Data Engineering Intern

Position Summary

About the Role

Powered by People is hiring a Data Intern for the 2026 summer and fall semesters. Your mission will be to work closely with our data engineer to build and maintain our complex data infrastructure for managing our 100,000+ target voters and 10,000+ interested volunteers. This is a role designed for a student who has some technical background, is eager to learn and develop their technical skillset, and can take on and manage projects independently with minimal supervision (after the appropriate training of course!).

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare the work for, train, and manage the data clean-up volunteers in their bi-weekly manual clean-up of the state voter file.
• Familiarize yourself with our relational organizing app, Reach, and our custom infrastructure built on top of it. Be responsible for fielding questions from volunteers and staff on how the app and our infrastructure works.
• Other, more technical projects will be assigned based on intern interest and organizational need. Our tech stack mostly involves SQL and Python and there’s a wide range of projects you can work on depending on your skill set and interest. Example projects would include building new SQL scheduled queries for our tagging systems, updating a Python data sync pipeline, or transforming data from a table into a new column for our various trackers!

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled student or recent graduate interested in a career in data, politics, or both
• Systems thinker who can understand the overall picture of what organizing problems our tech infrastructure is trying to solve and are able to use their problem solving skills to update that stack in the optimal way to solve our organizing issues
• Reliable, organized, and able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Some familiarity with SQL or an object-oriented programming language (i.e. Python, Java) is a huge advantage
• Strong commitment to Powered by People’s mission of expanding voter access in Texas
• Someone who can begin immediately and work through the end of the 2026 election cycle is preferred

Compensation & Benefits

• Part-time internship (10-20 hours per week)
• $15/hr

To Apply:  Please send a brief note of interest, your resume, and a list of coursework and technical projects you’ve worked on to with the subject line: Data Intern Application – [Your Name]. The part of the application we’ll be looking at most closely is the list of coursework and technical projects.