Data Scientist Intern/Co-op-Hong Kong Intact Lab-Statistics- 2025 Winter/Summer

The Programme

Life in the Lab:

Technology is only as good as the people behind it. Every day at work, you’ll inspire and be inspired by the brilliant minds of our greater lab team: actuaries, data scientists, machine learning experts, geomathematicians, meteorologists, software engineers and designers.

Together, you will tackle challenging problems and have the freedom to imagine, research, create, test, and bring innovative solutions to life that will have a profound impact on our business and the needs of our customers.

As our company grows, your career will grow with it.  

There will always be an opportunity for you to develop your leadership skills, strengthen your expertise or take your work in a new direction.  Whether it’s leading a new, exciting project or moving into a different A.I. product team in Canada or Hong Kong, your career will always be on the move.

We are looking for students who can commit to a minimum of 3 months for our 2025 Data Scientist Internship/Co-op for either our Winter term Jan-May or Summer term June-Aug. 

We also offer 6-12 months placements/co-ops opportunities.

Ideally, you are in your final year of studies.  

This position is based on science park in Hong Kong with the option to work in a hybrid arrangement during your internship.

As a tech pioneer within a new AI lab, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Use machine learning and advanced statistics to help build innovative solutions for real-life customer and business problems. 
• Explore new technologies to use in your own solutions. 
• Grow alongside a diverse team of world-class experts in data science, software engineering, actuarial science, business, and design. 
• Transform data into meaningful conclusions and recommendations. 
• Validate the scientific methodology and project outputs of the other team members. 
• Collaborate with our teams in HK & Canada to share knowledge, learnings, results, and tools.  
• All this plus great work-life balance!  

Required Skills and Abilities

Here’s what you bring to the table:

• Currently enrolled in a post-secondary degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, science, engineering, statistics, AI, computer science or a related field.  
• Relevant experience in predictive modelling, machine learning and advanced statistics solving business problems is an asset. 
• Knowledge of the underlying theory and implementation details of machine learning techniques such as clustering, decision trees, neural networks, Linear and Non-Linear Programming, Deep Learning (ANN, RNN, CNN) and Reinforcement Learning. 
• Experience with our tech stack is an asset: scikit-learn, xgboost, pytorch, tensorflow, LightGBM, pandas, numpy. 
• Programming experience in languages such as Python or R.  
• Unlimited curiosity and a passion to challenge the status quo. 
• Ability to focus on vaguely defined issues requiring the application of a creative approach. 
• Excellent communication, organization and a collaborative attitude.  

About Us:

The Intact Lab – with headquarters in Montreal, Canada – is a fast-growing, digital innovation hub backed by Intact Financial Corporation (TSX: IFC, HK$110 billion in market cap), Canada's largest home, auto and business insurance company. 

Intact Financial (HK) limited (Intact Lab, HK) is our first R&D AI center outside of Canada. 

This expansion into the Asia Pacific region is an exciting chapter of our journey to become the best insurance AI shop in the world.