Data Science, Graduate Internship

Lowe’s Summer Internship Program Overview 
Lowe's 2024 Summer Internship Program offers a challenging, project-based opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to enhance their understanding of the retail business world through valuable, hands-on experience with a FORTUNE® 50 company. The internship will provide broad learning, experience, organizational knowledge, and business acumen. We are looking for: 

• Students driven by potential 

• Dynamic individuals who are as inspiring as they are capable of being inspired 

• Sharp minds eager to take on new challenges and able to recognize and embrace new opportunities 

• Great collaborators who understand the power of "we" 

• People who push the boundaries of what is possible

The summer internship program begins with orientation on May 20th and concludes on August 2nd. All internships are paid opportunities. And qualified interns will be eligible for Lowe's housing benefit. 

This role has potential for conversion into a full-time, entry-level position as part of Lowe's Launchpad program for those that successfully complete their internship and required education. Lowe's Launchpad is a rotational opportunity designed to help emerging technologists strengthen their tech skills, engage with tech leaders, and learn more about Lowe’s culture while advancing their career. Successful completion of this program could result in final placement in just 18-months. 

Lowe’s Discovery Science Internship

We are looking for talented students to join our discovery science team as interns. The Discovery sciences team works on applying a wide range of Machine learning concepts such as information retrieval, recommender systems, personalization, NLP, knowledge graphs, computer vision to improve the overall online experience for our customers. Your work will help millions of home improvement customers discover the best products that satisfy their needs from our catalog of millions of items. Interns will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of impactful areas such as search, recommendations, personalization, knowledge graphs, computer vision, conversational systems etc.

Interns will have the opportunity to work in one or more of the following applied research areas:

• Query understanding

• NLP

• Search Relevance and Ranking

• Recommender Systems

• Reinforcement Learning

• Counterfactual learning and evaluation

• Intent understanding and user modeling

• Knowledge Graphs

• Computer vision

• Conversational systems

You will collaborate with diverse cross functional stakeholders such as ML Engineers, Data Engineers and Product Managers in crafting and implementing solutions for online search.

Education and/or Experience

• Pursuing a Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data or Information Science, or related quantitative analytic field with a graduation date of Fall 2024 or Spring 2025

• Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA is required

• Strong expertise in one or more of the areas: Search relevance, query understanding, ranking and recommendations, NLP, Computer vision

• Have strong ML engineering skills with expertise in Python and machine learning tools (scikit,Tensorflow, PyTorch)

• Are a strong communicator who can collaborate with diverse stakeholders across all levels

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.