Machine Learning / NLP Intern

Salary Unpaid

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.

 

Current status

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.

 

What you will be doing:

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 :)


Requirements: 

  • ‘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.


Responsibilities: 

  • Planning how to achieve the project goal

  • Executing the plan

  • Improving the results


Are you the perfect candidate?

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.


When you apply

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/

For more information or questions please contact us at kaspar@excelerate.careers or phone number 004560551673

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

Central office
Central office

Your local office is your anchor point, thus, we placed it centrally at your convenience.

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Working at
Excelerate

I Danmark har vi et par kedelige statistiker, 1 ud af 6 akademikere har ikke et job et år efter endt uddannelse, og af dem der har et job, er 1 ud af 5 i et job de er overkvalificeret til. Samtidig har der aldrig været en større jagt efter nye talenter. Men jagten kommer med en pris, oftere rammer virksomhederne simpelthen forkert. Randstad har regnet ud af det i snit koster 500.000 kr at skifte en akademiker ud på en dansk arbejdsplads. Det er rasende dyrt at hyre den forkert medarbejder. Vi er Excelerate og vi har en løsning der kan sænke arbejdsløsheden blandt nyuddannede akademikere, samt spare virksomheder for både tid og penge når de skal hyre nyuddannede akademikere. Løsningen er en platform der matcher universitetsstuderende på deres sidste år af uddannelsen med virksomheder med henblik på speciale samarbejde. De studerende vil bruge platformen fordi vi gratis øger deres eksponering for potentielle speciale samarbejdsvirksomheder. Virksomhederne vil bruge platformen som et lead genererings værktøj til nemt og billigt at tage nye graduates ind. Excelerate opfylder enhver HR / hiring managers drøm : En ikke-comittende smagsprøve på hvordan en kommende medarbejdere er at arbejde sammen med. Det vil drastisk nedjustere antallet af bad hires, hvilket spare virksomheden for en masse penge, og vil hjælpe gevaldigt på churn raten.

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