Data Engineering Intern: Snowflake & AI Data Pipelines (unpaid Internship - open to undergraduate students)

Risk Insights Media publishes security news and industry data for executives. They are seeking a Data Engineering Intern to assist in designing and implementing data pipelines focused on Snowflake and AI-driven data processes.

Responsibilities:

• Building data pipelines to extract and structure company data from a variety of public sources
• Working within Snowflake to clean, transform, model, and validate incoming data
• Helping connect AI tools to our Snowflake data using Snowflake's Cortex Agents MCP server
• Automating research and enrichment processes for internal datasets
• Helping debug pipeline issues and improve reliability and speed

Requirements:

• enjoy figuring things out with incomplete information, and know how to ask great clarifying questions
• communicate clearly and are comfortable asking for help or pushing back when needed
• are familiar with Python and common data libraries (Pandas, Requests, BeautifulSoup, etc.)
• have exposure to a cloud-based data platform like Snowflake
• have experience with APIs, scraping, or workflow tools like Airflow
• are detail-oriented but not paralyzed by imperfection — you balance speed and accuracy
• knowledge of relational databases or data warehousing concepts
• experience working with real-world, messy datasets
• familiarity with data scraping, ETL, or API integration
• curiosity about MCP (Model Context Protocol) or connecting AI tools to structured data