Young Graduate in Data and Software Engineering (Zurich, Switzerland)

Who We Are

Founded in 2017, Unit8 is a fast-growing Swiss AI and data analytics consulting and services company dedicated to solving complex problems of traditional industries like automotive, chemical, financial services, manufacturing and pharma. We work with some of the biggest organizations in Europe to solve the challenges that directly affect their business - be it operations, finance, manufacturing or R&D. Since our foundation, we have successfully delivered more than 300 projects and have grown to 190+ talented individuals across 10 office locations.

Unit8’s mission is to drive the adoption of AI and Data Science in the non-digital industries and to help accelerate their digital transformation. Among its activities, Unit8 dedicates a part of its resources and time on projects that deeply matter to us - that includes collaboration on pro-bono and “engineering for good” causes.

Requirements

What You’ll Do

Unit8 is welcoming young graduates for the opportunity to grow in Data and Software Engineering! Join us for a 6-month paid professional experience in building industrial Data and AI solutions. You can start asap, with direct exposure to clients' needs and opportunities to participate in learning activities such as Reading Groups and Knowledge Sharing Sessions. In addition, each young graduate will be accompanied by a dedicated wingmate/mentor who will guide and help them build their technical growth vision.

As a young graduate you will join a team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Cloud Engineers who work hand-in-hand with our customers on designing and implementing their industry-specific use cases. You will be directly involved in discussing the client’s challenges and needs and will have chances to develop your client-facing skills. You will be responsible for developing, deploying, and automating our AI services and cloud infrastructure. You will also learn to carefully analyse a given problem and apply the relevant tools and techniques to solve it.

In general you will:

• use software best practices in continuous integration and delivery, versioning and automation;
• use your skills to build and maintain service and data infrastructure;
• participate as junior engineer in all phases of the software development life cycle - planning, implementation, deployment, testing and maintenance;

Are You the team member we are looking for?

In order to be successful in this role, you are/have:

• motivated and eager to learn different aspects of engineering
• comfortable interacting with technical and business people
• strong communication and presentation skills
• recently graduated/finishing your MSc or BSc in Computer Science or related major;
• familiar with version control and collaboration tooling (git)
• familiar with CI/CD frameworks and automated deployment concepts (i.e Docker, K8s)
• fluent in both English and German
• available for a minimum of 32h a week.
• ready to start on the 1st of February

Benefits

What We Offer

• Exposure to a wide variety of projects, industries, and technologies. Each client is different and provides unique opportunities to learn.
• Ability to contribute to internal open-source projects like Darts (https://github.com/unit8co/darts)
• Learning activities such as ML Reading Group, knowledge sharing sessions with engineers.
• Training-on-the-job and your personal wingmate/mentor
• 15 paid days of holiday
• Be part of an international team of more than 20 nationalities.
• up to 10% of paid time for self-development.
• Flexible working hours, including some home office.
• Cross offices/company-wide frequent events like offsites.
• If you are successful, opportunity to be then hired for a permanent position.

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