.
• Perform ETL tasks to ensure data consistency quality and security.
• Develop Autonomous Agents as part of suite of tools to coordinate information discovery across different data sources.

Basic Qualifications

• Currently enrolled and pursuing a Bachelor or Masters degree in the field of Data Science Data Analytics Computer Science Mathematics Statistics or related fields
• Software development skills including developing and maintaining code bases
• Familiar with at least one programming language like Python Java C/C.
• Experience with at least one of the following machine learning libraries SciKit Learn Keras TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Experience or educational courses/projects in Machine Learning and/or Text
• Must be U.S. Citizen
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance. Leidos will guide you through the clearance process.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Big Data platforms like Hadoop Azure or Spark.
• Hands-on experience with prototype development and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau ).
• Knowledge of text mining tools and techniques including summarization entity extraction and anomaly detection.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git and IDEs such as VS Code.
• Practical experience with statistical analysis and/or experience applying data analytics
• Hands-on experience with intelligent systems and machine learning
• Experience with interpretability of deep learning models
• Ability to obtain /maintain Top Secret security clearance with polygraph.

Work location and schedule

• Arlington VA. Hybrid: 4 days on-site 1 day remote per week.
• 810 week internship target start May/June 2027

How to stand out

• Share a link to your GitHub/portfolio and briefly describe a project youre proud of (what you built technologies used and your role).
• If team-based clarify your individual contributions.

If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.