At a Glance
- Tasks: Dive into real-world data analysis and help tackle environmental challenges.
- Company: Epoetic, a dynamic data and analytics company focused on environmental sensing.
- Benefits: Paid internship at ~£15/hour, flexible hours, and a clear path to a permanent role.
- Other info: Mentorship from the founder and opportunities for career growth in a hybrid work environment.
- Why this job: Make a genuine impact on emissions detection while developing your data science skills.
- Qualifications: Studying or recently graduated in a numerate degree; Python skills are a plus.
The predicted salary is between 15 - 15 £ per hour.
Paid internship · ~£15/hour · part-time (~15 hrs/week, flexible around study) · Falmouth or Bristol (hybrid / remote-friendly) · clear route to permanent.
Epoetic is a small, founder-led data and analytics company working at the sharp end of environmental sensing. We turn messy real-world data from emissions-detection and methane-survey programmes into tooling, automation and analytics that help find and fix gas leaks across the country. It’s genuinely useful work: better data means faster leak detection, lower emissions and safer networks. We’re also developing our own next-generation environmental sensing technology.
This is a paid internship with a real path to a permanent role for the right person. You won’t be making coffee or watching from the sidelines — you’ll do real work that ships, mentored directly by the founder.
Where you’ll start:
- QA — checking and validating data and outputs so everything we deliver is trustworthy
- Data analysis — turning raw survey and operational data into clear answers
- GIS data annotation — working with geospatial network data: labelling, tidying, reconciling
- Running automation pipelines — operating (and gradually improving) the automated processes that keep everything moving
Once you know how the engine runs, you specialise.
Where you’ll grow (the data science side):
- Building trustworthy metrics and KPIs from operational and survey data
- Statistical analysis, performance and productivity insight, anomaly spotting
- Turning analysis into clear, honest reporting and visualisations stakeholders actually use
- Growing toward the harder problems we work on: forecasting, route and resource optimisation, applied ML
What we work with:
- Python — pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn
- Jupyter notebooks
- Data visualisation — matplotlib, Plotly, geopandas and geospatial analysis
- SQL
Nice to have:
- exposure to optimisation (OR-Tools), basic ML, QGIS/ArcGIS
You might be a good fit if you:
- Are studying, or have recently finished, a numerate degree (Data Science, Computer Science, Maths, Physics, or similar)
- Are comfortable in Python and genuinely enjoy getting your hands into real-world data
- Are curious and rigorous — you care whether a number is actually right
- Can explain what you found to someone who isn’t a data scientist
You don’t need to tick every box. Enthusiasm, honesty and a good head for problems matter more than a perfect CV.
To apply: Send a CV and a couple of lines on why this interests you — plus a link to anything you’ve built (GitHub, a project, a notebook) if you have it — to theo@epoetic.com
Locations
Data Science Intern in Cornwall, Falmouth employer: Epoetic Limited
Epoetic is an exceptional employer for aspiring data scientists, offering a paid internship that not only provides hands-on experience in environmental sensing but also a clear pathway to a permanent role. With a flexible part-time schedule around your studies and direct mentorship from the founder, you'll engage in meaningful work that contributes to lower emissions and safer networks while developing your skills in a supportive and innovative environment.
