Cambodia-Australia Partnership for Resilient Economic Development (CAPRED)

Data Scientist and AI Engineer

SciencePosted 4 mo ago

Location

Phnom Penh

Job Type

CONTRACT

Experience

Fresh Graduate

Experience level

Mid-Senior

Work Mode

On-site

About the role

Provide technical support across data science, data engineering, and applied AI work.
Help build reliable data pipelines, maintain digital data products, develop prototype AI tools, and strengthen internal capability to experiment safely and productively with data and AI.
Support the ingestion, cleaning, transformation, validation, and integration of data from structured and unstructured sources, including databases, spreadsheets, APIs, web sources, PDFs, survey data, and high-frequency indicators.
Assist in building and maintaining reproducible data pipelines using Python, SQL, and related tools, with appropriate checks for data quality, consistency, and version control.
Work on databases to store, query, document, and maintain analytical datasets used for policy analysis, dashboards, and AI applications.
Support macroeconomic, trade, investment, enterprise, geospatial, and other policy- relevant data analysis under the guidance of senior staff.

Requirements

This position is designed for an early-career professional with strong technical foundations, curiosity, and a willingness to learn through practice and mentoring.
The successful candidate is not expected to be an expert in every tool from the start, but must demonstrate a strong learning mindset, a positive professional attitude, disciplined problem-solving, and the ability to learn independently.

Required Skills

technical foundationscuriositywillingness to learnlearning mindsetpositive professional attitudedisciplined problem-solvingability to learn independentlyPythonSQLAI