Data Science Intern

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.

P&C IT Services provides professional services to help our business units and corporate functions use technology to create, manage, and optimize information and business processes.  IT Services can include a wide range of activities such as: software development, data management, Cloud services, IT security, network security, technical support, establishing and overseeing access rights, procuring and maintaining equipment or software, managing the infrastructure, and defining security procedures,  The overall goal of IT Services is to provide technology solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and give our company a competitive advantage over our competitors.

The Emerging Technology team within P&C IT Services is seeking an intern for the summer 2025.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes internal and external data and performs statistical modeling to develop actionable insights and recommendations to management regarding business and product performance.
• Develops data mining architectures/models/protocols, statistical reporting, and data analysis methodologies to identify trends and extract knowledge from large, high dimensional data sets.
· Identifies areas to increase efficiency and automation of data analysis processes.
· Translate business problems/opportunities into technical requirements and data science specifications.
• Creates solutions that enable enhanced business performance and decision making through a range of data preparation, modeling, analysis and/or visualization techniques.
• Uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop processes automation.
• Researches and applies knowledge of existing and emerging data science principles, theories, and techniques to inform business decisions.
• Develops and maintains strong business knowledge and customer relationships.
• May estimate the economic impact of operational decisions.
• Actively participates in scrum planning and documentation in support of producing minimum viable products as well as product long term roadmaps
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Internal drive to expand your personal domain expertise and an insatiable curiosity about how to use that expertise in collaboration with other team members to mitigate our current and future customers’ financial insecurities.
• Coding skills in Python, the core AI/ML libraries (required)
o PyTorch, and the HuggingFace library (bonus)
• Coding skills in PySpark (bonus)
• Know your math:
• Statistics – What is a hypothesis test and what is the central limit theorem? (required)
• Linear Algebra – Be able to explain Singular Value Decomposition and what an Eigenvector is.
• Stochastic processes (bonus)
• Bayesian Statistics (I almost want to say required, but I won’t)
• A solid understanding of finance
• Option pricing model – Why is this important to insurance?
• What is the difference between risk avoidance, mitigation, and mediation?

Education:

• Working on a B.S. in Applied Math, Statistics, Engineering, Finance, Science, or Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Graduating in 2028

Business Unit:

Benefits:

Compensation varies by role, position level, and location. Individual pay is influenced by skills, education, training, certifications, experience, and the role's scope and complexity, along with business needs.

We offer a competitive Total Rewards package, including medical, dental, and vision plans starting on day one, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, an employee stock purchase plan, education reimbursement, paid parental leave/adoption assistance, and a 401(k) plan with company match. These benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees.

Your recruiter can provide more details about our total rewards and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process.