Data Science Intern - Summer 2026

You are as unique as your background, experience, and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered, and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families, and communities around the world.

What’s it like to work at Sun Life?

You’ll find it dynamic and highly professional; collaborative and supportive. We encourage innovative thinking to leverage technology to create solutions. Sun Life is also a socially responsible employer, supporting the communities in which we live and work, with a globally recognized commitment to the environment and sustainability.

The Role: 

The Data & Analytics Engineering team is looking for a proactive, positive, and dynamic Data Science intern to join our team. You will have a passion for technology, collaboration and creative problem solving.

As a member of the team you will work with supervision and guidance to apply basic engineering and data science skills, tool, practices and techniques to all the teams deliverables. You'll work with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers and Data Engineers to deliver client centered solutions by collaborating with cross-functional groups and contribute to the overall development.

This is a great opportunity to join the team!

This position will be based out of our Wellesley, MA office and interns must be able to work on a hybrid basis.

What's in it for you?

This internship will give you the opportunity to experience life in a professional IT environment. You will participate in the design, develop, support, deploy and/or test of AI and machine learning solutions that are high-quality, innovative, efficient, creative, scalable, adaptable, dynamic, fully performing and comply with all standards and best practices in support of business and Client outcomes and objectives. You'll gain an appreciation and understanding of data and analytical concepts such as data modelling, machine learning, analytics, development, testing and governance to name a few.

Preferred skills:

Experience with data science platforms such as RStudio, AWS Sagemaker or Dataiku

Experience with programming languages and frameworks used in data science such as Python, R, Panadas, Shiny, Bokeh and Dash

Experience with cloud computing environments and advantage especially in data processing and Artificial Intelligence services (for example AWS Sagemaker, Comprehend, Athena and Textract)

Experience with data visualization platforms such as Tableau, Quicksight and ThoughtSpot

Basic Understanding of IT systems

Excellent Communication skills

Excellent verbal and written skills

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

Detail oriented individual

The Candidate:

To be eligible for an internship at Sun Life, you must meet the following requirements:

Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university during the time of internship (June 2026 – August 2026)

Must be enrolled in an undergraduate student in Data Science, Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study

Eligible to legally work in the United States

Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) during the Intern session

Compensation for this role will be around $20 an hour