Data Science Intern- Undergrad (Summer 2023)

Company Description

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Job Description

Position: Data Science Intern

Location: San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

We are currently seeking an intern to join our IT/Data Strategy team. We are actively developing a customer intelligence program focusing on generating deeper customer insights and predictive outcomes related to customer growth and retention. In this role, we are expecting you to focus on one or more key areas of analysis: Product Usage, Customer Engagement, Support, Opportunity Health, Product Utilization or Macro Economic Insight. The goal is to perform a comprehensive review of an area, and perform data preparation, feature engineering, model building and reporting for model performance.

Responsibilities/What you’ll do-

• Drive business outcomes by developing recommendations based on data.
• Create analyses that tell a “story” focused on insights, not just data analytics
• Evaluate various options in terms of appropriate modeling technique/algorithm and apply the one which fits best in the overall business & technical environment
• Apply models on large datasets to measure results and outcomes
• Make recommendations to resolve application performance problems
• Implement data processing methods and tools
• Support with data analysis and data preparation
• Study and communicate model performance and tuning needs

Qualifications

Qualifications/Your background-

• Working your way towards completing your Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python and Data Visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI etc
• Familiarity with Tensorflow, Pytorch, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas and or Matplotlib a plus
• Firm grasp of statistical analysis concepts with ability to communicate statistical significance of findings
• Good Communication Skills and should have can-do attitude
• Strong Project and Stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead and execute projects from start to finish.

Additional Information

The base salary range for this Intern position is $5500-$6500/month

Zscaler’s salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, location and relevant education or training.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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What You Can Expect From Us:

• An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
• A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
• Competitive salary and benefits, including equity

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team. 

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com. 

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please contact us by sending an email to accommodations@zscaler.com.   This email address is used specifically for accommodation requests only, and resumes, CV's, or questions other than accommodations will not be replied to or accepted.