Company Description

We’re one of the top software companies in Ukraine with offices all around the world. One of our biggest values is to help young technicians to grow, regardless of your experience and age. We’re looking for talented teammates, who are willing to deepen their knowledge, develop their experience with real projects & work with our top engineers from the first weeks of internship. 

From the first weeks in our company, you’ll get a mentor, who will be helping with the education program overview, project tasks overview and will help you in case of any programming deadlocks. We will also provide you with all necessary, including hardware, educational courses, certification programs, free access to cloud infrastructure, friendly working environment, possibilities to work from our comfortable offices or from home. 

Job Description

We treat every intern as a future Senior Developers. Thereby, responsibilities on your first position in Sigma Software will be: 

• Working on internal project on ML and software development tasks mainly in NLP area; 

• Picking up hard skills following 2-6 months training program, created together with the mentor’s supervision; 

• Brushing up on your soft skills, including communication, listening, self-organization, problem solving, searching abilities, presentation skills, emotional intelligence & motivation; 

• Improving your English language skills; 

• Obtaining the hard & soft skills, that are necessary to get the Junior ML Engineer position (according to our internal Skills Grade Matrix); 

• Follow company policies regarding to time schedules, regulations, and security; 

• Participate in your team activities, such as knowledge sharing, brainstorm sessions, team buildings, helping others, etc.; 

• Analyze functional and non-functional requirements, clarify with stakeholders if required; 

• Complete your first internal project with mentor’s supervision. 

Qualifications

• Studies in University or finishes a BSc or MSc diploma from the IT or math fields or proven/presentable self-study with online courses and pet-projects; 

• Has proven experience with Python; 

• Knows the fundamentals of algorithms and data structures, SQL databases, fundamentals of Machine Learning; 

• Basics of Pandas, NumPy or similar libraries; 

• Nice to have basic knowledge in NLP / text processing domain; 

• Experience with the following tools: Git, nice to have experience with task tracking system like Jira; 

• Has clear and effective written and verbal communication skills; 

• At least Intermediate level of English. 

Personal profile

• Analytical mindset; 

• Attention to details; 

• Good communication & problem-solving skills; 

• Adaptability & Continuous learning; 

• Interested in DS/ML developments and follows trends, articles; 

• Preferably has presentable work like pet-projects or competitions like Kaggle, hackathons.