Internship Data Science and AI (d/f/m)

Shape Your Future With Us

General Re Corporation, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is a holding company for global reinsurance and related operations, with more than 2,000 employees worldwide. It owns General Reinsurance Corporation and General Reinsurance AG, which conducts business as Gen Re.

Gen Re delivers reinsurance solutions to the Life/Health and Property/Casualty insurance industries. Represented in all major reinsurance markets through a network of 37 offices, we have earned superior financial strength ratings from each of the major rating agencies. We value diversity, equality and inclusion and promote a culture that supports professional and personal growth

For our Unit Legal we are seeking to appoint an Internship Data Science and AI (d/f/m) based in our Cologne office starting as soon as possible.

Your Role

As part of a cross-functional team you will collaborate closely with our Analytics team to provide support for our Data Science and AI projects. These projects will involve an exploration phase to gain a better understanding of the problem, as well as the development and implementation of various models and methods to arrive at concrete solutions for specific issues. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Loading, cleaning, visualizing, and understanding data (EDA) is one part of your role.
• You will build reliable and reproducible data pipelines.
• You will use various statistical approaches such as GLMs up to modern machine learning and AI approaches.
• By developing and implementing generative AI use cases you will contribute to AI initiatives.
• Writing functions and packages to automate various tasks is also included in your area of responsibility.
• You will also assist the team in communicating and presenting the results in various formats.  

Your Profile

• You are currently enrolled in an advanced bachelor’s or master’s degree program in mathematics, computer science, economics, finance, natural sciences or a similar degree.
• You have good knowledge of the programming language R. Experience with the packages tidyverse, data.table, httr2, shiny, targets or similar is an advantage.
• You have a keen interest in learning new techniques and methods. Analytical thinking and the ability to find pragmatic solutions are among your strengths.
• A basic understanding of the fields of AI such as LLMs, prompt engineering, chaining, structured outputs, etc.
• It is an advantage if you have experience working with git, SQL, Quarto, typst, bash or Python.
• You are flexible, good at communicating and you like working in a team.
• You have a very good command of English, as a large part of the work will be carried out in English.

We offer you

• Working on exciting data-based tasks in a motivated, international, and diverse team.
• The opportunity to gain highly relevant professional experience through practical tasks.
• A pleasant working environment in a central location in the heart of Cologne.
• An attractive salary, flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely.
• A varied lunch buffet on the 8th floor with a view of the cathedral towers.

Does this sound exciting?
If you want to shape your future with us, we look forward to receiving your complete application including the earliest starting date. 

Contact
Carine Castillo (HR Consultant), Tel. +49 221 9738 449

Our Address

General Reinsurance AG
Theodor-Heuss-Ring 11
50668 Cologne (Germany)