Summer 2025 Intern Program: Data Analytics & IT (Waltham, MA)

Find your superpower with the Gridtern Program  

As a Summer Intern (Gridtern Program), you will be fully immersed in the energy industry. Your summer will start with us on May 27, 2025, and will be filled with meaningful work experiences, professional development, networking, opportunities to get involved in your community and most importantly, have fun!   

Intern responsibilities will vary based upon your area of interest and department placement. Applying to this opportunity confirms your interest in being considered for one or more of the below departments for summer 2025: 

Advanced Data Analytics (Waltham, MA) 

Our Advanced Data Analytics team helps to tackle a wide range of data science and AI projects. Such as using generative AI to analyze our colleague feedback to the creation of an AI-powered assistant providing an efficient search of our safety policies. In leveraging statistical analysis, predictive modelling, and AI, this team addresses critical business challenges and delivers innovative solutions. As a Gridtern, you will have the opportunity to lead various projects and collaborate with diverse stakeholders to tackle business challenges throughout. As you work to gather and engineer data, perform predictive modeling and statistical analysis – you will assist with present findings through dynamic dashboards and impactful PowerPoint presentations.  

Advanced Data Analytics - Data Science (Waltham, MA) 

Our Advanced Data Analytics team provides in-house support for data science, machine learning/artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics across National Grid. As a Gridtern, you will have the opportunity to actively take part in shaping innovative approaches, developing solutions through coding, and effectively communicating results to stakeholders. Some of the notable past intern projects have included the development of computer vision models, predicting readings at various test stations, and using clustering to identify marketing targets for renewable energy programs. 

Advanced Data and Analytics – Machine Learning (Waltham, MA) 

Our Advanced Data and Analytics (Machine Learning Engineering) team consists of data scientists, data engineers, and MLOps engineers who use AI and machine learning to solve business problems across the organization. This team helps to develop data pipelines, transition prototype models to production, fix production bugs, monitor operations, and manage data science platforms and Azure infrastructure. As a Gridtern, you will be working on Data Science, Data Engineering or MLOps Infrastructure related project, collaborating with several data scientists to create data pipelines and transition models to production. You'll help provision cloud infrastructure and participate in code reviews to improve quality and gain exposure to tools and technologies such as Python, SQL, Azure, Anaconda. 

Customer Data Office (Waltham, MA) 

Our Customer Data Office team has 4 scope pillars: Data Product Management, Data Quality, Data Governance, and the Analytics Hub. This team designs and guides the development of broad-use customer data products for operational and analytical consumption by business teams, as part of a new integrated centralized customer data platform and analytics hub. As a Gridtern, you will work with their lead data quality analyst to facilitate and support data steward meetings. In addition, you will help coordinate training sessions and workshops to promote data quality awareness and best practices. Lastly, as a Gridtern, you will also be supporting with creating process documentation for Data Quality Dashboards, PowerBI reports, and process changes to source systems.   

Enterprise Transformation (Waltham, MA)

Our Enterprise Transformation team is responsible for developing and maintaining the company-wide transformation strategy, ensuring alignment between business units and functional transformation plans. They work to provide an enterprise-level perspective on transformation progress, report on the overall transformation efforts, and offer insights on progress, risks, and opportunities to the CEO and Group Executive team. As a Gridtern, you will research external insights, benchmark best practices, and gathering innovative ideas the to aid National Grid’s transformation across the enterprise. You will help provide analysis support and contribute to creating executive decks, which will offer insights on progress, risks, and opportunities to the CEO and Group Exec.

Gas Construction: Welding Inspection (Waltham, MA) 

Our Gas Construction – Welding Inspection team is responsible for ensuring all welding operations across our company’s gas footprint are completed in a safe and compliant manner. This team is responsible for reviewing documentation to ensure operations are completed error-free and are ready for audit by the state regulators when requested. As a Gridtern, you will review and maintain welding documentation to ensure compliance. Additionally, you will analyze welding maps on work sites across the Massachusetts gas footprint while providing an oversite of contractors performing various Nondestructive examination (NDE) methods including radiography, magnetic particle, liquid dye penetrant, and ultrasonic weld inspection.   

