Job Summary
This job code is to be used for internships and co-ops. It is not to be used for temporary or contract workers.Job Description
Program Overview
Discover opportunities designed to set your career in motion! The Comcast internship/co-op program will help you cultivate meaningful relationships, develop strong interpersonal and business skills, gain exposure to the day-to-day operations of a Fortune 40 media and technology company, and receive mentorship opportunities to expand your professional network.
This program immerses students into the daily operation of a contemporary media and technology company while working side-by-side with Comcast's top innovators. The student becomes an integral part of the Comcast team working on creative, innovative, and thought-provoking projects within various business units.
Organization & Team Overview
FreeWheel, a part of Comcast Advertising, works at the intersection of media and technology. Our solutions and systems are used across the entire Ad Tech ecosystem, and our teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the advertising space.
The OptiML (Mathematical optimization and Machine Learning) team develops, deploys, and supports ML and Optimization processes for forecasting, planning, ad scheduling, and inventory buying applications in the FreeWheel ad serving platform. We use machine learning and mathematical optimization to help supply-side clients characterize, forecast, and manage their supply; and to help internal and external demand-side clients deliver their campaigns successfully. Our team is full of mathematicians, engineers, and people who love data and the problems it can help solve.
Role Description
Do you like solving hard problems and want to work, learn, and grow alongside a great team? Do you ever wonder why you saw a certain ad, or how and why great content is made?
As a Machine Learning Engineer intern on the OptiML team you'll get to work on hard problems in the advertising space and learn how data, optimization, and machine learning can be leveraged to solve these problems.
What are some interesting problems the student will work on?
In your role you'll work on creating and deploying applications to solve advertising business problems. You'll be writing code for cloud-first applications handling huge amounts of data, all to solve critical business problems that help support the advertising ecosystem. As a result, we as consumers continue to get great content.
Where can this student make an impact?
You'll be working with a great team of Machine Learning Engineers to deliver applications and solutions to business problems that will have a lasting effect on FreeWheel's business, how our clients' advertising dollars are spent, and how our clients' inventory (ad space) is optimized. At the end of the internship you'll be able to look back at all that you learned about advertising, tech, cloud computing, as well as data engineering and machine learning and optimization.
Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Process and analyze data for use in forecasting and optimization
Visualization, dashboard, and monitoring development
Develop machine learning models for forecasting
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Preferred Skills
Machine Learning
Big Data Analytics
Python
Preferred Majors: Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Data Science
Minimum Qualifications and Eligibility Requirements
Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree from a United States-based college or university
Rising Junior or Rising Senior only (must have a graduation date between Winter 2025- Spring 2027)
Returning to degree-program (for at least a semester) after the completion of the summer internship (meaning, student must be returning to school for Fall 2025 semester before graduating)
Available to work 40 hours per week over the course of the summer program- June 2 through August 15, 2025
Authorized to work in the United States with no current or future sponsorship needs
Available to report in-person to the work location on the job posting (unless virtual offering)
Comcast is an Affirmative Action/EEO employer M/F/D/V
Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Salary:
Base Pay: $40.00
The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Relevant Work Experience
0-2 Years
