Graduate Research Intern - Buildings (Summer 2026)

Learning begins in the classroom but there’s no better place to gain real-world experience than with Stantec. Interns are an integral part of our teams, working to solve some of the world's most complex challenges.

As an intern, you’ll work alongside our experienced practitioners and with our clients and communities. This hands-on experience will equip you with practical skills, build your network, and provide opportunities that set you up for success.

Your Opportunity:

The Human Building Interaction (HBI) team explores how design influences human experiences-well-being, productivity, and daily interactions-across the physical space, specifically educational, residential, and workplace settings. We apply immersive technologies and mixed methods research to produce evidence-based insights that inform design outcomes.

We are seeking a graduate student with strong technical and analytical capabilities to join us in developing a data analysis pipeline that supports cutting-edge research in sectors such as education, healthcare, and workplace design. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to projects that:

• Examine how workplace environments impact productivity and well-being.

• Evaluate the inclusiveness of educational settings for neurodiverse learners.

• Assess sensory accessibility and community integration for Deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

This internship provides a unique opportunity to support impactful, real-world research in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and implement workflows for data organization, integration, and analysis across multimodal datasets.

• Perform statistical analysis, including hypothesis testing, correlation analysis, and regression modeling.

• Work with physiological, environmental, and behavioral data streams, integrating them with qualitative inputs such as surveys and interviews.

• Automate data workflows, leveraging APIs and other integration techniques to streamline analysis

• Develop a scalable pipeline for multimodal data integration and analysis to support ongoing and future research projects.

• Create visualizations and summaries to communicate the findings effectively.

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to generate actionable insights and recommendations.

Capabilities and Credentials:

• Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis and workflow automation.

• Strong foundation in statistical analysis, including time-series and multivariate methods.

• Experience cleaning and processing large, multi-source timeseries datasets, example physiological, and environmental data.

• Familiarity with API-based data collection and integration from third-party platforms.

• Ability to build and maintain automated pipelines using tools such as VS Code, Jupyter Notebooks, and version control (Git)

• Strong data visualization skills using tools such as Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, ggplot2 or similar for creating time series plots, multi-panel comparisons, and interactive dashboards.

• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented fast-paced research setting.

Education and Experience:

Applicants should be enrolled in a graduate program in one of the following (or a related) fields:

• Data Science or Computer Science (technical data processing, automation).

• Biomedical Engineering or Cognitive Science (physiological and behavioral data analysis).

• Other fields with a focus on quantitative methods and interdisciplinary research.

Typical office environment working with computers and sitting at a desk. Some assignments may be suitable to perform in a work from home situation if approved by supervisor. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather. Compliance with Stantec’s HSSE program is required.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Pay Range:

• $29.60 - $35.52 Hourly

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Primary Location: United States | NY | New York
Organization: BC-4017 Buildings-US Acquisition PSP National
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 01/06/2026 08:06:48
Req ID: 1006143

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