Data Associate - MedTech (Winter/Spring 2025 Internship)

Data lovers, unite! Lumerate is searching for an awesome post-secondary student to join us for 8 months in the winter/spring of 2025 as an intern on our Zapyrus Data Team!

Who is Lumerate?

We help our customers achieve the full picture of their industries. We also strive to achieve our own personal full pictures from a career fulfillment and learning perspective. We’re in the business of gathering intelligence about industries and delivering it to the right people within those industries through innovative software interfaces. Our vision is to be the world's most useful and trusted source of information for professionals seeking to understand what's happening in their industry.

Our mission: To deliver industry awareness to an ever-increasing number of people, in whatever way helps them to make the most informed decisions, take the most immediate action and be the most awesome at their unique jobs.

All about Zapyrus:

Zapyrus is the only sales research assistant that helps MedTech business leaders understand what's happening in their industry in real-time.

We use machine learning to identify the right opportunities for our clients at the right time. Zapyrus works even while you sleep and when you're away from your keyboard to ensure that nothing is missed.

Zapyrus specializes in the MedTech industry covering traditional medical devices, IVD/diagnostics, and SaMD. MedTech service providers around the world trust Zapyrus for their sales research. Zapyrus is rapidly becoming a leader in a new field of B2B software that uses machine learning to help companies in complex industries make informed business decisions

What the role looks like:

In this role your main responsibility will be to find, review, and analyze content from MedTech company web sources, bringing them into Zapyrus to be made actionable for our users through data and machine learning processes. You will also be involved in data and coding projects aimed at expanding the depth of information available to our users through prompt engineering for large language models. You will also work closely with the rest of the Zapyrus data team each day on a number of tasks and projects to ensure that Zapyrus users are receiving the most up-to-date and comprehensive industry activity for their sales and marketing efforts.

As we're funding this position with the assistance of the Student Work Placement Program and the Ontario Co-operative education tax credit, candidates must meet the following eligibility requirements:

• Registered full-time or part-time under a co‑operative education program in a  publicly funded Ontario post-secondary institution
• A Canadian citizen, permanent resident or a protected person as defined by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
• Legally entitled to work in Canada, including specific province legislation and regulations

More about YOU:

• You have a background in STEM (biology, chemistry, or physics)
• You enjoy hunting for information on the web
• You have an interest in medical technologies or healthcare
• You have experience and interest in prompt engineering for LLMs (large language models)
• You’re highly organized
• You're very comfortable using Excel/Google Sheets
• You’re super curious (like George), about everything
• You consider yourself to be tech-savvy, and you’re excited by the idea of working for a software company
• You’re someone who is detail-oriented and likes puzzles, you’ll include the word located at these coordinates 43.63612711640289, -79.44091416807237 in your cover letter
• Your enthusiasm is contagious!

The Zapyrus Team at Lumerate is the right place for you if you’re interested in:

• Learning about some of the practical applications of data science
• Gaining an understanding of career options beyond those you may be currently thinking about
• Being a part of an experienced team with skills in machine learning, development, business and organizational culture
• Helping to shape the future of a bootstrapped and profitable Canadian tech company

Salary: $3200/month

Working Hours:

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST Monday - Thursday

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST Friday

+ 3.5 hours on Sunday

Flexibility can be discussed

Start Date: January 6, 2025

End Date: August 31, 2025

Already picturing your first day as our next Data Associate? Apply now with your cover letter and resume. Please note that any applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada. We look forward to hearing from you.

Lumerate is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.