Visa
Data Science Intern - Data and AI Team
USA internshipsAI/ML/DataNewPosted today
- Location
- Foster City, CA
- Type
- USA internships
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Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 11-06-2026
Visa’s Internship Program provides an immersive, 12-week journey where you’ll work on impactful projects that drive Visa’s mission forward. As a Visa intern, you’ll build valuable connections across the organization, sharpen your communication and business acumen, and gain hands-on experience in a dynamic, global environment.
Throughout the program, you’ll have exclusive access to interactive workshops and learning sessions designed to deepen your expertise, expand your industry knowledge, and elevate your professional skillset. You won’t just be learning, you’ll be contributing, collaborating, and innovating every step of the way. In addition to professional development, you’ll enjoy a variety of intern social events that foster community, connection, and fun throughout the summer
The experience culminates in an exciting final presentation, where you’ll showcase your project achievements, share key insights, and present your recommendations to Visa’s leaders and stakeholders. This is your chance to demonstrate your business impact, highlight your personal growth, and align your work with Visa’s vision for the future.
Data is central to Visa’s strategy, innovation, and long-term growth. Across the company, we are focused on using data responsibly to create value for consumers, businesses, clients, partners, and communities around the world. Guided by Visa’s Data Values and our commitment to trusted, responsible data use, Visa is continuing to expand its data capabilities, strengthen its data-driven products, and identify new ways to support the future of digital payments.
Visa’s Data & AI Team, led by the Chief Data Officer, plays a key role in advancing this work across the enterprise. The team owns strategic initiatives related to data business strategy, product development, investment priorities, governance, policy, and marketplace execution. In close partnership with the Chief Privacy Officer, Technology teams, business units, regional teams, and the broader Visa data community, the Data & AI Team drives high-impact efforts shaping how Visa uses data to drive innovation and deliver trusted solutions at scale
The Data & AI Team is seeking Data Science interns to help develop insights, analytical frameworks, and models that inform business strategy, product development, operational performance, and client outcomes. As an intern, you will work with cross-functional partners across data science, product, technology, data & analytics, privacy, governance, and regional and global business teams to apply data-driven approaches to complex business challenges.
In this role, you may support activities such as exploratory data analysis, feature development, statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, forecasting, performance measurement, and decision modeling. You will help translate data into actionable insights, evaluate opportunities and tradeoffs, and support model-informed decisions that improve products, platforms, customer experiences, and business outcomes.
This internship offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in data science and decision science within a global company. You will contribute to meaningful analytical and modeling initiatives, strengthen your technical and business skills, and help advance responsible, data-driven innovation across Visa’s global business.
All Visa roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
For roles located in the US, the estimated hourly rate is $46 to $55 USD. The hourly rate may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
Varies upon the needs of the department.
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.