Data Science Intern - QuantumBlack Immersion Program
McKinsey & Company
Data Science
Bangkok, Thailand · Singapore
Posted on Mar 29, 2025
Data Science Intern - QuantumBlack Immersion Program
Job ID: 96090
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
You be based in Singapore and will be part of the QuantumBlack Immersion Program for a duration of 8-10 weeks.
The QuantumBlack Immersion Program creates a great opportunity to assess an individual’s potential and provides them opportunity to understand if a career in technical consulting is something that they want to pursue after graduation from university.
During the program, you will typically join a client engagement and can contribute to the development of one of our products or R&D project if the opportunity arises. The client engagement work can be across the private, public, and social sectors. You will be placed with teams and will play an active role in all aspects of the engagement.
The role will entail working in interdisciplinary teams consisting of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Designers, Software Engineers and McKinsey experts to solve problems by connecting real world business questions to machine learning methods.
You will support our client services lead to identify business hypotheses and metrics and have the opportunity to define and drive the analytical scope and method for projects, including formulating and shaping the models.
Other responsibilities:
- You will use math, stats and machine learning to derive key insights across various industry sectors;
- Write highly optimized code;
- Develop world-class data science products for clients as well as for our data science team;
- Apply your exceptional academic background to develop and apply machine learning methods to improve and optimize our clients’ performance needs.
- Develop prompt engineering strategies, RAG optimization, etc, if involved in Generative AI engagements;
- Collaborating with other members of the team to help developing complex Data science code and algorithms;
- Participate to team stand-up, client meetings and problem solving sessions
Your Growth
As part of QuantumBlack, you are a highly collaborative individual who is capable of laying aside your own agenda, listening to and learning from colleagues, challenging thoughtfully and prioritizing impact.
Trust between colleagues is paramount here – you are an individual who can always be trusted to work in the best interests of all colleagues and to achieve the best outcome for QuantumBlack and our clients.
You are naturally enthusiastic and enjoy sharing your passion with others. You search for ways to improve things, believe in iterative change, experimenting with new approaches, learning and improving to move forward quickly.
QuantumBlack helps companies use data to drive decisions. We combine business experience, expertise in large-scale data analysis and visualization, and advanced software engineering know-how to deliver results. From aerospace to finance to Formula One, we help companies prototype, develop, and deploy bespoke data science and data visualization solutions to make better decisions.
Your qualifications and skills
- University students in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent experience with expected graduation date in 2025 or 2026
- 0+ years of applying machine learning and data mining techniques to real problems with copious amounts of data in professional professional setting (for example, internship) would be considered a plus
- Programming (focus on machine learning): Python (must), SQL, PySpark (valued)
- Exposure to prototype statistical analysis and modeling algorithms and apply these algorithms for data driven solutions to problems in new domains will be beneficial
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
- Good presentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex analytical concepts to people from other fields
- Strong command of the English language (both verbal and written)
- Willingness to travel
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