Software Engineer Intern - Survival Analysis

At Dataiku, we are building a data-science platform that allows any user to achieve data science jobs collaboratively and without the need to code. Thus, we are constantly creating new features required by customers to achieve their mission. The Business Solutions team’s mission is to create day-to-day business cases for particular industries by using Dataiku platform. One way of distributing such features is by creating a plugin, an add-on to install inside our platform to bring a specific feature only for customers who need it.

As an intern in the Business Solutions unit, you would be in charge of creating the Survival Analysis plugin that would help many types of businesses predict the time to an event. A defining feature of modeling survival (or TTE) data is characterization of a relevant time-period where data is thus Censored (e.g. a patient is still alive at the end of trial is a record which will be right censored in the analysis to a cutoff date). Due to the nature of these data, specialized modeling techniques that can accommodate the defined time period and censor flag are necessary.

You will first get a short period of onboarding in which you will discover Dataiku platform, get used to the frameworks used when developing plugins and meet the people you will be working with. Then, by discussing with some experts inside the Dataiku team and doing some research, you will build the specifications for this project, understanding customers' needs and defining precisely what components need to be in the plugin. Finally, you will be in charge of developing the plugin from scratch, testing it, publishing it and presenting it both internally and externally.

At Dataiku, you will:

• Get familiar with Dataiku platform
• Build specifications for the Survival Analysis plugin by understanding customers' need and the algorithms related to that topic
• Implement the plugin using Python and some front-end framework
• Test the tool, and build documentation for it

This job is made for you if:

• You like to work in team
• You love data science as much as we do !
• You are autonomous and like doing research on technical subjects
• You have some knowledge of one or several programming languages (Python, Java, C…)
• You are familiar with front-end technologies (Javascript, VueJS, React…)

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