Data Science Intern

Hi We're Centerfield!

Supercharged customer acquisition. Centerfield delivers outcome-based digital marketing solutions and personalized omnichannel experiences for the world’s leading brands. Powered by our proprietary Dugout platform Centerfield acquires customers at scale for leading residential service insurance e-commerce and B2B brands. Centerfield’s digital experiences and digital brands such as Business.com and BroadbandNow.com reach more than 150 million in-market shoppers annually. Centerfield is headquartered in Silicon Beach and is proud to be recognized by Built in LA as a Best Place to Work in Los Angeles.

Centerfield is looking for a curious hands-on Data Science Intern to work alongside our Data Science team on the systems that turn millions of customer conversations into intelligence. You’ll contribute directly to our call intelligence and customer data platforms - helping us extract behavioral signals from phone calls validate predictive models and activate that intelligence to personalize experiences for over 150 million shoppers annually. This is a builder’s internship: you’ll write real code work with real data and ship work that informs real business decisions all with the mentorship and support of an experienced DS bench.

• Trait Extraction & Analysis: Analyze call transcripts and help build and refine rules that extract behavioral and intent signals measuring their accuracy against human-labeled benchmarks.

• Model Validation: Support the team in validating predictive models and traits feeding into our customer data platform - quantifying how well signals correlate with conversion retention and customer value.

• Data Exploration: Profile and clean high-volume data surface patterns and quality issues and translate findings into clear actionable summaries for the team.

• LLM & GenAI Experimentation: Get hands-on with modern GenAI workflows -prompting evaluation and lightweight RAG experiments - to help assess summary quality and reduce hallucinations in production outputs.

• Communicate Findings: Build charts notebooks and short write-ups that make your analysis easy for both technical and business stakeholders to act on.

• Education: Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Master’s or PhD in Computer Science Statistics Mathematics Data Science or a related quantitative field.

• Programming: Solid foundation in Python and familiarity with core data libraries (e.g. pandas NumPy scikit-learn) through coursework research or personal projects.

• ML & Stats Fundamentals: Working understanding of machine learning concepts and applied statistics - regression classification evaluation metrics and basic experimental thinking.

• Data Skills: Comfortable querying and manipulating data with SQL and curious about working with large messy real-world datasets.

• GenAI Curiosity: Genuine interest in LLMs and Generative AI with some hands-on exposure (prompting an API project a course or experimentation) even if not yet professional.

• Mindset: Self-starter who communicates clearly asks good questions and is eager to take a problem from notebook to a result the team can use.

• Cloud Exposure: Any experience with a major cloud platform especially GCP (BigQuery Vertex AI) is a plus.

• NLP / Text Data: Prior work with natural language processing transcripts or unstructured text data.

• Graph or CDP Concepts: Familiarity with graph databases (e.g. Neo4j) or customer data/identity resolution concepts.

• Visualization: Experience building dashboards or visualizations to tell a story with data

• This is a hybrid position and employees are expected to work in our Playa Vista CA office every Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday.

• Outside patio overlooking Playa Vista + cabanas firepits & working grills.

• Breakroom supplied with games couches workout equipment + weekly in-office exercise classes hosted by professional instructors (yoga kickboxing & circuit training).

• Paid charity and volunteer days (local mentor programs adopt a pet beach cleanup etc.).

• Unlimited free snacks and drinks around the office!

• Monthly happy hours catered Thursday lunches.

• Award-winning culture & unprecedented team spirit (featured in LA Business Journal & Built In LA Best Places to Work).

• Monthly team outings (ball games casino night hikes etc.).

• Career growth – we enjoy promoting from within!

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AI & Interview Policy

At Centerfield we use AI tools internally to support efficiency and fairness in our hiring process including resume screening and administrative tasks.

Candidates are welcome to use AI tools ethically to prepare for interviews such as practicing responses or researching questions. However all responses during the interview process should reflect your own knowledge experience and judgment.

The use of AI tools to generate responses during live interviews technical assessments or written submissions is not permitted unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for the minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.

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Centerfield Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color age religion sex national origin disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected under federal state or local law.

What We Do

Super-charged customer acquisition. Centerfield delivers outcome-based digital marketing solutions and personalized omnichannel experiences for the world’s leading brands. Powered by our proprietary Dugout platform Centerfield acquires customers at scale for leading residential service insurance e-commerce and B2B brands. Centerfield’s digital experiences and digital brands such as Business.com and BroadbandNow.com reach more than 150 million in-market shoppers annually. Centerfield is headquartered in Silicon Beach and proud to be recognized as a Best Place to Work in Los Angeles.

Why Work With Us

Centerfield is a growing company that seeks innovative fun and bright individuals that bring great ideas to the table. Our hard work is also rewarded with events throughout the year. Things like catered lunches and monthly social events such as our annual company hike casino night and Dodger game keep us motivated to work hard!

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