Belgium Campus Internship - Data Scientist

 

Recruiter:

IOCO

Job Ref:

iOCO00947

Date posted:

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable


SUMMARY:
The Role:

We are looking for Belgium Campus Graduates to join our company for a 1-year internship program.

During this time, Interns will be included in the day to day operations of the Business Unit they were successfully appointed.

Essential Function:


    POSITION INFO:
    The Role:

    We are looking for Belgium Campus Graduates to join our company for a 1-year internship program.

    During this time, Interns will be included in the day to day operations of the Business Unit they were successfully appointed.

    Essential Function:

    • Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
    • Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
    • Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
    • Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
    • Assemble and compose business-centric processes using off-the-shelf public cloud services.
    • Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.
    • Use MLOps frameworks to deliver enterprise-grade predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions, based on multiple model performance assessment techniques, validations and statistically rigorous methodologies.
    • Coordinate with different functional teams , manage features, experiments and model selection processes as part of MLOps delivery projects.
    • Write presentations describing AI and ML project design, methodologies, results and outcomes.
    Skills and Experience:

    Essential Qualifications:

    • Matric mathematics
    • BCOM Computer Science

    Preferred Qualification:

    • Any tertiary qualification or any certification would be a plus. Data science courses a definite plus.
    • Kaggle, Zindi or similar entry and subsequent leaderboard improvement
    • A software code repository you can walk us through in Python, R or any other code you enjoy using
    • A public cloud project demonstrating your AI and ML capabilities

    Experience Required:

    • Delivering ML or systems models experience: Any
    • Leading teams: Any
    • Project experience: Any experience working with a team to solve a data-intensive problem.
    • Other experience:
      • How many years have you been writing software code, of any description?
      • Which tech project that you built makes you most proud?
    Key Accountabilities:
    • An ability to solve problems in Python or R, in Jupyter Notebook or VSCode or the IDE of your choice
    • The scientific method, with the ability to describe how you would conduct a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial
    • Ability to describe statistical concepts like probability, mean, data distributions, sampling
    • A deep understanding of and ability to explain bias, whether it be historic, sample, confirmation bias or others
    • Ability to deploy models in different configurations
    • A description of ways in which you have improved a model after training it
    • Do you have your own way to explore data, design for outcomes and then use your skills to deploy a solution?
    • Do you have any mathematics, science, software or technology fields which are your particular favourites?
    • Do you have any data science or technology heroes you look up to?
    • Do you have any technology or data science people you feel could do better?


     

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