Digital Transformation/Data Science Student Employee (Nuclear)

Job Title:Digital Transformation/Data Science Student Employee (Nuclear)

Location:Charlotte, NC

Job Summary and Description:

Digital Transformation (DX) is defined as the fundamental business and cultural change utilizing a digital strategy that is applicable to an organization’s value delivery and the way customers experience that value. The power industry has begun a journey of DX to help enable an energy transformation. Effective use of digital technologies in combination with data driven decision making enables measurable impacts on existing power generation and will help inform the energy transformation. This is planned to be done by creating a collaborative cohort focused on people, processes, technology, and data in power generation – integrated with cyber security. As a Digital Transformation/Data Science Student Employee, you will support this effort with a variety of tasks.

This internship is based onsite in our Charlotte, North Carolina office.

 

Potential Projects:

• Support of Digital Transformation (DX) efforts: wiki site, literature search, and stakeholder meetings.

• Support of data science efforts: data cleaning/labeling, exploratory data analysis, data modeling, and dashboard as is related to large language models, computer/machine vision, and timeseries.

• Support of robotics research: literature search, code creation, and field demo logistics.

• And other related duties as assigned.

• All of the above tasks are to be performed under the supervision of the project manager.

 

The typical digital transformation summer student employee will meet the following criteria:

• Be in their junior or senior year as an undergraduate or in a graduate school as a master’s or Ph.D. candidate.

• Demonstrate organizational skills, such as having completed a group engineering design project and/or led school or recreational clubs.

• Have coding capability in python, R, and/or SQL. C++, HTML, and other standard languages are a plus. A project/repo demonstrating this capability will be requested.

• Be willing to take on challenges and work with concepts and tasks that are outside of the typical knowledge base.

• Be a thought leader and offer suggestions, ideas, and alternatives, especially around new techniques and technologies.

• Be willing to work with other summer student employees to exchange knowledge, answer questions, and learn best practices.

• Must be willing to communicate proactively, ask questions, and learn from technical mentors, engineers, and managers at EPRI.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Junior or Senior undergraduate or in graduate school as a master’s or Ph.D. candidate.

• Typical major include, but are not limited to: Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Science, or Data Science.

The hourly rate range for Student positions are:

• Undergraduate: $16-29 per hour
• Masters: $25-31 per hour
• Ph.D: $27-34 per hour

These ranges are an estimate, and the actual hourly rate may vary based on various factors, including without limitation applicant's education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The hourly rate may also be adjusted based on applicant's geographic location.

As an EPRI Student, you will not participate in EPRI’s Benefit Programs which includes health insurance, retirement benefits, vacation, sick leave (except as set required by law) and holiday pay. However, as a Student employee you are eligible for the benefits of Social Security, State Disability Insurance, and Workers’ Compensation Insurance.

For Student positions which require one to relocate to an EPRI office.  Relocation assistance is not provided and the student will be responsible for covering all relocation costs/expenses.

EPRI participates in E-Verify, an online system operated jointly by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration (SSA). EPRI uses the system to check the work status of new hires by comparing information from the employee's I-9 form against SSA and Department of Homeland Security databases.

EPRI is an equal opportunity employer. EEO/AA/M/F/VETS/Disabled

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