Develop Your Skills, Get Recognized, and Make an Impact
Develop a meaningful career
Our more than 4000 changemakers come from various backgrounds and experience levels
to build innovative AI solutions, demonstrate their skills, and move up in their careers.
What´s unique about us
We believe in collaboration as the most effective way to learn, grow, and build a thriving career. In an Omdena project, you join a selected team of collaborators from diverse backgrounds. All members support each other in an open and safe environment where ideas are exchanged freely to find the best-fit solution(s) to a problem.
Our engineers get jobs at Google, Microsoft, and more
Rosana de Oliveira Gomes, Brazil
“After all this mind-blowing experience, I feel much closer to the person I wanted to be for a very long time: a technology change maker. “
Colton Magnant, UK
“I have learned so much in several domains including data mining, AI, ML, transfer learning, NLP.”
Anita Okoh, Germany
“Working in a collaborative project helped greatly in boosting my data science confidence.”
Xavier Torres Fatsini, Spain
“After the Omdena project, I see that career adaptation was a necessary thing in today’s trends.“
Marek Cichy, Poland
“Collaboration across continents, time zones, and perspectives, especially on a social science-linked challenge was mind-opening.”
Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, South Africa
“Joining Omdena was an important career milestone. A unique way of learning and contributing to social good.”
Neil Sahota, USA
“Collaborative AI enables robust AI solutions through sharing knowledge, perspectives, and promoting diversity and inclusion.“
Sakthisree Venkatesan, India
“The community made me feel a sense of freedom and provided a non-judgmental environment where I was enabled to help others.”
Develop your skills, build your brand, and…
250+ Collaborators got opportunities to publish articles through Omdena, receiving a collective 150,000+ views
350+ Collaborators received free access to top data science courses worth over $100,000
100+ Collaborators got opportunities to speak through Omdena with a total of 10,000+ registrations
50+ collaborators got $350,000+ through paid projects
50+ Collaborators received recommendations that helped them to get jobs and placements in Universities
Our 4 impact career paths for you
Depending on your interest and skill, you can follow one or more of the 4 paths.
Benefits of being in the Omdena community *
Career services
Get paid gigs through Omdena and full-time job opportunies at leading companies.
Mentoring support
Get connected to the right mentors to move your career forward.
Free access to paid courses
Worth up to $500 from partners like Dataquest and Datacamp
Free paperback or e-books
Have books delivered to your doorstep.
Writing and speaking opportunities
Publish on the Omdena blog and speak in front of hundreds of people in our events.
Support to start your own venture
(Fee waived) to launch your own startup through partners like Founders Institute
*can be limited availability
Stand out in an ocean of data scientists, ML and data engineers
In an Omdena project, you will go through an entire data science project life cycle, starting with the problem scoping and ending with modeling.
This boosts your skills in various domains such as:
- 1. Machine Learning
- 2. Data Engineering
- 3. Model Deployment
- 3. Visualization
- 4. Programming
- 5. Domain expertise
Even the most technically skilled data scientist needs to have the following soft skills to thrive today. All of which you can only learn through hands-on practice.
- 1. Collaboration
- 2. Cultural empathy
- 3. Creative thinking/problem solving
- 4. Initiative
- 5. Presentation skills
As an Omdena Collaborator, you have access to the latest tools and apply them to real data.
In addition, selected collaborators who have been completing projects successfully can accelerate their learning with complementary premium course access from our partners.
Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much
- 1. Network with like-minded people in our supportive community
- 2. Get mentorship by experienced collaborators
- 3. Work with leading organizations and social enterprises
- 1. Be featured for speaking events
- 2. Write your own blog posts and get promoted on our social media
- 3. Join as a panelist in our webinars and invite-only demo days
Work With Cutting-Edge Tools
Career Growth Stories
From Junior Machine Learning Engineer to Computer Vision Researcher
Mahzad went from joining her first Omdena #AI Challenge to speaking at DeepLearning.AI in front of more than 1000 people, to becoming an AI Product Owner, and now considering entering an entrepreneurship program.
From Omdena Collaborator to a Software Engineer at Google
Samir Sheriff shares his journey from several years in the corporate world to joining real-world AI projects, and finally securing a software engineering role at Google.
Getting a Data Science Job Offer at Accenture
Learnings, tips, and inspirations from a personal success story of getting a data science job offer at Accenture.
Interning at NVIDIA & overcoming barriers
Data Scientist Kennedy K. Wangari shares his learnings as a community leader and incoming data science/ AI internship at NVIDIA.
Becoming a Software Engineer at Microsoft
How to get a software engineer role at Microsoft. An interview with Brian Kariuki on the value of setbacks, being courageous, and honing your skills with others.