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AI Engineer Intern – Undergrad

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It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

The Role

Proofpoint’s Data Classification team in Singapore is looking for an AI Engineer Intern to work on our state-of-the-art Machine Learning and NLP solutions. You’ll get to work on exciting data science projects, focusing on improving our current solutions through research tasks, optimization, and deployment to production. Our engineers steer and influence the future success and growth of our company. We are nimble, dynamic, and move fast. We are looking for team-players that take a creative, analytical approach to solve complex technical challenges.

As an AI Engineer Intern, some examples of ongoing projects that you could work on

  • Accurate and scalable classification of millions of documents from few labelled examples.
  • Keywords extraction that best describes a group of documents compared to other groups.

Through the multiple projects you will work on, we will help you to establish a thorough research process leading to results across the different stages of a data science pipeline.

  • Get involved in a project technical design
  • Benchmark different solutions and analyse the performance of various approaches
  • Build AI pipelines from scratch and communicate to all stakeholders on the outcomes
  • Work closely with other engineers to support the deployment and release of new projects/integrations
  • Optimize existing code and resource usage
  • Participate in the team's weekly meetings and brainstorming

Your focus will vary depending on the project's emphasis, whether it is research-oriented or implementation-oriented.

Qualifications

Technical skills and qualification

  • Advanced knowledge in Machine Learning, NLP and Statistics
  • Strong programming skills in Python
  • Experience working with Unix
  • Comfortable with Git for version control
  • Experience in Cloud System (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus
  • Experience with distributed system (Spark, PySpark, Hadoop) is a plus
  • Knowledge of functional programming is a plus

Soft Skills

While it is essential that you bring efficient and effective behaviour to increase the productivity of the organization, is it also critical that you retain the creative spark that drives our team’s vision and values. Therefore, we expect

  • Good oral and written English communication skills
  • Able to collaboratively solve problem and contribute ideas to the core team
  • Can work independently and thrives with autonomy
  • Proactive and interested in data security and governance

Candidate Profile

You have the ability and interest to work full-time (a maximum of 40 hours/week) in our Singapore office. You are currently pursuing an undergraduate degree and are in good standing.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!