Loka

Data and Machine Learning Intern

Loka  •  Colombia, CO (Remote)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

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.

Loka

About Loka

Loka is a Silicon Valley software consultancy with global impact, bringing innovations to market faster since 2004. We connect clients in high-precision industries like Healthcare, Life Sciences, Education and Logistics to the tech that empowers their most effective work. We believe what you develop matters and bet you do too.

In 2024 AWS named Loka Innovation Partner of the Year—the same year in which we achieved AWS Premier Tier and were named part of AWS’s inaugural Generative AI Competency class. In the 18 months prior we identified more than 200 GenAI use cases for clients ranging from Cameo to Blue Cross Blue Shield. After two decades based in the Valley, Loka operates at the bleeding edge of AI, ML, DevOps, Data and Design—and is being recognized by the most authoritative sources in the tech world.

Whether building chatbots trained on proprietary data, developing apps to hyper-specific brand requirements or helping biotech companies accelerate novel drugs to eradicate cancer, our full-cycle team of engineers, developers and designers find the solutions that fit our clients’ unique needs and steer them away from the ones that don’t. We work around the clock (literally—we count employees in 18 different countries across seven time zones) but take every other Friday off to recharge. Our Explore and Relo programs encourage Lokals to live and work in rising tech hubs around the world, igniting their curiosity and imbuing their output with global perspective. We are small but mighty, fully remote but fully engaged and always Monday ready.

If you’re a founder or leader, we can help you grow. And if you’re a talented engineer seeking an unconventional but high-achieving workplace, we’d love to work with you.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Year Founded
2004
Website
loka.com
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