Please note: We are a remote-first organization so you can work from anywhere in India. You may be required to travel to our Mumbai office based on business requirements or for company/team events.
We are looking for an energetic Intern to join our Engineering team and be a part of Cactus Labs, our R&D and innovations cell for business solutions.
Cactus Labs is the high-impact R&D Cell of Cactus Communications. We harness the power of AI and Big Data to develop innovative products and solutions for publishers, businesses and for stakeholders in academia and the life sciences. We are a multi-cultural team spread across 6+ countries and setup 100% remotely.
We have various tribes (teams) at Labs who work majorly in domains such as Natural Language Processing, Big Data, Applied ML and Low Latency engineering.
You can check out our website to know more about the team and our solutions – https://cactuslabs.io/.
Responsibilities
- Full ownership of work and code. It’s a young team and we take pride in our work (and also have healthy debates sometimes over camelCasing , snake_casing and PascalCasing)
- Collaborate closely with various team members like Big Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Big Data/Cloud Architect and Domain SMEs while building and designing solutions
- In addition to technical expertise, understand our products and the users – contribute to product direction & user understanding.
- Play an active part in code reviews, your own and others—set the standard for the team!
- Innovate and ability to learn and adapt quickly. We constantly tinker with bleeding edge tech and implement them at scale.
Qualifications and Prerequisites
- Experience with Python to write highly efficient and scalable functional code
- Have worked with Apache Spark. Having basic understanding is also fine. Experience with cloud environment especially AWS. GCP/Azure would be a big plus.
- Experience with Elasticsearch a big plus.
- Fundamental knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms.
Additional Information
CACTUS is a company powered by its inclusive community spirit. We’re a melting pot of perspectives, breaking down barriers between different styles of thought to democratize access to scientific knowledge.
At CACTUS, there’s opportunity for growth around every corner. You are encouraged to experiment, challenge yourself, stretch your capabilities, and take risks. If you are interested in building products that move innovation forward, then a career with us will sound like your jam. At CACTUS, you’ll discover the true extent of what’s possible through AI, have the autonomy to shape your career, embrace an accelerate-from-anywhere lifestyle, and make an impact.
At the heart of everything are our researchers – we help enable their success, and every move we make is about creating a positive impact in the world of science.
Together we,
Power research. Empower people.
About CACTUS
Established in 2002, Cactus Communications (cactusglobal.com) is a leading science communication and technology company. It specializes in AI products and solutions that improve how research gets funded, published, communicated, and discovered. Its flagship brand Edit age offers a comprehensive suite of researcher solutions, including expert services and cutting-edge AI products like Mind the Graph, Paperpal, and R Discovery. CACTUS also offers medical communications under its brand Cactus Life Sciences. With offices in Princeton, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, and Mumbai and a global workforce of over 3,000 experts, CACTUS is a pioneer in workplace best practices and has been consistently recognized as a great place to work.
Awards and Recognition
- Cactus Communications has consistently ranked among the top 20 on the global list of the Top 100 Companies for Telecommute Jobs since 2016.
- Recognized as ‘Employers of the Future’ two years in a row in 2023 and 2022, in a study by LeadUp Universe, Fortune India and Work Universe
- Recognized as One of India’s Top 100 best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work® in 2022
- Winner of ‘Best Innovation Leveraging AI Services’ at AWS AI Conclave 2022
- Recognized as one of the Best Companies for Millennials 2019 by Times Ascent and Learning & Organization Development Roundtable
- Emerged as one of India’s Top 10 Safe Workplaces for Women in a survey conducted by Rainmaker in 2019
- Ranked #1 among India’s Great Mid-Size Workplaces by Great Place to Work® Institute in 2017