Digital Place Vision Pte Ltd – R&D Intern

The team will be working on a machine learning project in the retail domain with focus on time series analysis / forecasting. Under guidance of full-time staff members, the intern will focus on:

1. Helping with machine learning model development. For example, identifying ways to improve the model design given business and operating requirements, running experiments to evaluate performance of model variants, and investigating circumstances in which a model performs poorly.

2. Helping to improve the overall software engineering process, for example, by automating certain tasks.

Required skills:

• Python, including data processing libraries such as pandas.
• Basic database concepts, such as joins, keys, index. Working knowledge of SQL
• Working knowledge of software engineering including algorithm complexity, usage of version control, and usage of issue tracking systems such as Jira.
• Working knowledge of time series analysis / forecasting including evaluation metrics, common algorithms, and trade-offs / pitfalls.
• Preferably some experience writing code that uses cloud services (GCP, AWS, or others)
• Preferably some understanding of Linux (from a user perspective).
• Ability to communicate in a polite and professional manner.
• Engineering mindset -- we want team member who:
• Works systematically and carefully to avoid causing problems down the road.
• Can seek and verify information independently.