Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Colombia
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
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.
- 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.
- Role:
- Data and Machine Learning Intern
Company profile
Loka, Inc
loka.comLoka, Inc. advises and builds digital products, helping clients turn ideas into market-ready products faster. Its services cover AI and machine learning development, data services, DevOps, cloud services, app development, and consulting for healthcare and life sciences, with AWS specialists on staff. Loka has worked on hard problems since 2004, beginning as a Silicon Valley startup, and its name comes from a Sanskrit word reflecting scale and possibility.
- Founded
- 2004