IT Intern, Summer 2025 - Data Engineer

About PACCAR

 

PACCAR, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company established in 1905 and is recognized as a global leader in the commercial vehicle, financial, and customer service fields. PACCAR is a global technology leader in the design, manufacture, and customer support of high-quality light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks under its internationally recognized brands Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF nameplates. PACCAR designs and manufactures advanced diesel engines and provides customized financial services, information technology and truck parts related to its principal business.

 

Your next career move is waiting at PACCAR whether you want to design the transportation technology of tomorrow, support the staff functions of a dynamic, international leader, or build our excellent products and services. Join the PACCAR team today!

 

Division Information

 

PACCAR's Information Division (ITD), located in Renton, WA, utilizes cutting-edge technology to provide systems development, consulting, voice and data communications services to the entire corporation, which has high visibility in the technology sector.

 

The Role

 

Does empowering teams to make data driven decisions excite you? Do you wake up in the morning wondering what possibilities could be unlocked with more data? PACCAR is looking for a data engineer to join the team. Data Engineering focuses on making possible fast, accurate, and reliable access to data. We build data pipelines, manage a data lake, and support the production use of our data. We advocate for leading data practices and make sure that our business users can make data driven decisions.

 

About the Team

 

As a Data Engineer Intern, you will work with a highly celebrative team of data engineers with different backgrounds. This data engineering team focuses on solving PACCAR’s most important challenges by making data available to our data science and analytics teams. As part of a diversified global Fortune 500 company, the data engineering team works on a huge variety of projects, from building data ingestion pipelines to data quality products, data integration services and data platforms. Come join this dynamic, growing, and pioneering team!

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Build and support automated data pipelines from a wide range of data source
• Working on ways to automated and improve development and release processes
• Develop solutions to measure, improve, and monitor data quality based on business requirements.
• Proactively support product health by building solutions that are automated, scalable, and sustainable – be relentlessly focused on minimizing defects and technical debt

 

Required Experience & Skills

 

• Basic proficiency with a dialect of ANSI SQL and Python
• Working knowledge of RDBMS databases such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL preferred.
• Experience with participating in projects in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline team environment.

 

Education

 

• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science, Informatics, or a related field required

 

Benefits of working at PACCAR

 

As a U.S. PACCAR intern, you have a full range of benefit options including:

 

• 401k with up to a 5% company match
• Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA)
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• EAP services including wellness plans, estate planning, financial counseling and more
• Global Fortune 500 company with a wide array of growth, training, and development opportunities
• Work alongside experienced goal-oriented colleagues recognized as experts in their field

 

Diversity & Inclusion

 

PACCAR has success with diverse teams of employees working together to achieve excellent results. Having a diverse and inclusive work environment ensures PACCAR has the talent needed to conduct business today and in the future by leveraging different backgrounds, skills, and viewpoints. We believe diversity in the workplace increases innovation, results in better decisions, and increases employee engagement.

PACCAR increases awareness through the efforts of global company-wide Diversity Councils and various employee resource groups that support initiatives & activities including multi-cultural events, outreach, mentorship programs, and more. PACCAR has been awarded the Top Company for Women to Work for in Transportation since 2018 by the Women in Trucking Association and Newsweek 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women.

For more information, please visit our Diversity and Inclusion Commitment page: Diversity and Inclusion (paccar.com)

 

Additional Information

 

PACCAR is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability. At PACCAR, we value talent and promote growth and development. We carefully consider numerous compensation factors including your education, training, or experience. If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H-1B visas, now or in the future.

 

The salaries for intern positions are as follows:

• Undergraduate Enrollment - $25 / hour
• Graduate Enrollment - $30 / hour