Data Science, GIS, and Asset Analytics Intern - Summer 2026
About The Position
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. This opportunity entails working under close supervision to assist departments by performing basic assignments in the areas of data science, GIS, planning, and technology, with a focus on transportation and infrastructure asset data. This position is typically on a temporary, intern, or co-op basis. Relocation and housing are not provided for this position. Expected tasks and duties of this role include: -Assist project team members with data, GIS, and analytics support tasks across planning, technology, and infrastructure projects. -Conduct basic research and data collection related to transportation assets and mobility systems. -Assist with compiling and maintaining asset inventories, including roads, bridges, transit stops, facilities, and signals. -Help clean, standardize, and organize asset attributes such as age, condition, location, ownership, and classification. -Support consistency checks between spreadsheets, GIS layers, databases, and technical reports to improve data quality and usability. -Assist in the development of GIS-based maps, graphics, presentation materials, and reports to support planning and technical deliverables. -Maintain organized project data files, records, and documentation in accordance with project standards.
Requirements
- Enrolled in a related undergraduate or graduate program
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with transportation or infrastructure-related datasets.
- Familiarity with asset inventories, tabular-to-spatial data workflows, or GIS attribute management.
- Exposure to data visualization, mapping, or basic analytics through coursework or internships.
- Basic GIS experience, including coursework or hands-on experience using GIS software (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, or similar).
- Understanding of how spatial data is used to support infrastructure planning, asset management, or mobility analysis.
- Ability to work with structured datasets in spreadsheets and support basic data organization and visualization tasks.
- Strong attention to detail and willingness to learn data quality and documentation best practices.
Responsibilities
- Assists project team members with various support tasks.
- Conducts basic research and data collection.
- Maintains records, collections and files related to specific projects.
- Assist in the development of graphics, presentation materials and reports.
- Performs other duties assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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