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Data Scientist Intern

Hybrid - West Des Moines, IA

2026 Summer Internship: May 18 - August 7, 2026

  About Tractor Zoom

We are committed to helping leaders in agriculture make data-driven decisions when it comes to buying, selling, financing, and insuring heavy equipment. Tailored to each business’ unique needs, the Tractor Zoom solution suite utilizes data and technology to impart equipment insights that are honest, accessible, and actionable. We empower Farm Credit Associations, Farm Service Agencies, banks, equipment dealerships, auctioneers, and farmers, and fuel their growth.

We’re Looking for an ‘A’ Player

We are seeking a Data Scientist Intern for the Summer of 2026 that will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. If you'd like to be a part of a growing startup located in Central Iowa, we'd love to chat with you. We utilize new technologies to deliver amazing products for our customers. If you have an eagerness to learn and explore technologies, this is a perfect internship for you! 

As a Data Scientist Intern, your primary focus will be applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our products. You will help accelerate the development of our products, strengthen our process and grow our engineering culture. As an employee at our early stage data and technology company, you will have a deep impact in the success and growth of the company. 

Responsibilities:

• Work with our data team to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.


• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.


• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods


• Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed


• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems


• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis


• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner


• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance


• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Pursuing a degree in Data Science/Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field


• Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on product development.


• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SLQ, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.


• Experience working with and creating data architectures.


• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.


• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.


• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.


• Experience with distributed data/computing tools: Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, etc.


• Experience visualizing/presenting data for stakeholders 

More Details:

• Internships are paid hourly at 40-hour work weeks  


• All intern positions are based at our office in West Des Moines, IA 


• Hybrid - 4 days in office and 1 day remote


• All interns will be expected to secure their own housing

Tractor Zoom Culture

We are a small but mighty team of driven, out-of-the-box thinkers that are hungry for information. We are not only passionate about identifying customer pain points but inspired to solve them. Our values unite us and help us work together toward our common goals. We’re a customer first organization knowing they are ultimately the end users of our products and technology. 

If you’re interested in making a difference and seeing your efforts directly impact the trajectory of a company. Come join us!

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