Intern Data Scientist : NLP

QuantCube analyses billions of alternative data points in real time since 2013, using artificial intelligence and big data analytics to deliver insights ahead of the market – giving users an edge in their investment strategies.

Today we are the global leader in macroeconomic intelligence nowcasting and in pinpointing macro regime change. Our vision is to become the standard point of reference for macroeconomic, sector, corporate and environmental intelligence. By delivering timely, comprehensive and actionable economic insights we empower users within financial institutions, corporates and public bodies to reach their financial performance and sustainability goals.

Headquartered in Paris, QuantCube employs a diverse international team of economists, quant analysts and data scientists with expertise in multilingual NLP, deep learning and machine learning techniques. The company’s shareholders include Moody’s and Caisse des Dépôts and its R&D in computer vision has been partially funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and French government space agency CNES.

We are looking for passionate Data Scientists, looking to use and develop their NLP skills to create economic and financial alternative indicators to measure real time manufacturing activity, to estimate sovereign risk.

The internship would be starting in January 2024 (for 6 months).

Your mission will include:

• Taking part in Big Data projects in which you will use Machine Learning techniques, NLP and econometrics

• Develop a project from scratch to create alternative data indicators from structured and unstructured data, to estimate an economic indicator (like economic anxiety or reputation index …)

• Understand the indicator and explore the different factors affecting it

• Explore and assess the quality of available data sources, think about new use cases

What we offer:

You will have the opportunity during these assignments to quickly gain responsibility: to lead a project from A to Z from pre-processing to modelling; benefiting from weekly updates on the global economy ; to communicate directly with our IT and Data Science teams who are at the forefront of their field ; present your work to the whole team at the end of the internship.

We are a close-knit, friendly and multicultural team. We are looking for motivated people to join the adventure and participate in the development of QuantCube.

• Master Machine Learning models for classification and regression (Random Forest, Clustering, …)

• Master Time Series models (like ARIMA, VAR, …)

• Know NLP techniques and models (embedding, attention networks, LLM…)

• Strong interest for Economics and Finance

• Programming skills: strong level in Python, including OOP

• Fluent in English

• Fluency in any other language for NLP would be strongly appreciated

QuantCube recruits and recognises all talents

1. Meet the Recruiter and Lead DS (30 min)
2. Technical interview (1h)
3. Meet the co-founders (30 min)