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# Data Science Internship (Current PhD) - Summer 2027 at Neighbor

- **Company:** Neighbor
- **Location:** Lehi, UT
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/neighbor/b5f73774-1d5a-4edc-a184-d1734731cd9c

## Job description

At Neighbor, we’re building the largest hyperlocal marketplace the world has ever seen. We’ve raised over $75 million from top-tier investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and the CEOs of DoorDash, StockX, and Uber. Our marketplace is already flourishing in all 50 states and we’re just getting started! We're excited to add a Data Scientist Intern to our Data & Analytics team. You'll work on the machine learning models we already run in production, including lifetime value, unit economics, and forecasting, making them more accurate and showing with evidence that they've improved. You'll also help Product, Marketing, and Sales divisions design A/B tests and interpret the results. Your work feeds directly into decisions across a marketplace that operates in nearly every U.S. city. This is a great fit for a PhD student who wants to apply their research skills to live business problems. You'll report to our Data & Analytics manager, with regular code review and hands-on mentorship. Our stack: Python, dbt, and Dagster on Redshift and Athena, with a Cube semantic layer and Superset for BI.

The Problems You'll Solve

- Improve our lifetime value and unit economics models. Retrain them, re-engineer their features, and validate their predictions against realized outcomes.
- Audit inherited models: find the leakage, the stale hardcoded assumption, the segment where performance quietly falls apart, and the feature that's doing less work than everyone believes.
- Build forecasts our operators actually plan against: demand and supply by market, revenue, and the levers that move them.
- Partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales to design tests before they launch. Catching an underpowered test in the design review is worth more than any analysis you can do afterward.
- Analyze results and make a call and be candid about what each design can and can't identify
- Become a subject matter expert on Neighbor's product, users, and marketing life cycle. The modeling is the easy part; knowing which features mean something is the hard part.

## Qualifications

- PhD-level candidate currently enrolled  in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Physics, Data Science, etc.) completing your PhD by May of 2028; transcript required
- Demonstrated research, coursework, or project experience applying statistics and machine learning to real-world or complex datasets
- Strong SQL and fluent Python for modeling are required; experience with dbt or semantic layers like Cube is a big plus, but we're happy to train you on our specific transformation stack
- Academic or project-based experience with A/B testing design or statistical hypothesis testing
- Real grounding in inference, not just fitting: you can explain what your confidence interval means, why the p-value moved when you added a second metric, how leakage sneaks into a validation split, and when you don't have the data to answer the question
- Strong problem-solving mindset and eagerness to diagnose and improve existing code and statistical models
- Intellectual stubbornness in a productive direction: you keep pulling on a thread when the numbers don't reconcile, and you don't ship an explanation you don't believe
- Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders: you can explain a result and its uncertainty without either overclaiming or hiding behind jargon

About Neighbor: Neighbor is the largest and most comprehensive marketplace for self storage and parking, with listings in almost every U.S. city. From storage facilities to neighborhood garages, driveways, and RV spots, Neighbor brings every option together in one simple search. Come help us disrupt the $500 billion storage and parking industry! This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing, VC-backed tech startup. You will be part of a an extremely talented, hardworking and passionate team committed to changing the world one neighbor at a time.

Neighbor is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, connect with us via email at hr@neighbor.com. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Neighbor!

## About Neighbor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neighbor operates the largest peer-to-peer marketplace in the United States for storage and parking, connecting people with unused space to those who need affordable storage.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A/B stage; $67.3M+ total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Lehi, Utah, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Preston Alder, Colton Gardner, Joseph Woodbury

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Technology, Information and Internet (Marketplace)
- Target customers: B2C (individuals seeking storage or renting out space) and B2B (businesses monetizing underutilized real estate)
- Mission or purpose statement: Create the largest passive income marketplace by making storage 50% cheaper for renters and turning unused space into reliable income for hosts.

## Products & Services
- **Neighbor Marketplace**: A web and mobile platform where hosts list garages, driveways, basements, lots, and RV parking for monthly rent, and renters find, compare, and book storage spaces in minutes. Type: Two-sided marketplace (SaaS-enabled).
- **Host Guarantee & Protection**: Hosts are backed by up to $1M in liability coverage, with optional Property Protection Plans for renters. Type: Service/Insurance feature.
- **Business Solutions**: Turnkey platform for multifamily properties, small businesses, and storage facilities to monetize vacant space. Type: B2B service.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $67.3M (reported by LinkedIn); other sources cite $75M from top-tier investors.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Fifth Wall, Pelion Venture Partners, and the CEOs of Uber, StockX, and DoorDash as individual investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 254 employees (+35.1% YoY); active listings in all 50 U.S. states; monthly headcount growth of +5.9%; 6 active job postings with +50% YoY growth in openings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: Largest hyper-local storage marketplace in the U.S. with nationwide coverage — the more hosts and renters join, the more valuable the platform becomes.
- **Price advantage**: Renters save up to 50% compared to traditional self-storage, making the value proposition extremely compelling.
- **Low-friction for hosts**: Hosts spend an average of just 16 minutes per month managing their space, enabling true passive income.
- **Strong brand and trust infrastructure**: ID-verified hosts, thousands of 5-star reviews, and up to $1M in liability coverage reduce friction in peer-to-peer transactions.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding nationwide marketplace density and inventory across all 50 states.
- Grow B2B adoption with multifamily properties and small businesses to unlock institutional supply.
- Scale the host and renter base through partnerships and brand marketing to disrupt the $500B storage industry.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-transparency, low-ego environment that attracts and invests in "top 1% talent" pursuing hard challenges.
- **Location**: On-site roles in Lehi, Utah (HQ) with a modern office featuring a 24/7 on-site gym and showers.
- **Compensation & benefits**: Competitive stock options, medical/dental/vision insurance, accident & disability insurance, 401(k) plan, generous PTO & holidays, and parental leave.
- **Team & growth**: Fast-growing company (+35% headcount YoY) with roles across Engineering, Data, Marketing, Sales, Product, and Trust & Safety — offering significant career growth potential in a scaling organization.
- **Employee ratings**: 4.4/5.0 on employer review sites, with strong marks for Work-Life (4.2), Culture (4.2), and Career (4.4).

## Sources
1. [neighbor.com - Company overview](https://www.neighbor.com/?stream=top)
2. [neighbor.com - Careers page](https://www.neighbor.com/careers)
3. [jobs.lever.co - Neighbor job listings](https://jobs.lever.co/neighbor)
4. [linkedin.com - Neighbor company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/neighbor)
5. [indeed.com - Neighbor careers and salaries](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Neighbor-9)

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