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Undergraduate Intern in AI and Survey Research, Pew Research Center Summer 2026

Washington, DC

Internship

Hybrid

Intern

$18.50/hr - $18.50/hr

Start in 2026 Summer

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about various issues and trends. The internship focuses on evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) in processing survey data, providing interns with hands-on experience in data management and analysis within a research environment.

AnalyticsConsumer ResearchSocial MediaSocial News

Culture & Values

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Responsibilities

Reviewing the Center’s back catalogue of surveys to find suitable open-ended questions for LLM analysis

Adapting qualitative coding instructions written for human coders as LLM prompts

Writing Python scripts to automate processing texts in batches with LLMs

Evaluating the classification accuracy of candidate models

Qualification

PythonAI/LLMsData analysisStatistical analysisCollaborative software developmentVersion controlQuality controlData management

Required

College students who are pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computational Social Science or a similar field, and have completed a minimum of two years (in other words, rising juniors and seniors)

Interest in the application of AI and modern LLMs to public opinion, polling and social science research

Experience programming in Python, especially working with enterprise LLM APIs and/or conducting data analysis

A cover letter highlighting your skills and training related to public opinion research. Describe why you are interested in an internship with Pew Research Center's survey design team. In addition, please discuss your professional aspirations and how this internship would align with your career trajectory. Please be sure to highlight your experience and proficiency with programing languages

A resume, which should include a listing of relevant course work, and any data analysis software used

Benefits

Modest relocation stipend

Company

Pew Research Center

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Pew Research Center is an American research firm that conducts research related to social issues, demographics, social trends, and more.

Founded in 2004

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

51-200 employees

http://pewresearch.org

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