From a master's in AI to fully hired at Telenor in 15 months
When Steffen Magnussen completed his Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, he already had a strong technical foundation, hands-on experience with machine learning and excellent analytical skills. What he was missing was experience from working as a developer in a large production environment. Fifteen months later, he was permanently employed by Telenor. Steffen joined Loop Academy in autumn 2025 after completing a five-year Master’s degree in Technology, specialising in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Agder. During his studies, he worked with machine learning, computer vision, statistics, language models and backend development, in addition to completing two summer internships as a Data Scientist at Å Energi. In other words, he already had a very strong academic foundation. But there is still a big difference between being strong at university and being productive as a developer in a large technology organisation.
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