Machine Learning Engineer Assistant – Internship (6-month) February/March 2024 (F/H/NB)

Company Description

Ubisoft’s 20,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

Job Description

As part of Ubisoft’s Data Office, the role of our department is to build new products based on the latest advances in Machine Learning & Deep Learning research. Above all, our motto is to never stop at the prototyping phase: our mission is to turn these new models into scalable, production-grade online services.

Your role? To join us on one of our R&D projects in Natural Language Processing (NLP) involving Large Language Models (LLM). The internship will focus on the adaptation of LLMs to the context of Ubisoft’s Player Support. More precisely, the intern will explore the recent techniques of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) and various approaches to the LLM serving optimization.

As a Machine Learning Engineer Assistant, your main missions will be:

• Establishing a literature review on our topic of interest, focusing on the most recent papers.
• Translating research papers into operational code, reusing open-source repositories, or implementing from scratch.
• Testing these papers on Ubisoft datasets, bridging the gap between clean academic datasets and messy real-life data.
• Helping us turn these papers into a real-life application to be used by our players.

Qualifications

• You are currently undergoing a specialty in Machine Learning, Deep Learning or Natural Language Processing (NLP);
• You have a solid knowledge of Deep Learning and mastery of standard Deep Learning frameworks (PyTorch), and experience of NLP projects involving Transformers would be a plus;
• You have good knowledge of Python, Linux, Git and ideally general programming skills (contribution to open-source projects, low-level languages, etc.);
• You ideally already have experience in reading academic articles on Machine Learning;
• A good French level would be a plus.

Additional Information

Recruitment process

If your application is chosen, you will be contacted by a member of the Campus Team to schedule a phone exchange in order to determine if the job description matches your profile, but also to what you are looking for.

If the outcome of this exchange is positive, you will be submitted a business case to assess your technical skills in-line with the role. 

Finally, you will be restituting your business case during an interview through Teams with your future manager and his manager.

 

 

Benefits as a Ubitrainee

• Join the 1st company of the latest Happy Trainees ranking #Happy@Ubi
• Internship reward according to the studies level.
• Meal voucher Apetiz Card, 50% refund of travel pass, 1 day-off per month
• Ticket reduction (concerts / shows), access to the Ubisoft gym at preferential price.

 

 

Ubisoft offers the same job opportunities to all, without any distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. Ubisoft ensures the development of an inclusive work environment which mirrors the diversity of our gamers community.

 

Ubisoft questions box:

 

How should I prepare my application to Ubisoft?

First, read the job description carefully in order to highlight your relevant experiences and skills for this position! A personalized and well-detailed resume will certainly allow you to stand out

Cover letter or not? Between both, we’ll always prefer a few lines explaining your interest in the internship /apprenticeship, rather than a long generic copy / paste! A dedicated space is also specifically provided for this purpose when you apply on our site.

 

 

I don’t know the video game industry. Do I fit in to Ubisoft?

A lot of Ubisoft’s employees are not huge fans of video games. At Ubisoft, we are looking for people who are passionate about their specialties, their jobs or entertainment in general.

 

What is it like to be a UbiTrainee?

At Ubisoft, after a training period, you will be given empowering missions which may evolve throughout your experience with us. You can expect real challenges to take up every day!

Being an intern in our company also means enjoying the best of both worlds: the vision, stability, opportunities and brands’ catalog of a large international group, but also freedom, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit and the friendly work environment of a start-up.

 

How are the Trainees supported during their experience at Ubisoft?

Our HR teams are responsible for supporting you during your experience. It involves close HR monitoring (answers to everyday questions, discussions on your career path within Ubisoft after your internship / apprenticeship, etc.) and the animation of the Trainees community (Welcome Sessions, dedicated Teams group, Trainees Week, etc.) and a few other surprises ).

 

I have a disability; how could I apply?

All our recruitment teams are aware of disability issues. Therefore, you can apply normally via our Smartrecruiters platform by attaching your resume and cover letter. If you need any adjustment of the recruitment process, especially when it involves video interviews, don’t hesitate to state it during your application and / or contact the Handicap Mission team by email ([email protected]).

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