SAP iXp Intern - AI Scientist

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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

1. Culture of collaboration: meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe and create a thriving personal network.
2. Project-driven experience: gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables. 
3. Gain visibility: with 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: AI Scientist Intern

Location: San Ramon, CA

Expected Start Date: Feb 2024

Contract Duration: 12 months

Work Hours: 40 hours per week

 

Work under the mentorship of other scientists responsible for development of new machine learning models and optimization of existing ML models. Core tasks may include:

• Supporting machine learning research/project and development teams with all aspects around AI algorithms
• Designing and implementing novel machine learning algorithms to process real data
• Applying recent research breakthroughs to real problems to create business value
• Ensuring explainability and ethical integrity of AI algorithms

 

What you 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.

 

Qualified applicants must be in pursuit of (or recently graduated from) a master’s or Ph.D. level degree program studying Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field. Exceptional undergraduate candidates will also be considered.

• Knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of developing productive machine learning-based solutions and/or systems (design, coding, testing, quality assurance) is required:
• Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Information Retrieval & Extraction, and Recommendation Systems
• Knowledge of Python and machine learning software packages such as scikit-learn or TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Basic knowledge about working with very large datasets in distributed Linux/Unix environments is preferred
• The selected candidate must be available to work 40 hours/week for a 6-month term beginning in January 2024

 

Meet your team:

 

We are a small but global team of AI scientists from different academic, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds. The team fosters a collaborative culture where experimentation, learning and sharing knowledge are encouraged. The team also regularly communicates and aligns with product management and engineering teams. As an incubation team, we are constantly coming up with and solving hard problems that not only have tangible business value, they are also highly rewarding personally.

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