AI & Data Engineering Intern

About the role

15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154

A Brief Summary of This Position

At Valmont, we believe a career here is a career with a future! As a global leader in agriculture and infrastructure, we design solutions that help our customers grow smarter and work more efficiently.

As an AI and Data Engineering Intern within Valmont's Agriculture Division Software Engineering Department, you'll play an important role in advancing data-driven decision-making and irrigation optimization. You'll gain hands-on experience working with cloud-based data systems, developing predictive models, and collaborating with engineering and product teams to deliver impactful data insights.

Valmont's internship program provides a hands-on learning experience through project work, leadership development, job shadowing, and interaction with senior leaders across the company.

What You'll Do

• Extract, clean, and preprocess data from Azure-based databases
• Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities
• Engineer features for predictive modeling and decision-making
• Develop and evaluate machine learning models to support irrigation optimization
• Document methodologies, findings, and present insights to key stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate data solutions
• Identify data quality issues and propose process improvements

What We're Looking For

• Junior, Senior, or recent graduate pursuing a degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field
• Proficiency in SQL for data extraction and manipulation
• Strong programming skills in Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib/Seaborn)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure
• Strong experience in data cleaning, feature engineering, and model development, with the ability to interpret data, solve problems analytically, and translate findings into actionable insights
• Experience working with time-series or sensor data, particularly in agriculture or environmental contexts, is preferred
• Familiarity with geospatial analysis tools such as GeoPandas or QGIS is preferred
• Understanding of precision agriculture, irrigation systems, or agronomy preferred
• Exposure to MLOps practices and deploying machine learning models in production environments is preferred
• Experience with dashboarding and data visualization tools like Power BI, Tableau, or Plotly Dash preferred
• Ability to work in the office, either Tuesday or Thursday

What You'll Gain

• Paid internship with meaningful, career-related work experience
• Tuition assistance and other benefits available based on hours worked
• Part-time during the academic year, full-time and flexible in the summer, with potential for a full-time position post-graduation
• A supportive culture focused on learning and growth
• Opportunities to collaborate with intern peers and company leaders

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family's overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)
• 401k retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off
• Employer paid life insurance
• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave
• Work Life Support
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more