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PhD Data Scientist, Intern

Stripe · New York, Seattle, South San Francisco HQ · On-site

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

As an intern at Stripe you’ll work on projects across our stack that directly impact the way millions of businesses operate. You’ll own problems end to end with the support of your manager and teammates. It’s an opportunity to work alongside some of the most creative and technically rigorous data analysts and scientists in the industry. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Rigorous thinker: You appreciate that things worth doing are rarely simple. You enjoy working on problems that have never been tackled before
  • Adaptable problem solver: You adapt quickly and treat obstacles as opportunities. At Stripe we embrace kindness while encouraging Stripes to take measured risks and act boldly, even in the absence of consensus
  • Enrolled in a quantitative PhD program (e.g. Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, etc.) with the expectation of graduating in December 2027 or spring/summer 2028
  • Experience with SQL and a scientific computing language (such as Python, R, etc.)
  • Proficiency with AI tools to accelerate model development, analysis, and coding
  • Experience communicating and collaborating with multidisciplinary stakeholders in a team environment
More about this role

Stripe is a technology company focused on improving the conditions for economic growth and prosperity. We build programmable financial infrastructure, rethinking from first principles how financial services should work, to make it easier and cheaper for any business to start and scale. More than 10 million businesses build on Stripe, spanning the economic frontier—from solo founders to established enterprises—united by a practical focus on growth. The most ambitious companies in the world use Stripe as core infrastructure to grow faster. They process trillions of dollars a year on Stripe, equivalent to around 1.6% of global GDP. While economic growth makes everyone better off, open markets also enable greater variety. When any business can easily serve a global customer base, the quality and diversity of products in the world increase, and craft and creativity are unleashed into the smallest niches. Our own growth is wholly contingent on the success of the businesses building on Stripe. We therefore invest back into our technology at an unusual rate. We make upgrades to our products every single day to deliver compounding gains to our customers. We maintain some of the most...

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