[Hiring] Data Engineering Intern @Loka, Inc

Role Description

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

• Assist in designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines to ensure clean, reliable, and timely data.
• Collaborate with the team to implement and optimize ETL pipelines.
• 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 help develop data models that support them, along with metrics to track progress.
• Participate in client communications by helping gather requirements and communicate deliverables.
• Explore and visualize data with a careful eye for issues that require cleaning, as well as differences in data distribution that may affect performance after deployment.
• Identify data quality issues and opportunities to improve the codebase.

Qualifications

• Proficient in English.
• Basic knowledge of Python and data libraries.
• Basic knowledge of SQL and database engines.
• Experience visualizing and manipulating datasets.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Bonus: AWS knowledge, (Py)Spark, Airflow, data lakes and data warehouses, git.

Requirements

• Excellent English, we work entirely in English for meetings, client calls, and business communications.
• CV submitted in English.

Personality Profile

• Curious: You're ambitious to learn and grow in different industries using a modern tech stack.
• Autonomous and positive: You excel in a fully remote, globally distributed team.
• Team player: You enjoy a collaborative approach.
• Adaptable: You 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
• Remote and flexible
• Paid sick days and local holidays
• Fitness subscription