# Data and Machine Learning Intern at Loka, Inc

Data and Machine Learning Intern at Loka, Inc in Colombia. Remote, internship. Posted March 10, 2025.

- Company: Loka, Inc
- Location: Colombia
- Workplace: Remote
- Job type: Internship
- Posted: 2025-03-10
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lokainc/jobs/4673500007
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/data-and-machine-learning-intern-loka-inc-zq2c57

## Description

**Duration:** Six months

**Format:** Full time (40 hrs/week), paid

In the last year at Loka, our teams launched almost 200 GenAI projects for companies of all kinds, including the world’s Number 1 GenAI reading tutor, a startup that transforms homes into batteries and a leading cancer-fighting laboratory. And we did it all while enjoying every other Friday off 😎

As a Data - Machine Learning Intern, you'll gain professional experience supporting Loka’s certified specialists, technical experts and PhDs while elevating your skillset, building a portfolio and launching projects you’re proud of.

**The Role**

- Assist in designing, developing and maintaining data pipelines to ensure clean, reliable and timely data.

- Collaborate with the team to implement and optimize ETL processes.

- Integrate data from various sources into warehouses, data lakes and lakehouses.

- Support data management tasks, including data cleaning, validation and transformation.

- Understand business objectives and develop models that help achieve them, plus metrics to track their progress.

- Implement ML systems using classical ML, DL and Foundation Models following best practices.

- Participate in client communications by helping gather requirements and communicate deliverables.

- Explore and visualize data with a careful eye for issues that require data cleaning as well as differences in data distribution that may affect performance after deployment.

- Identify and analyze model errors.

 

**Required Hard Skills**

- Last year of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

- Proficient in English

- Basic knowledge of Python, ML, and Data libraries

- Basic knowledge of Databases

- Understanding of statistical, ML and deep learning algorithms

- Experience visualizing and manipulating big datasets

- Problem solving

- Bonus: AWS knowledge, (Py)Spark, Airflow, Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

**Required Soft Skills**

- Curiosity: You’re ambitious to learn and grow in different industries utilizing a modern tech stack.

- Autonomy and positivity: We’re a fully remote, globally distributed team.

- Teamwork: Enjoy a collaborative approach.

- Adaptability: Operate with a startup mindset and move at a startup pace.

- Dependable: You can be trusted to deliver high-quality work.

**Benefits**

- Every other Friday off

- Health Bonus

- Remote and flexible

- Paid sick days and local holidays

 

**Please submit your CV in English. **