Data Science Intern

Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! As a member of First American’s family of companies, Data & Analytics is a national provider of property-centric information, analytics, risk management and valuation solutions. First American maintains and curates the industry’s largest property and ownership dataset with over 7 billion document images. Our major platforms and products include:
Data Tree®, Fraud Guard®, Regs Data™, Tax Source™ and ACI®.

The First American Data & Analytics division boasts more than 20 patents and remains at the forefront of innovation—leveraging technology and data to deliver best‑in‑class decisioning solutions. Our solutions provide lenders, real estate and title companies with actionable insights, enabling them to make better, increasingly automated, decisions. With offices in all major metropolitan areas, including California and New York, DNA teams work collaboratively from across the country.

Since 1889, First American has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential.

First American’s Internship Program is a full‑time, 10‑12 week paid internship from June – August, 2026 which can be worked from an office or remotely, depending on the job opportunity. Our interns will work in a program designed to help you gain experience and develop the technical, professional and interpersonal skills that will be invaluable throughout your career. As a First American Data Scientist Intern you will gain exposure to working in a corporate environment within the Financial/Tech Industry—balanced with intern‑specific activities, executive level presentations and networking opportunities—while under the guidance of a manager and/or mentor.

Undergraduate students are assigned significant work assignments to support a specific business function within Data and Analytics.

This Data Scientist Internship within Data and Analytics is a project‑based role to gain varied experience on numerous software development projects, which may include model development, operations testing, scripting and getting exposure to our cloud environment.

As a Data Modeling Intern working in First American’s Data and Analytics division, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a strong team of data scientists, engineers, and subject matter experts to build best‑in‑class property valuation models, related collateral analytic models, and work with unique data. You will be involved in building analytics capabilities and have access to property‑centric data that spans 100% of the nation.

• Leverage skills to perform exploratory analysis, construct relevant variables, and identify patterns and data anomalies.
• Work with data operations partners to enhance existing and future data elements for model accuracy and effectiveness.
• Perform end‑to‑end activities within the model development life cycle from problem identification, feature engineering, model training and evaluation and deployment.

We are seeking College/University students enrolled in Bachelor’s degree programs with 0‑2 years’ of work experience. Preferred fields of study:
Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems.

• Proficiency in MS Office Suite applications and an understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Proficiency with RDBs and hands‑on experience developing high‑performance SQL queries.
• Proficiency with R, or Python preferred.
• The ability to solve problems, be detail‑oriented and be conscientious about all work completed.
• Experience with large datasets.
• The potential to excel in the following competencies:
  Communication, Customer Focus, Ethics & Integrity, Teamwork & Adaptability, Productivity & Initiative.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills.

Pay Range: $24.00 – $28.00. This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job‑related knowledge, skills,…