Passionate Academics are the Future - but 1 in 5 academics does not have a job 1 year after graduation and 1 in 6 is working in a job they are overqualified for. That's straight-up just not good enough. Too many bright graduates are not achieving their dreams, but we are here to make it happen. Therefore, we have built a platform where students can list their master thesis topic and companies can find the right student group for the perfect thesis collaboration match.
Excelerate is in the early days of the startup journey. We launched our website in October 2020, our blog in February 2021 and we are very excited about it. :)
We have a great marketing team focusing on social media, PR and offline marketing, however, we are in need of a Machine Learning / NLP intern, who would support our development efforts. You get the chance to join a startup from the very early days and that also implies that you will get a lot of responsibility. At the moment, we have a CEO and 5 employees.
We have a specific project within Excelerate that you will be owning and you will be introduced to this from the first meeting. It will consist of different parts:
Setup a scraper/crawler to fetch data from a range of websites
Store the data
Cleanup the data for ML
Create a training set/test set
Build the ML model
Measure effectiveness of the model
Write documentation on what you have done
An important thing to note is that you will be the most knowledgeable person within the ML area in the company. You work will be fairly standalone, however, the data will be displayed on our website and that task will be handle by our external dev team. But everything else in between is your work :)
‘Always be learning’ mindset
A curious mind
Independent work ethics
Proficient with GitHub (or willingness to learn)
Development language which can get the job done :) it's up to you.
Bonus points (big ones) if you are familiar with Vue.js, Google Firestore, Google Firebase.
Planning how to achieve the project goal
Executing the plan
Improving the results
We are looking for someone who is hungry/eager to join Excelerate and who thinks the mission sounds amazing. You are excited to join a startup with all the freedom and responsibilities and hard work that comes along with it. We would like you to join us for at least 3 months (approx. 15 hours a week).
Fluency in the English language is a requirement but we couldn't care less about nationality/gender/age. It's all about personality and the right fit between us.
We are currently working from our office in Copenhagen, on Strandlodsvej 44, 3 sal (a co-working space), we would expect you to be working from this location as well (however, we offer some flexibility regarding working from home because of the corona situation).
If this has piqued your interest I suggest we take an informal cup of coffee where you can hear more about the company.
Please make sure to show us what you can do with ML - we would love to see examples of what you have built. Add links/description to the message.
Thanks for reading this far :)
Kaspar Hansen
CEO and Founder of Excelerate
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasparhansen/
This job comes with several perks and benefits
Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.
Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.
Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.
Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.
Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.
Your local office is your anchor point, thus, we placed it centrally at your convenience.