Data and Machine Learning Intern

Duration: Six months

Format: Full time (40 hrs/week), paid

In the last year at Loka, our teams launched almost 200 GenAI projects for companies of all kinds, including the world’s Number 1 GenAI reading tutor, a startup that transforms homes into batteries and a leading cancer-fighting laboratory. And we did it all while enjoying every other Friday off 😎

As a Data - Machine Learning Intern, you'll gain professional experience supporting Loka’s certified specialists, technical experts and PhDs while elevating your skillset, building a portfolio and launching projects you’re proud of.

The Role

- Assist in designing, developing and maintaining data pipelines to ensure clean, reliable and timely data.

- Collaborate with the team to implement and optimize ETL processes.

- Integrate data from various sources into warehouses, data lakes and lakehouses.

- Support data management tasks, including data cleaning, validation and transformation.

- Understand business objectives and develop models that help achieve them, plus metrics to track their progress.

- Implement ML systems using classical ML, DL and Foundation Models following best practices.

- Participate in client communications by helping gather requirements and communicate deliverables.

- Explore and visualize data with a careful eye for issues that require data cleaning as well as differences in data distribution that may affect performance after deployment.

- Identify and analyze model errors.

Required Hard Skills

- Last year of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

- Proficient in English

- Basic knowledge of Python, ML, and Data libraries

- Basic knowledge of Databases

- Understanding of statistical, ML and deep learning algorithms

- Experience visualizing and manipulating big datasets

- Problem solving

- Bonus: AWS knowledge, (Py)Spark, Airflow, Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Required Soft Skills

- Curiosity: You’re ambitious to learn and grow in different industries utilizing a modern tech stack.

- Autonomy and positivity: We’re a fully remote, globally distributed team.

- Teamwork: Enjoy a collaborative approach.

- Adaptability: Operate with a startup mindset and move at a startup pace.

- Dependable: You can be trusted to deliver high-quality work.

Benefits

- Every other Friday off

- Health Bonus

- Remote and flexible

- Paid sick days and local holidays

Please submit your CV in English.