Data Scientist Co-op

Cox Enterprises • Atlanta, GA

17h • $22 - $33 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Decision Support organization turns Inventory Solutions' most complex questions into fast, confident decisions, combining business knowledge, mathematics, AI and machine learning, and software engineering to produce the models, applications, and platforms behind those decisions. Within Decision Support, the Strategic Solutions & Enablement (SSE) team sets the shared architecture, tooling, and methodology standards used across the organization and builds the internal-facing decision surfaces teams rely on across areas like transaction intelligence, logistics decisioning, and operational optimization.

As a Data Scientist Co-op on the SSE team, you will work alongside experienced data scientists and engineers on real projects that support business decision-making. This is a multi-term co-op designed to give a student progressively deeper hands-on experience across several terms. You will learn how production data science is done end to end — from framing a business question, to exploring data, to building and validating models, to communicating results — under the guidance and mentorship of the team. You are not expected to own products independently; you are expected to be curious, learn quickly, and contribute meaningfully to the team's work.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Able to commit to multiple co-op terms, alternating semesters, per a standard university co-op model.
• Foundational Python programming skills (e.g., coursework or projects using Pandas, NumPy, or scikit-learn).
• Working knowledge of SQL and an interest in learning cloud data platforms such as Snowflake and AWS.
• Exposure to statistics and/or machine learning concepts through coursework or projects.
• Strong analytical thinking and a demonstrated ability to learn quickly and work as part of a team.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Coursework or personal/academic projects involving machine learning, generative AI, or data visualization (e.g., Tableau, Streamlit).
• Familiarity with version control (Git) and collaborative development practices.
• Interest in the automotive industry or in large-scale marketplace data.

Responsibilities

• Assist data scientists in exploring, cleaning, and preparing data from a variety of internal sources for analysis and modeling.
• Write Python and SQL to extract, transform, and analyze data, building your proficiency with the team's tools and standards.
• Help build, test, and tune machine learning models under guidance, learning classical methods (e.g., regression, gradient boosting, clustering) and applied generative AI approaches.
• Support the creation of prototypes, demos, and visualizations that show how data and AI can be used to solve business problems.
• Participate in team standups, design discussions, and code/peer reviews, gradually taking on more responsibility across terms.
• Document your work clearly so it can be understood, reproduced, and built on by the team.
• Present findings and progress to the team and, over time, to business partners, adjusting depth for the audience.
• Return across multiple co-op terms, alternating semesters, building continuity and increasing scope and independence with each term.
• Apply feedback and coursework to progressively more substantial contributions to SSE projects.

Benefits

• health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• retirement planning (401(k))
• paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern