The Programme
We are looking for a project intern to join the POD-AI in the first half of 2025.
Team Description - POD-Artificial Intelligence (POD-AI):
The AI Pod adopts a tech-centric investment approach to AI and aims to identify and capture opportunities in AI for Temasek and its broader portfolio ecosystem.
It invests across:
- Early-stage, AI-native companies.
- AI-specialist VC funds.
- Venture building, where it has set up a number of ventures, including Minden.ai, Aicadium and Resaro AI.
Your key responsibilities include the following:
- Stay abreast of technical developments and combine that with a keen understanding of business logic from domain experts to evaluate the commercial impact of the fast-paced developments in the field of AI.
- Support evaluation and due diligence of investment opportunities in early-stage companies through technology and product assessments.
- Work closely with the team to support the preparation of presentations, memos and analysis.
- Work with your teammates in an agile, start-up environment to solve diverse business and technical challenges.
Required Skills and Abilities
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in a highly quantitative field (Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.) with an interest in finance or investing.
- Previous internship experience in a software product company or software consulting firm.
- High level of interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to work well with diverse teams and deal with multiple stakeholders.
- Self-starter with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities and to work independently.
- Experience working on Machine Learning/AI/Deep Learning projects.
- Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and strategic/business-oriented thinking, particularly around the commercial impact of technological developments in AI.
- Good presentation abilities, with excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to explain complex analytical concepts to people from other fields.
About Us:
Incorporated in 1974, Temasek is an investment company headquartered in Singapore. Supported by 11 offices internationally, Temasek owns a net portfolio value of S$308 billion (US$235 billion) as of 31 March 2018.
Our portfolio covers a broad spectrum of sectors, including financial services; telecommunications, media & technology; transportation & industrials; consumer & real estate; life sciences & agribusiness; as well as energy & resources.
Our investment activities are guided by four investment themes and the long-term trends they represent:
- Transforming Economies;
- Growing Middle Income Populations;
- Deepening Comparative Advantages; and
- Emerging Champions.