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Data Science Support Intern at Pezesha

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Company Details
Name:Pezesha
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Description: Pezesha, has created a holistic financial marketplace for MSMEs. By offering lending, financial education, and debt counselling to borrowers, plus a proprietary credit scoring system to vet MSMEs without a credit history, derisking lending to SMEs. Lower Risks bring commercial banks and capital providers onto Pezesha platform. As a collaborative structure, Pezesha is helping to tackle the $19 Billion financing gap for SMEs. Pezesha is led by a highly experienced and passionate local team with more than 10 years local and international experience in fin-tech, management of growth and technology companies, and unparalleled local market knowledge and reach.
Job Description
  • The Data Team Support Intern will support both Data Scientists and Data Engineers in testing, validating, and monitoring credit scoring and transaction classification systems.
  • The role is designed as a hands-on learning position, where the intern will assist with model testing, feature validation, ETL checks, deployment verification, and reporting, while gaining practical exposure to machine learning models, data pipelines, and production systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Model Testing & Validation (Data Science Support)
  • M-Pesa Classifier Testing
  • ETL & Deployment Support (Data Engineering Support)
  • Documentation & Change Tracking

Required Qualifications

  • Assist in testing credit scoring models built by Data Scientists.
  • Help verify the accuracy and consistency of features used in models.
  • Support basic validation of model outputs across test and production environments.
  • Participate in regression testing when models or features are updated.
  • Support testing of the M-Pesa transaction classifier, including LLM-based classification logic.
  • Assist in measuring classification accuracy and identifying misclassified transactions.
  • Help track and report classifier accuracy, with a target of above 95% under supervision.
  • Assist in validating ETL pipelines that feed credit scoring systems.
  • Help check data accuracy, completeness, and consistency in processed datasets.
  • Support testing of deployed models to ensure they run correctly after release.

Assist in documenting:

  • Model and feature changes
  • ETL updates
  • Testing results and observations
  • Maintain simple change logs and testing notes for internal reference.

Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in:

  • Data Science
  • Computer Science
  • Statistics
  • Information Technology
  • Or a related field

Basic knowledge of:

  • Python and SQL
  • Strong R programming skills
  • Data analysis concepts
  • Machine learning fundamentals
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
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