Associate Machine Learning Developer (Part-time)

at  AltaML

ABOUT US:

AltaML is a leading North American applied AI company with extensive experience in building and operationalizing AI solutions. We call our business model Invent and Studio, from industry agnostic to industry focused, which encompasses focus and domain expertise combined with an ability to understand workflows and how to get to generalizability with data. AltaML has multiple functional disciplines and joint ventures.
We are a company like no other – we believe in making small bets, failing fast, and being better together. We are looking for creative problem-solvers who obsess about the customer to find wins across different industries.
We don’t hire for fit; we hire to add. We are looking for people who play our core values of being: Agile, Gritty Humble, and Happy. If you’re passionate about AI/ML, thrive in a dynamic environment, and want to work with a diverse team of wickedly smart people, we want to hear from you!

JOB ROLE:

As Associate Machine Learning Developer and a member of the Data Science team, you play a crucial role in making sure we deliver value to customers through delivering high quality AI/ML solutions to their business problems. You will work under supervision with multiple tools and gain experience in multiple AI/ML fields. You will learn and follow our process of developing ML models and will be given resources and mentorship to help with your growth and career advancement.
This would be a part-time 6-month paid internship opportunity starting October 2024 and ending in March 2024.
Office as a Resource & Participating Universities: This opportunity is currently open to anyone that is currently enrolled at the U of Alberta, U of Calgary, U Waterloo, U of Toronto, Queens U. As this is a Mitacs funded opportunity, please reach out if you have questions regarding your eligibility. While we have offices in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, and Waterloo we use our offices as a resource and are open to remote candidates.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Participate in team planning sessions and educational presentations
• Review the data to understand its overall scope and structure
• Identifying the right metric to measure the success of the model and project
• Work in teams to pre-process the data for analysis and model development
• Uncover trends, insights, and key features to help guide where ML solutions can be applied
• Develop models around the available data and suggested set of problems
• For viable use cases develop proof of concept working models
• Suggest and explore novel solutions to a problem and detailed recommendations for how to integrate the models in business
• Communicating and presenting your teams work to AltaML and Public Sector Partners
• Get familiarity with various data processing tools and exposure to AI/ML algorithms
• Independently researching and connecting with your cohort to gain domain knowledge and learn state-of-the-art techniques