Hardware ML Data Science Intern, Block
12-months
CAD $42.00/hr. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CAD $42.00/hr. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- Pursuing a degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field with an upcoming graduation of December 2025 through August 2026
- Available for a 12-16 month (gap year) internship after your Spring 2024 semester
- Experience performing data analysis and/or building data systems using Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, etc.)
- Comfortable working with statistical models in a data rich environment
- Ability to understand complex business and data systems
- Ability to clearly communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to quickly and deeply understand our product ecosystem, business, marketing strategy, metrics, and models
Desirable
- Comfortable working with databases via SQL
- Familiarity with Unix/Linux/OS X CLI tools, version control software (git), and general software development
- Familiar with data visualization & data communication either via BI tools (Looker, Powerbi, Tableau, etc.) or libraries (Matplotlib, Holoviews, Seaborn, etc.)
- Familiarity with ETL development and best practices
- Experience applying both data-backed heuristics and machine-learning techniques to solve personalization and recommendation problems
What the job involves
- Data Scientist Interns at Square leverage analytics, machine learning, and data engineering to empower data-driven decision-making in product strategy development
- Your role will be a hybrid of roles in product analytics, data engineering and machine learning
- You will need to summarize trends and insights through the vast amount of data captured by Square, and develop applicable strategies to grow Squares sellers and their engagement with Square products through the platform
- Partner with Square’s product, engineering, marketing, and finance teams to build tools and make decisions using analytics, statistics, quantitative reasoning, and machine learning
- Build self-service data tools that allow us to monitor the health and performance of our business and key product features
- Independently research questions related to product experiences and produce recommendations for peers and leadership
- Communicate analysis and decisions to peers and leadership in verbal, visual, and written media
- Work closely with a product managers, product marketers, designers and engineers to evangelize data best practices and implement analytics solutions
Our take
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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