Data Science Intern: ML, NLP & Big Data Insights

Tencent; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tencent invites specialists to advance machine learning, deep learning and data mining across large-scale user data. The role focuses on building and evaluating AI-driven strategies, with emphasis on improving user understanding and retention through NLP, sentiment analysis and summarization.

Ideal candidates bring a strong ML background, programming skills and experience with big data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark and Hive, plus a track record in research and collaboration in fast-paced

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in statistical models and ML principles, with experience in data mining projects.
• Proficiency in ML, DL and recommendation algorithms; knowledge of clustering/classification is valued.
• Experience with NLP tasks such as sentiment analysis, text summarization, or LLM fine-tuning is preferred.
• Strong programming ability and understanding of data structures/algorithms.
• Research experience, including academic publications, is a plus.
• Experience with big data and distributed computation frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, Hive) is desirable.
• Excellent logical thinking, communication skills and business understanding; familiarity with game contexts is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Research on state-of-the-art machine learning, deep learning, social-network data mining and recommendation algorithms for online AI serving.
• Perform in-depth statistical analysis on large-scale data to mine user behavior and attributes.
• Conduct sentiment analysis, topic modeling and summarization on massive user comments.
• Identify user pain points and propose strategies to improve user retention.
• Improve data analysis pipelines by combining business requirements with data, using distributed computation platforms; develop efficient data mining solutions.
• Research AI agents to upgrade existing data processing pipelines.

Skills

Statistical models

Machine learning

Data mining

NLP

Programming

Research experience

Deep learning

Recommendation algorithms

Big data

Hadoop

Spark

Hive

Communication skills

Game context understanding

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Hive

Job description

Tencent invites specialists to advance machine learning, deep learning and data mining across large-scale user data. The role focuses on building and evaluating AI-driven strategies, with emphasis on improving user understanding and retention through NLP, sentiment analysis and summarization.

Ideal candidates bring a strong ML background, programming skills and experience with big data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark and Hive, plus a track record in research and collaboration in fast-paced