Junior Data Engineer H/F - Data Products (6 months)

Passionate about tech? Interested in energy and climate action? Join Kayrros, a fast-growing startup using artificial intelligence to transform the world’s biggest industries.

Kayrros is a leading data analytics company that monitors and measures energy, greenhouse gas emissions, natural resources, biodiversity, and industrial activity using proprietary algorithms. We combine satellite imagery, data science, and advanced mathematics to create unique insights and customer-specific solutions for better decision-making.

Our team of experts and tech wizards is working to bring transparency to energy and the environment, from crude oil tank volumes to methane emissions. In just six years, the Kayrros team has grown to include 150 experts in data science, mathematics, and energy, representing over 20 nationalities and 10 spoken languages. The team works from 6 offices around the world in New York, Houston, London, Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore. We give our clients valuable information on global market movements to make better business decisions—whether that’s trading, investing, or managing their operations.

In 2022 alone, Kayrros was recognized as a member of French Tech’s Green 20 for the second consecutive year, designated as a Financial Time Tech Champion, and was acknowledged in the latest UNEP Global Methane Assessment report.

Kayrros is building a team of talented people to positively disrupt the world’s biggest industries and reshape the future of energy and the environment.

Join us to make a difference!

We are currently recruiting for our Paris office, a Junior Data Engineer H/F (6 months)

The team you will be joining: the Energy, Commodities & Emissions Products team

These products are developed by Kayrros teams, leveraging proprietary technologies using computer vision on satellite imagery and AIS or geolocation data, to measure or predict energy and emissions market fundamentals

Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer to build our stacks and automate the solutions and algorithms created by our team of Data Scientists, under the supervision of a Senior Data Engineer.

As a data engineer, you will therefore have to:

• Convert prototypes into reliable products

• Architect, build and test industry-grade data pipelines

• Provide technical support to Data Scientists during exploratory analysis

• Work closely with computer vision researchers to integrate and scale their algorithms

• Evaluate performance and optimize all parts of the stack

• Continuously provide ideas to improve products

Technology stack

• Languages: Python, Java, C

• Tools: Message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka), data processing (Sci-kit learn, Pandas), satellite imagery (Rasterio, Gdal, Fiona…), tests (Unittest...)

• Stack data: Hadoop (Apache Spark, Hbase…), Elasticsearch...

• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenIO, Gitlab…

Requirements

Profile :

This is an ideal opportunity if you are looking for a six-month internship starting in between February and May 2023 and you want to join a fast-growing start-up.

• Strong Python 3 Engineer able to write reusable, testable and efficient code and coach others in doing so

• Passion and proven record building data pipelines with an emphasis on software engineering, software architecture, code quality, best practices

• You are dynamic, curious and eager to learn about the energy and natural resources domains

• You are autonomous, you do not hesitate to provide the team with new ideas and challenge existing solutions.

• You can work in a fast-paced environment

• You can communicate clearly in English, including with non-technical people

• You are willing to contribute actively and have a real impact to the company success

• You can easily work in an UNIX environment

• Optionally: experience with some components of our current stack: Spark, Docker, Elasticsearch, Pandas, Scikit-learn

Why join Kayrros?

• We are a young, fast-growing tech company and are extremely passionate about what we do.

• We are located in the WeWork building on Rue la Fayette, 75009 (free drinks, events and a vibrant atmosphere).

• You will work with an international team and practice your English (or Chinese, German, Swedish, Portuguese...) on a day to day basis.