We are looking for candidates who possess a keen interest in pursuing a career in the area of machine learning and data science. We believe that candidates can come from any area of specialization, and the eligibility and requirements are as follows:
- Who Can Apply
- Singapore citizens only
- NITEC, Diploma or Degree holders from a recognized Institute of Higher Learning (IHL)
- Eligible for TeSA CLT Funding
- Knowledge and Proficiency Requirements
- Intermediate programming experience in one of these languages: Python, R, Scala, Java, C, C++, C#, Go
- Understand basic data pre-processing (handling missing data, outliers, etc…)
- Able to build machine learning models
- Able to build data pipeline to train and build your models
- Able to perform basic code documentation (Readme, docstrings and requirements.txt)
- Able to deploy your models in Docker containers
- Able to provision and use cloud computing infrastructure such as Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or AWS
- Able to do Linux shell scripting
- Able to use at least one of the following database and data processing technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, Apache Hadoop and/or Apache Spark
- Able to use GitHub/GitLab and perform proper code check-in/out and repository
Beyond that, we are looking for candidates who are self-directed, independent learners, good problem solvers, and work well in teams. Selection is competitive and the above are more likely our minimum requirements. Please review this article for more information.
