Data Science - Intern 2025

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 315,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet your Future Neighbors

The Data Science team at Nextdoor is responsible for design and oversight of product experiments, complex analysis to drive company and product strategy, and deploying online and offline models to a production environment. The Data Science group is made up of people from a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives, trained in fields as wide-ranging as psychology, geology, physics, and statistics. We are the mathematical decision scientists for their product development organization and play an active and collaborative role in building and improving the product.

Throughout your internship, you’ll be immersed in Nextdoor’s dynamic community and attend events that promote your professional and personal development, beginning with a thorough onboarding process. You’ll join team meetings, pair-programming sessions, Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), training and workshops, social events, coffee chats with our leadership team, a global volunteer day, and more! We look forward to hearing your ideas and working together to build a great product. Learn more about the experiences of our former interns here.

The Impact You’ll Make

Over 12 weeks as a data science intern at Nextdoor, you’ll own the research, analysis, presentation, and productionization of a stand-alone project or model that directly impacts our product strategy. You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, and other data scientists to deliver a meaningful project in an area like content moderation, ads allocations, or growth & notifications. You’ll be partnered with one of Nextdoor’s data scientists for the summer - we’re so excited to have you!

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Currently pursuing a quantitative degree, with graduation expected between Fall 2025 and Summer 2026
• Comfort working in Python or R, including common scientific computing packages and data science tools such as numpy, pandas, and scikit-learn
• Comfort with methods, tools, and packages for statistical modeling and machine learning
• Experience formulating, running, and sharing complex analyses
• Experience architecting, debugging, and executing SQL queries
• Excellent written and oral communication, including ability to effectively communicate complexity to a diverse group of stakeholders
• Curiosity about how things work, from both a business and technical perspective
• A collaborative spirit and a commitment to community

Bonus Points

• Work or academic experience related to social or community-based products
• Work or academic experience related to small businesses and marketplaces
• Work or academic experience related to advertising and auction system
• Experience testing and evaluating the impact of network effects
• Knowledge of web applications and service-oriented architecture

Perks & Benefits

• Housing stipend so you can spend your summer with us in San Francisco
• Access to benefits (including mental health benefits, commuter benefits, wellness benefits, etc)
• Fully stocked micro-kitchens, snacks, and lunches at our SF office
• Team events and socials
• Global volunteer opportunities
• Ability to join any of our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)!

The salary for this role is $3,467 paid semi-monthly, plus a semi-monthly housing stipend of $1,000.

Applications for this position will be accepted until September 30, 2024

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.