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Proofpoint AI Engineer Intern – Undergrad in Singapore
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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!
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Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.