Summer Intern 2026 - Data Science Engineer

This internship supports Manulife’s Retail Business. The team focuses on enabling our sales organization to make data-driven decisions through AI research, automation, and improved data accessibility.

You’ll gain exposure to how our retail business operates while sharpening your technical and analytical skill sets. Interns in this group play an active role in helping design tools and processes that make our sales teams more efficient and productive.

Role Overview

As a Data & AI Enablement Intern, you’ll collaborate with data engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to improve how we access, structure, and analyze sales data. You’ll also contribute to ongoing research exploring how AI can support sales enablement—translating technical concepts into practical business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Support projects focused on data structuring and insight generation to help sales teams make better business decisions.
• Learn to query and manipulate data using SQL and other tools within Databricks and related platforms.
• Participate in AI research initiatives focused on productivity and efficiency across the retail sales organization.
• Assist with data engineering tasks, including identifying and resolving data quality or accessibility issues.
• Help bridge the gap between technical and business teams by interpreting data results and AI outputs.

What You’ll Learn

• How large organizations use data and AI to improve sales strategy and customer engagement.
• How to work with data pipelines, modeling, and automation in a real-world business environment.
• The fundamentals of translating AI results into actionable insights—no heavy coding required, but comfort parsing and understanding code is helpful.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree students (rising juniors or seniors) in Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics, Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Familiarity with SQL and interest in learning data engineering concepts.
• Curiosity about AI applications and the business impact of emerging technologies.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Comfort working in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact recruitment@manulife.com.

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

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Company: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.)

Manulife Financial Corporation provides financial protection products and investment management services to individuals, families, businesses, and groups. The Company conducts operations in Canada, the United States, and Asia, as well as reinsurance operations on a global basis. Manulife offers products such as annuities, pension products, life insurance, health insurance, and mutual funds.