Question [Sticky] What type of candidates are we looking for in AIAP?

We are looking for candidates who possess a keen interest to pursue a career in the area of machine learning and data science. We believe that candidates can come from any area of specialization, and the eligibility and requirements are as follows:

• Eligibility
  • Singaporean only
  • Graduated from a recognized university or Polytechnic* (*with at least 3 years of working experience)
  • Eligible for TeSA CLT / TMCA Funding
• Technical Knowledge and proficiency requirements
  • Intermediate programming experience in one of these languages: Python, R, Scala, Java, C, C++, C#, Go
  • Understand basic data pre-processing (handling missing data, outliers etc…)
  • Build machine learning models using frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, and scikit-learn
  • Build machine learning pipeline that consists of modular and sequential components to train and build models
  • Apply software engineering best practices in basic code documentation (Readme, docstrings and requirements.txt)
  • Deploy your models in Docker containers
  • Able to provision and use of cloud computing infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure
  • Able to do Linux shell scripting
  • Able to use at least one of the following database and data processing technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, Apache Hadoop and/or Apache Spark
  • Able to use GitHub/GitLab and perform proper code check-in/out and repository
  • Understand Statistical fundamentals

Beyond that, we are looking for candidates who are self-directed, independent learners, good problem solvers and work well in teams. Selection is competitive and the above are more likely our minimum requirements.  Please review this article for more information.