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What you'll build
The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP's global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers. This is more than an internship, it's the foundation for a career built on connection, creativity, and impact.
Position title: SAP iXp Intern - AI Machine Learning
Location: Palo Alto, CA (in-person)
Expected start date: June 2026
Contract Duration: 6 months (extendable)
Working Hours: 20-40 hours/week
As an AI/ML Intern, you will work alongside senior data scientists and engineers to build, optimize, and deploy intelligent systems. You won't just be watching from the sidelines; you will be responsible for exploring messy, real-world datasets, training models, and helping integrate AI features into our core products.
Data Engineering: Collect, clean, and preprocess large-scale structured and unstructured datasets to ensure they are "model-ready."
Model Development: Assist in designing and implementing ML algorithms (Supervised, Unsupervised, and Deep Learning) using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Experimentation: Conduct A/B testing, hyperparameter tuning, and error analysis to improve model precision and recall.
GenAI & LLMs: Work with Large Language Models (LLMs), including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and implementing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines.
MLOps: Help maintain and monitor model performance in production; assist in containerizing models using Docker for deployment.
Research & Documentation: Stay current with the latest AI research (e.g., via arXiv) and document your experimental results for the wider engineering team.
What you'll bring
We're looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stay curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.
Education: Currently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
Eligibility: Must be currently enrolled, or recently graduated (start date must be within 6 months of graduation date) from a coding academy/bootcamp, apprenticeship, associate, bachelor's, master's or JD/PhD program
Problem-Solving: A proven ability to break down complex problems and think through edge cases.
Curiosity: A strong desire to learn new libraries and stay updated on the fast-moving AI landscape.
Where you belong
Be part of SAP Next Gen, a global community for students, universities, schools and educational partners, who are passionate about innovation and technology.
Culture of Collaboration: Partner with experienced SAP colleagues and expert mentors who will support your growth. Grow professionally through personalized mentoring, coaching, and career development support.
Project-driven Experience: Kickstart your career with hands-on learning experience, making an impact from day one by contributing to meaningful projects that help the world run better. You'll have endless learning resources at your fingertips and gain future-ready skills from a variety of virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning sessions, cultivated just for you, and aligned with our learning approach.
Gain Visibility: Build relationships with leaders and peers across teams and functions. Showcase your ideas, skills, and creativity in a global, fast-paced environment. Open doors for future career opportunities within SAP and beyond.
Meet your team - What do we do?
SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), BTP Fabric - Business Services will be responsible for developing a consistent, scalable, and high-quality reusable business capabilities and services. These foundational constructs standardize essential elements - business entities, workflows, data models, and common reusable APIs/services - so that developers can focus on creating value through innovation and extensions in a highly productive way rather than reinventing basic frameworks. By fostering consistency and offering a shared approach for ABAP and non-ABAP based application development on top of BTP, we will enable ecosystems of developers, partners, and customers a unified foundation to deliver tailored, interoperable solutions that address all business needs.
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Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.
We win with inclusion
SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.
SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Compensation Range Transparency : SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP's commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 15 - 62(USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits (https://www.sapnorthamericabenefits.com/en/public/welcome) .
AI Usage in the Recruitment Process
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Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.
Requisition ID: 444150 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
