SAP iXp Summer Intern - Business AI Research [Newport Beach, CA]

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About the SAP Internship Experience Program

 

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.

 

Three reasons to intern at SAP

 

Culture of collaboration: Meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe, and create a thriving personal network.

Project-driven experience: gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables. 

Gain visibility: with the SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you’ll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs, and career development opportunities at your fingertips.

 

What you’ll do:

 

Position title: SAP iXp Intern - Business AI Research

Location: Newport Beach, CA 

Expected Start Date: June 2026

Contract Duration: 3 months (Summer 2026)

Work hours: Full-time - 40 hours per week

 

We are looking for a highly motivated intern to join our Generative AI team and help advance the development of domain-specific foundation models for SAP applications. You will work closely with researchers and engineers on techniques such as continuous pre-training (CPT) and instruction and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to adapt large language models to enterprise and SAP-specific tasks.

 

This is a hands-on, technical role where you will contribute to real model development efforts, experiments, and tooling that directly impact how AI systems are built and deployed across SAP products.

 

Projects may include:

• Designing and running experiments for continuous pre-training on domain-specific corpora
• Developing datasets and pipelines for instruction tuning and supervised fine-tuning
• Exploring methods for synthetic data generation to improve data coverage and quality
• Building and evaluating benchmarks for SAP-relevant tasks (e.g., reasoning over structured data, API understanding, technical documentation)
• Analyzing model performance and presenting findings to the team
• Prototyping tooling to improve data processing, evaluation, or training workflows

 

What you bring:

 

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

 

• Education: Bachelor's and/or Master's in Computer Science at a top STEM university
• 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
• Experience as a PhD graduate student in software and modern AI technology
• Remarkable academic track record and experience
• Experience with data science methodology
• A data-driven, systemic thinking, and continuous improvement mindset 
• Ability to solve complex topics and drive results across the board areas at SAP 
• Self-driven and proactive mindset
• Excellent team player and collaboration skills in both industry and academia
• Excellent communication skills with strong empathy
• Fluency in the English language (both written and spoken) 

 

Meet your team:

 

The ABAP Foundation Model team is pioneering AI innovations within the SAP ecosystem. It is an integral part of the Generative AI foundation within Business AI at SAP. We focus on cre