Job Description

Founded in 2014, InstaDeep, a leader in cutting-edge decision-making AI solutions, is revolutionising industries across the EMEA region. With offices strategically located in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Lagos, Cape Town, Boston, and San Francisco, InstaDeep is at the forefront of the AI revolution.

At InstaDeep, we foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, empowering our talented team to tackle complex challenges using state-of-the-art technologies. By partnering closely with diverse enterprise clients, we consistently deliver groundbreaking solutions for the most intricate industrial problems.

Our recent acquisition by BioNTech has further solidified our commitment to leading the industry. We have formed strategic partnerships with global giants like Google DeepMind and prestigious educational institutions such as MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London. These collaborations allow us to leverage an extensive network, driving continuous innovation and maintaining our competitive edge. As a Google Cloud Partner and one of a select few NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partners, we have established ourselves as trusted technical and implementation experts.

InstaDeep's excellence has been recognised consistently by industry experts. We have been listed among notable players in AI, fast-growing companies, and Europe's 1000 fastest-growing companies in 2022 by Statista and the Financial Times. Additionally, we secured a place on CB Insights' AI 100 ranking for three consecutive years. These accolades underscore our exceptional growth trajectory and position us alongside other renowned businesses in the industry.

Join us as we continue on our journey to transform industries, push the boundaries of AI innovation, and deliver unparalleled value to our clients.

InstaDeep is looking for a new Research Intern to join our expanding Research team in Cape Town. Our research focuses on Reinforcement Learning with topics of interest including population-based methods, combinatorial optimisation, meta-learning, language models and multi-agent systems. Our efforts are towards developing valuable research breakthroughs in RL that were previously out of reach. In the Research team, the role of a Research Intern is to contribute to the team's research efforts through the development and implementation of novel ideas, whilst building effective, modular and sustainable software solutions. The core tasks of a Research Intern include: developing prototype applications, providing programming support to research projects, implementing software libraries, running experiments, and contributing to InstaDeep's publication efforts. We welcome applications from any background and foster an open and accepting environment. InstaDeepers are naturally helpful people who want to help others grow and succeed. We strongly encourage and support applications from underrepresented groups in the tech industry.

Responsibilities

• Implement and develop novel algorithms and research ideas in fields such as machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning.
• Contribute to our publication efforts.
• Encourage and support good engineering practices as research is translated into reusable and maintainable code.
• Report and present experimental results and research findings clearly and efficiently, both internally and externally, verbally and in writing. From time to time, collaborate with the team in representing InstaDeep at conferences and events.

Minimum Requirements

• Work permit for South Africa.
• Either already obtained or currently working towards a postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related scientific field.
• Experience in developing and debugging in Python or similar languages.
• Experience using machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, and/or Jax.

Nice-To-Haves

• Research and software engineering experience demonstrated via previous experience, contributions to open-source software, or coding competitions.
• Proven ability to contribute to research communities and/or efforts, including publishing scientific papers at conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.) and/or workshops.

Our commitment to our people

We empower individuals to celebrate their uniqueness here at InstaDeep. Our team comes from all walks of life, and we're proud to continue encouraging and supporting applicants from underrepresented groups across the globe. Our commitment to creating an authentic environment comes from our ability to learn and grow from our diversity, and how better to experience this than by joining our team? We operate on a hybrid work model with guidance to work at the office at least 2 to 3 days per week to encourage close collaboration and innovation. We are continuing to review the situation with the well-being of InstaDeepers at the forefront of our minds.

Right to work: Please note that you will require the legal right to work in the location you are applying for.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: talent@instadeep.com

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