Loka

Data and Machine Learning Intern

Loka · Colombia
Colombia Intern Posted 2026-09-22
Type
Internship
Experience
0-1 yr

Duration: Six months

Format: Full time (40 hrs/week), paid

In the last year at Loka, our teams launched almost 200 GenAI projects for companies of all kinds, including the world’s Number 1 GenAI reading tutor, a startup that transforms homes into batteries and a leading cancer-fighting laboratory. And we did it all while enjoying every other Friday off 😎

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

The Role

  • Assist in designing, developing and maintaining data pipelines to ensure clean, reliable and timely data.
  • Collaborate with the team to implement and optimize ETL processes.
  • 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 develop models that help achieve them, plus metrics to track their progress.
  • Implement ML systems using classical ML, DL and Foundation Models following best practices.
  • Participate in client communications by helping gather requirements and communicate deliverables.
  • Explore and visualize data with a careful eye for issues that require data cleaning as well as differences in data distribution that may affect performance after deployment.
  • Identify and analyze model errors.

Required Hard Skills

  • Last year of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related
  • Proficient in English
  • Basic knowledge of Python, ML, and Data libraries
  • Basic knowledge of Databases
  • Understanding of statistical, ML and deep learning algorithms
  • Experience visualizing and manipulating big datasets
  • Problem solving
  • Bonus: AWS knowledge, (Py)Spark, Airflow, Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Required Soft Skills

  • Curiosity: You’re ambitious to learn and grow in different industries utilizing a modern tech stack.
  • Autonomy and positivity: We’re a fully remote, globally distributed team.
  • Teamwork: Enjoy a collaborative approach.
  • Adaptability: 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
  • Health Bonus
  • Remote and flexible
  • Paid sick days and local holidays

Please submit your CV in English.

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