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Data Engineering Project Intern (Ads Targeting) - 2027 Start
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master's degree in CS/Data Engineering/IS or a related discipline.
About the job
Supports development of advertising-targeting data pipelines and platform capabilities, including user-profile tags, data quality, and services for ad delivery systems.
What you'll do
- Build foundational targeting data and platform capabilities for attributes such as geography, device, and language.
- Assist with user-profile and targeting-tag pipelines, including ingestion, cleaning, generation, and refresh.
- Develop batch or streaming jobs and improve data quality through monitoring, checks, alerting, and remediation.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master's degree in CS, Data Engineering, IS, or a related discipline.
- Strong SQL and solid data-modeling fundamentals.
- Proficient in at least one of Java, Scala, or Python.
- Detail-oriented and comfortable working on data definitions and quality governance.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with parts of the big data ecosystem, such as Hive, Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Airflow.
- Experience with user profiles, tagging systems, DMP/CDP, ads or recommender data pipelines; exposure to privacy, anonymization, or access control.
Tools
SQL, Java, Scala, Python, Hive, Spark, Flink, Kafka
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