STUDENTS
Interns work across the firm - in AI visibility, governance, audit, strategy, community and the corporate functions that keep it running - on real client work, with one accountable lead beside them.
OUR INTERNSHIP PROGRAMMES
A firm that spans eight divisions needs people from more than one discipline. Each track sits across several of them, and the placement is matched to you after the conversation, not before it.
Sit in on the work of AI Strategy, AI Governance, AI Audit and Business Setup: readiness assessments, control frameworks, audit evidence and licensing routes. You draft, check and write up alongside the consultant who owns the engagement.
AI Strategy, AI Governance, AI Audit, Business Setup
THE KIND OF WORK
Work on how answer engines find and cite a brand, and on the custom builds underneath it - automation, agents, integrations and the data layer. Comfortable in a spreadsheet, SQL or Python is enough to start.
AI Visibility, Others (build)
THE KIND OF WORK
The Brief, the newsroom, the majlis sessions and the events calendar - plus the corporate and support functions that keep the firm running. Writing, organising, finance, people and marketing placements all start here.
Community, Learning & Development, corporate and support functions
THE KIND OF WORK
WHY INTERN AT NAKODA AI
A narrow, real piece of work rather than a rotation of shadowing. You finish the summer able to do something you could not do at the start.
You are on live client work inside the first month, with a defined piece that is yours from the plan to the write-up.
Not a buddy scheme. One named person is responsible for what you work on, what you learn and what you are told at the end.
The person who made a decision is in the room. You see how a whole firm of this size is run, not one corner of a very large one.
Salaried, with the same office, kit and access as everyone else in the division. Details are written into your offer.
A SUMMER AT NAKODA AI
The shape of a placement, not a fixed calendar. Exact dates follow your term and the division you join.
01 Week one
A named lead, a desk, the tools you need, and a scoped first piece of work.
02 The first month
You join a real engagement or programme alongside your lead and start contributing to it.
03 The middle weeks
A defined piece of work that is yours end to end - the plan, the doing and the write-up.
04 The last week
You show the work to the division and have an honest conversation about what comes next, including graduate roles.
THE DETAILS
INTERNSHIP FAQS
The questions students ask most. For the detail on any one placement, check its posting on the jobs page.
Every full-time opening is on the jobs page. If nothing fits, send a general application - it is read against the division you name rather than a single vacancy.
You can say where you would like to be based on the form. Most placements are in Dubai and a few are remote across the GCC, so what is available depends on the placements that are open.
Eight to twelve weeks. The exact start and end dates are agreed with you, so it fits around your term dates.
Not necessarily. We read applications from students in the last two years of a degree, master's students and recent graduates. If your course load is unusual, say so on the form.
No. Everyone goes through the same stages, however far you got last time. Reapplying is normal and held against no one - it helps if something has changed, such as a project or a course.
If you would be moving to the UAE for the placement, the visa position is settled in writing before you accept. Put where you are based on the form so it is dealt with early.
Yes. State it plainly on your CV - the school, the programme and your tentative graduation date - and attach your latest transcript or course list.
A CV with your graduation month and year, your transcript or a course list, and the short note on the form saying what you want to work on. A link to something you have made helps, and is optional.
A tentative course list with the full course titles is fine.
If someone on the hiring team has been in touch, send it to them. If not, submit the form again with the new CV and say it replaces the earlier one.
Apply to the one that fits best. Applications are held against the division as well as the posting, so a strong application is moved to a better-fitting placement rather than rejected.
The same five stages as every other role, described on the How we hire page. For internships the conversation leans on your coursework and what you have built, rather than employment history.
Every application gets a reply within two weeks, whether or not it moves forward. From application to decision it usually takes two to three weeks.
No. The working session is live, roughly ninety minutes, on a real problem, with one or two people from the division. Nothing you produce is used for client work.
Put the date in the 'why this' note. We will tell you plainly whether we can meet it.
Yes. Every internship is paid, and the figure is written into the offer before you decide.
If it is a no, you are told, and told why in a line that is actually useful.
Yes. Reply to whoever you have been talking to and say so - no reason needed.
Choose Internship on the application form and tell us the track you are leaning towards. If you are not sure, say that instead - it is a normal thing to write, and it is read by a person.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Nakoda AI hires on the work. We welcome applications regardless of nationality, gender, age, religion, disability or background, and we make adjustments to the process for anyone who needs them - tell us on the form or by email and it is arranged without fuss.
