Data Scientist Placement Student

Every hire so far has been referred by someone already on the team. We're looking for a Data Scientist Placement Student. We are building text classification and search features using LLMs and classic ML. The intern will help with experiments, evaluation and data labelling. Remote position. Most of the team is in Leuven, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you will do:

• Label and review samples of training data to check quality.
• Pull data from BigQuery or PostgreSQL with SQL queries.
• Present findings to the team in a short slide deck every few weeks.
• Run exploratory analysis and write up what you find in a Jupyter notebook.
• Engineer features from transaction, text or event data.

About you:

• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in Belgium for the duration of the internship.
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science or a related field, graduating in between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Basic statistics: distributions, hypothesis testing, sampling.
• Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering.

3 months, starting Jan 2027. Stipend: €1,700 to €1,950 monthly.

Perks: Online learning budget, Flexible hours, Letter of recommendation.

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Machinebouw Noord BV.