This is a Intern - Machine Learning Engineer role with one of the leading companies in AU right now Xero with an amazing team. They are continuing to grow rapidly. This is the chance to join right as the takes off. More About the Role at Xero Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place. How you'll make an impact The AI Products group exists to collaboratively build products that use AI and ML to reduce toil and deliver the right insight at the right time. Working within the Data & Science team, you will join a diverse, globally distributed team of scientists, engineers, product managers, and analysts who help Xero turn data into beautiful, insightful products. Machine Learning Engineers design and build the infrastructure and services that power AI products that serve millions of customers every day. They also work closely with Applied Scientists through the research and development process to create harnesses and interfaces to safely take models from research to production environments. What you'll do - Create software - Learning how your team develops software and technical solutions. Becoming familiar with programming languages, toolsets and best practices - Test software - Learning to assess risk, analyse products and design testing activities; and begin to apply these in different contexts. - Resolve issues - Learning how to triage and resolve issues identified during the development lifecycle or in production. May start to assist with root cause analysis. - Engineering standards & frameworks - Learning how to develop and deploy software in accordance with standards - Continuous improvement - Developing knowledge of current development technologies and methodologies used at Xero What you'll bring - Penultimate year of study and available to work full time for 12 months from February 2025. - Studying a degree in engineering, mathematics, science or data - Good interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build effective working relationships with others. - You are comfortable learning new frameworks (distributed processing, ML, etc) and applying them to real problems - Basic understanding of technologies and concepts related to cloud-based systems infrastructure. - Understanding of, or exposure to, software version control - Comfortable with one or more major programming language (e.g. Python, Go, C++ Java), preferably with some knowledge of Python. - Understanding of Machine learning/AI architecture Some familiarity with Linux/Unix systems. - You are willing to dive into the unknown, and allow new information to change your decisions - Constant learning and growth are an important part of who you are Our eligibility criteria for the Xcelerate Internship program: - Full-time working rights in Australia - Fewer than 12 months professional working experience in relevant industries - Be in your penultimate year of study in a degree in engineering, data science, computer science - Availability to start full-time in February 2025 If you don’t think you're a perfect fit, you should still sign up to Hatch and create a profile, we'll match you to other roles that suit your profile. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. We model this in our hiring process for our partners like Xero. ✅ Applying here is the first step in the hiring process for this role at Xero. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural identity, disability, age, or any other non-merit factors. To put it simply, Hatch is for everyone.