Data Science Intern (Brazil) - Year Round 2026

Who We Are

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture. With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering. From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location and Flexibility

Our interns are integral parts of our teams at TELUS Digital. Our office culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members, local and visiting, from other global offices. In order to help retain this culture, this role will maintain an in-office presence in a hybrid capacity from our office in Porto Alegre (3 times/ week or 12 days/ month).

The Opportunity

As Data Science Intern at TELUS Digital, you’ll impact our organization by working alongside a passionate team and learning and developing your love for data. Our internship program gives current students the chance to make an impact, all while receiving one-on-one mentoring from our full-time Product Design team member to ensure you are advancing in your craft. Not only that, but you'll have a fun and exciting office to go to, and plenty of chances to socialize with your fellow interns. We'll have you with us throughout the university year, and yes, it is definitely paid. Not a bad gig, right?

Responsibilities

• You’ll participate in the delivery of large and complex software projects in a team-based environment.
• Your work will influence millions of users.
• You’ll have the opportunity to learn every day from Data Science leadership.
• You’ll participate in the delivery of large and complex projects in a team-based environment.
• You will have the opportunity to work in the evaluation of LLM (Large Language Models).
• Your day-to-day will involve developing APIs and generative AI applications.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a Bachelor's or Technician's Degree Program in Technology, Engineering or similar areas of study, from the 4th-6th semester.
• Interest in working with Python, JSON, Object-Oriented Programming.
• Living in Porto Alegre, and able to work in-office three times per week or twelve times per month.
• Availability of 30 hours a week for at least 1 year of internship.
• Intermediate to Advanced English level.

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of Clean Code, Solid, Security, noSQL/SQL
• Interest or experience with Cloud, CI/CD, GCP, Azure, AWS, Langraph, Langchain, PydanticAI, OpenAI

Equal Opportunity Employer 

At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants’ qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.

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