IT & Digital Product Delivery and Management (Waltham, MA)

Our IT & Digital Product Delivery and Management team is responsible for providing support for our US Electric Operations in both our New York and New England service territories. As this team works to find solutions to complex business problems while driving technology adoption. Working towards a clean, fair and affordable energy future, they help to provide support to our value streams of Asset Planning, Work Prep and Execution. As a Gridtern, you will learn and help support product management, engineering, human center design and other cross collaborative teams to deliver on the most prioritized demand to help drive the electric transformation of our business for customers in NY and NE. In addition, you will provide support with story writing, backlog refinement, identifying requirements, run workshops, build roadmaps and learn how to execute on complex software implementations.

Load Forecasting & Analytics (Waltham, MA) 

Our Load Forecasting & Analytics team supports the production of our US Electric and Gas long and short-term load forecasts. This team helps to provide deep economic analysis and insight in order for to transition to the future of clean energy. They also work to enable load forecasters by collecting and providing the data and technology that they need to succeed. As a Gridtern, you will assist this team with various areas of data querying, storing, and exporting using a combination of Python, Azure, Snowflake, and Azure SQL.  You’ll work on data-related tasks including data identification and discovery, data acquisition, data pipelines, data dictionary management, software/script development, and documentation. 

US Electric Software Engineering (Waltham, MA) 

The US Electric Software Engineering team builds software to solve problems and improve efficiency for the US electric business. We are a team of front end, back end, and data engineers who work closely with product managers and designers to build the best experience for our users. As a Gridtern, you will be on a product team and will attend daily scrum meetings, pair programming with other engineers, merging code to the repository and will review other team members’ code.

What You'll Need

• Availability to start on program start date, May 27, 2025, and work full-time (40 hours a week) throughout your duration of the summer 
• Registered in school as a full-time student and continuing education full-time for Fall 2025 Semester  
• Pursuing an Bachelor’s, or Master’s degree 
• Majoring in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration, Economics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Psychology, Marketing, Economics, Statistics, Data Engineering, AI, Software Engineering, Data Management, or a related field 
• Accumulated 18 or more credits and be 18 years of age  
• Work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (including CPT & OPT) 
• Some Gridtern positions will require a valid US Driver’s license with a safe driving history that meets National Grid’s Safe Driver policy. This qualification will be included in the department specific Gridtern role(s) descriptions at point of interview  

At National Grid, we are Superpowered!

The world of energy is changing faster than ever. At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. We’re dreamers, big-thinkers, innovators, and builders. We’re shaping the current, to change the future. We know that a clean, fair, and affordable energy future is in our hands. So, we explore with energy, with innovation and technology powering our progress, and helping us to find a better way to deliver energy to all National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen – inspiring us, giving us time to recharge and providing a safety net on tougher days. But it’s our people that provide our true superpower. They drive and sustain our growth, their unique differences only making us stronger. So join us, and power the future of energy. Find what makes you Superpowered. 

More Information

Salary Range
$20.00 - $26.00 an hour (Undergraduate Student)
$28.00 - $33.00 an hour (Graduate Student)

Candidates will be assessed and provided offers based on major, degree type, and class year. Our Gridtern Program does not offer relocation, housing assistance, or public transportation reimbursement for Gridterns; however, we can provide a list of resources to utilize in making your arrangements.

Please note that as a Gridtern, you must reside within our existing footprint, which includes Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont. You must also reside within a reasonable, commutable distance to your assigned primary office. 

Applications close on October 13, 2024

National Grid utilizes an assessment that evaluates the job qualifications/characteristics using AI or statistically based scoring. For more information, please view NYC Local Law 144. 

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience, and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.