Velera, a nation's premier payments credit union service organization, is looking to solve business and technical problems in the financial technology space by hiring a data science intern to work on challenging problems and bring innovation to the team.
Requirements
- Experience with big data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake preferred
- SQL skills
- Understanding of ML algorithms such as XGBoost, DBScan, LSTMs, etc.
- Understanding of Generative AI models such as GANs, LLMs, etc.
- Proficiency in one of the following programming languages: R, Python, Scala
- Experience with open source development tools (e.g., Git, PyCharm, Maven)
- Experience developing in notebook environments
Responsibilities
- Support efforts to collect, clean, and validate data
- Contribute to quantitative and/or qualitative analysis using statistical techniques and methods
- Contribute to the training and testing of machine learning models
- Analyze and visualize data for presentation to key stakeholders
Other
- Completion of sophomore or junior year in an accredited undergraduate degree program with a 3.0/4.0 GPA at time of application
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to coordinate thoughts, communicate, completely, and concisely
- Strong, organizational, and detail skills, with the ability to consistently perform as business requests
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to adjust easily when directions and priorities change on short notice
