Job Description

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life . Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Data Scientist/Statistician Intern (MS/PhD)

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

The empowered and agile Data Science & Statistics team is charged with creating analytics systems that enable highly effective product development via virtual experimentation, optimization and knowledge discovery. In addition, the team provides data science consulting services to the Lubrizol technical community throughout the world. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.

What We're Looking For:

Potential projects (depending on intern skills and current Lubrizol needs):

• Create predictive models by mining complex data for critical formulating or testing insights

• Implement and assess algorithms in R, Python, SAS, JMP, or C#/C++

• Research, develop, and operationalize new statistical, machine learning and/or optimization methods (PhD level)
• Collaborate with data science team, as well as scientists and engineers, to understand their needs, and find creative solutions to meet those needs

Previous intern projects include:

• Predictive modeling using Bayesian and machine learning methods
• R/Shiny tool development to enable model predictions and formulation optimization
• Creation of an interactive visualization tool for monitoring predictive models
• Development of a bootstrap procedure for a hypothesis test
• Multitask learning (transfer learning) using co-regionalized Gaussian Processes (PhD level)
• Multivariate variable selection approach using Variational Bayes (PhD level)
• Multi-objective optimization using genetic algorithms (PhD level)
• Survival modeling using bagged Cox proportional hazards regression trees (PhD level)
• Bootstrap variance estimation for complex nonlinear models (PhD level)

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Enrolled in a Master’s or PhD program such as statistics, data science, machine learning
• Excellent programming skills with the ability to learn new methods quickly
• Exposure to database systems and the ability to efficiently manipulate complex data
• Interest and experience in advanced statistical modeling/machine learning methods (PhD level)
• Coursework in statistical modeling and data mining methods
• Curiosity and creativity

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• Housing and relocation assistance for eligible students
• Competitive hourly wage with tenure-based raises
• Paid holidays within your work period
• Semesterly philanthropy, networking, and professional development events

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers, and communities.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. More than that, we are committed to providing a n environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic.

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