Internship (Co-op) Junior Data Scientist

At Gentherm, we say, “ It’s about the person .” We’re with you on a cold winter day when you turn on your heated seat and steering wheel or helping manage patient body temperature in the operating room, recovering room or intensive care units. We take a human approach with everything we do.

As the global market leader of innovative thermal management and pneumatic comfort technologies for the automotive industry we embrace the opportunity to create and deliver extraordinary solutions  that make meaningful differences in everyday life. We do this by improving health, wellness, comfort and energy efficiency.

We embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and combine that with our global leadership to deliver results. Working at Gentherm provides you the opportunity to not only shape the future of the automotive and medical industries, but also influence your career throughout the company. You will be engaged, challenged and inspired by our team to deliver leading thermal technologies that positively impact lives around the world.

Internship (Co-op) Junior Data Scientist

IMPACT and OPPORTUNITY

At Gentherm, we are expanding our human research testing capabilities and are looking for a Junior Data Scientist to join our new thermal physiology research team. The team sits at the forefront of the company’s mission in developing thermal solutions that improve health, wellness and comfort. The Junior Data Scientist will play an integral role in supporting our data infrastructure and analyzing the influx of quantitative and qualitative data from the thermophysiology research team. This includes human physiological and perceptual data from laboratory-based and real-world driving studies and automotive data from vehicles and our thermal solutions. The Junior Data Scientist will assist in the development of individual-specific mathematical models and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for predicting personalized comfort and wellness. Whilst the candidate should be grounded in fundamental principles of data science methods, they should also know how to rise above the numbers and explain essential insights to users at all levels. Application of data is at the heart of our mission

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support data collection, archival and curation for integration into databases with high data quality, transparency, validity and reliability (i.e. data management plan)
• Explore various analytic techniques such as signal processing, statistics, machine / deep learning, and optimization to extract insights from laboratory-based and real-world data
• Support in developing appropriate human thermal comfort models captured from various data sources; thermal images, wearables, vehicle-level data
• Support our research team in writing technical reports backed by statistical analysis.
• Ensure compliance with data protection policies (e.g. HIPAA).
• Communicate data using appropriate data visualization tools
• Participates in miscellaneous research efforts within the Gentherm R&D team.

QUALIFICATIONS

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :

COMPETENCIES

Understand the mission and output of your team; set SMART objectives and deliver

Focus on agility and commitment to continuous improvement; Understand and act on internal and external drivers of change

Foster a culture of learning and development; Support individual growth through continuous feedback to achieve personal and professional goals

Openly embrace, create, implement and support new and innovative ideas, processes and technology that deliver business results

PHYSICAL DEMANDS / WORK ENVIRONMENT

All positions in our office require interaction with people and technology while either standing or sitting. In order to best serve our customers, internal and external, all associates must be able to communicate face-to-face and on the phone with or without reasonable accommodation. Gentherm is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, it attempts to reasonably accommodate applicants and employees in accordance with the requirements of the disability discrimination laws. It also invites individuals with disabilities to participate in a good faith, interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made without imposing an undue hardship.