Intern, Data Scientist (Mart)

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

In the Grab Mart Data Science team, you are at the heart of Grab's retail and grocery engine. We build and deploy the AI/ML models that power seamless shopping experiences across our ecosystem. Our mission is to transform millions shop by solving complex challenges in inventory intelligence, demand forecasting, and hyper-personalized discovery, ensuring every user finds exactly what they need, right when they need it.

This is a paid internship role. You will report to our Senior Data Science Manager and be based onsite at our office in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a motivated, fast-learning Data Science Intern who is eager to push the boundaries of what AI can do in Grab Mart. Working with and guided by senior Data Science leads at Grab, you will contribute to impactful technical workstreams.

We design this role for someone who not just learns fast but obsesses over Agentic AI. You will help us move from static interfaces to autonomous systems, bridging the gap between advanced research and production-grade marketplace solutions.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

Guided by senior mentors, you will contribute to one of the following core areas:

• Next-Gen User Experience (AI Agents): Move beyond static interfaces to build agentic, conversational, and anticipatory experiences. You will help predict shopping intent and brand preferences to power autonomous shopping assistants that can handle complex queries, automating re-ordering, and providing hyper-personalized discovery.
• Service Reliability: Build predictive models to safeguard the order lifecycle by identifying high-risk orders prone to cancellation, predicting fulfillment failures due to insufficient inventory, and flagging transactions requiring proactive intervention.
• Demand Forecasting: Create high precision, hyper-local spatio-temporal models using complex signals (weather, events, marketing). You will provide granular SKU-level predictions to improve supply chain readiness and minimize waste.
• Demand Shaping: Implement intelligent optimization algorithms to balance demand and supply in real-time. You will improve platform visibility and use contextual nudges spatially and temporally to balance demand with merchant/driver supply.
• Demand Generation: Decode unique user shopping patterns to unlock new demand. You will build AI models for automated targeting and user segmentation to drive sustainable growth.
• Build, Deploy, and Iterate: Develop production-grade AI models. You will participate in the full A/B testing lifecycle and implement real-time production monitoring to ensure long-term model health using MLOps best practices.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Internship Duration: Can start from May 2026 onwards with a minimum duration of 3 months
• Education: Pursue or recently completed a Degree in Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Motivated and Excited to Learn: A learner who is excited to handle complex, multi-step commerce workflows and pick up new frameworks (like LangChain, CrewAI, or AutoGPT) with guidance.
• Technical Foundations:
  • Proficiency in Python or Scala.
  • Deep interest in ML/DL, data mining, and optimization algorithms.
  • Familiarity with frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Agentic Interest: Has interest in developing new DS solutions with Agents and Generative AI to solve real-world problems.
• Collaborative Mindset: Have the confidence to communicate well at work to collaborate with your DS mentors, PMs, and Engineers.

Good-to-have Skills

• Experience building large-scale recommender systems or supply-chain optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Big Data (Spark, Flink, or Kafka).
• Experience in fine-tuning LLMs or building LLM-based applications.

 

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.