Machine Learning Engineer Intern (paid) - Summer 2018

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Company Overview

Infutor Data Solutions the expert in Consumer Identity Management. We are 100% focused on enabling brands to know everything they need to about consumers, to instantly make informed marketing and risk decisions. Infutor’s experience linking trusted data sources result in solutions that:

  •  Identify, verify and score inbound consumers, on-demand, with as little as a single identifier.
  •  Link customer data, update/add missing identifiers and enhanced attributes.
  •  Enable improved digital marketing performance through higher match rates and complete insights.

Infutor gives brands a secure, privacy compliant foundation to improve inbound engagements and outbound marketing reach, and to minimize fraud and collections risk.

Infutor was formed in 2003, as a compiler of mass telephone and referential data assets. Since then, Infutor Data Solutions has grown into a full-service provider, producing world-class data solutions, which empower businesses to make critical, strategic decisions. In 2016, Infutor received a large strategic investment led by the growth equity team at Norwest Venture Partners, a global multi-stage investment firm with more than $6 billion in capital under management.

Infutor’s headquarters are located in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. with offices in Fort Myers, FL., and San Rafael de Escazú, Costa Rica.

MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER INTERN (paid internship)

Job Summary

A Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Infutor helps the data engineering team realize its mission through various on-going and one-time projects. These projects have a significant impact on our business functions, both large and small in scale.

Responsibilities and Duties

As a Machine Learning Engineer Intern, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  • The deployment, optimization, and maintenance of data science models.
  • Creation of data pipelines, maintenance of infrastructure, and implementation of custom code. 
  • Creation of new and maintenance of existing data acquisition processes from inception to fully developed solutions.
  • At Infutor, machine learning engineers work in an Agile environment, so they need to fully understand and follow the principles stated in the Agile Manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html).
  • Depending on the project, works on self-organized teams or by themselves.

Qualifications and Skills

In order to be successful in this role, a person should be willing to learn and become a subject matter expert in the near future. The intern should be self-motivated, have a can do attitude, and be intellectually curious. Additionally, we seek the following skills and attributes--

Required:

  • Be actively pursuing a college degree in computer science, predictive analytics, or similar.
  • Graduate-level knowledge of statistics and statistical analysis.
  • Be able to write, design, code, test, implement, and debug programs.
  • Manage data sources, organize data, and create data assets using a variety of tools like Python, Scala, R, Javascript, Hadoop, SQL, and, Amazon Web Services.
  • Familiar with Agile principles.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • 3-4 month commitment.
  • Ability to work 20 -40 hours/week during the summer break.

Desirable:

  • Knowledge or experience in software design and development.
  • Patterns knowledge.
  • Unit Test knowledge.
  • Familiar with G Suite for business use.
  • Previous internship experience or experience working in an office environment.

Big plus:

  • Amazon web services knowledge
  • Knowledge of Scala programming language
  • Coursework in Hadoop theory and applications.
  • Ability to maintain part-time employment or work full-time over the summer break.

Benefits and Perks 

  • Gain critical, hands-on experience in Machine Learning and Data Engineering
  • Learn from the Consumer Identity Management experts
  • Develop solutions and strategies that solve real business problems
  • Exposure to executive leadership
  • Work with cross-functional teams in the US and Costa Rica
  • Experience first-hand working in a growing, “start-up” environment
  • Potential for full-time employment
  • Free fitness facility on-site
  • Company sponsored events and much more!
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Located in metro Chicago, in the heart of Oakbrook's business district, surrounded by shopping malls and great restaurants.

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