Data Science Intern, Summer 2026

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Germany, Ireland, Poland, and Australia, we’re building the future of online marketplaces –together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

💻 Role

• We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join our Data team! You will partner with our Engineering, Product, Finance and Operations teams to identify critical goals for the business, develop a deep understanding of them, and design scalable solutions. You should have strong critical thinking and analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a knack for working across teams in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will be adept in navigating the data stack and able to support initiatives in all facets from analytics/data engineering and product analytics to machine learning.

• This is a 12-16 week internship during Summer 2026. In the role you will gain exposure into various skills involved in making data driven business decisions. Ranging from analytics engineering, dashboard building, and presenting insights.Your work and ideas will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges we face today and define future initiatives. This is a hybrid internship. so Whatnot interns will need to locate within 50-miles of one of our offices in SF, LA, and NYC.

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our next Data Science Intern you should be:

• Pursuing a degree in Econ, Business, Analytics, Data Science, or Engineering graduating between Dec 2026 and Summer 2027

• Proficient in SQL and other scripting languages like Python or R

• Adept at translating business problems into code and producing practical solutions

• Analytical thinker who can break down business problems into pieces measured by data

• Excellent communicator between technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Passionate about storytelling with data

• Bonus points for being a collector

• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app

  • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.