Year Round 2025 - Customer Advisory Sizing Intern
Year Round 2025 - Customer Advisory Sizing Intern
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Job Description
Nice to meet you!
Were the leader in data and AI. Through our software and services we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence and questions into answers.
Were also a debtfree multibilliondollar organization on our path to IPOreadiness.If youre looking for a dynamic fulfilling internship coupled with flexibility and worldclass employee experience youll find it here.
What youll do
Looking for *that* internship The gamechanging one thatll help you learn grow and chart your path forward Youll find it at SAS. Our interns arent coffee runners they do real meaningful work. Our awardwinning internship program is focused on development culture and community. Well help you grow professionally find (or further) your passion and make memorable connections that last beyond the summer.
The Global Performance and Sizing team is responsible for evaluating the performance of SAS products translating into customer facing deliverables and service levels. The performance aspect of the team is tasked with evaluating performance by designing and executing automated test suites at customer scale for a given SAS product. Outputs include performance briefs 2to3page papers summarizing performance and system metrics and best practices for optimizing performance of SAS products.
Downstream of performance is hardware sizings. To deploy SAS products SAS customers and 3rd party integrators need to know the computing capacity required to efficiently/performantly run SAS products be it onpremise or incloud environments. Performance benchmarks provide quantitative data points (to sizing) which are used in the design of sizing algorithms and sizing guidelines.
Customer sizing requests are workload specific queries from customers (via presales teams) seeking SAS guidance on hardware capacity planning. Sizings are unique to each customer/product/solution and based on workload dynamics including input data sizes user concurrency processing requirements etc. Each sizing request (over 3000 in 2024 gets evaluated by sizing team for which a custom hardware sizing e.g. nodes cores memory storage etc. is created and shared with presales teams to review and interpret with SAS customers.
The Global Performance and Sizing team is a hardware/performance centric team if you love computing at its core this is the team for you!
As an intern you might:
- Shadow performance and sizing engineers to learn the principles concepts tools technology and inputs to service SAS customer sizing requests
- Monitor sizing queue handoff requests where appropriate and/or own individual sizing requests
- Participate in the design or refresh of existing tooling documentation and/or guidelines
- Recommend develop and implement automated tooling to optimize workflows
Required Qualifications
- Degree Type: Bachelors
- Targeted majors: Compute Science and related fields
- Desire to learn and apply computing concepts and technologies for servicing SAS customers via hardware sizing requests
- Desire to learn the computing requirements and sizing concepts for SAS products and solutions
- Youre a college student enrolled in an accredited program not graduating prior to December 2025.
- Youre curious passionate authentic and accountable. These are ourvaluesand influence everything we do.
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
- Leadership abilities. Your past experiences demonstrate youll take initiative and go above and beyond the call of duty.
- Youre interested in the future of Analytics and embrace technology.
Preferred Qualifications
- Passion for learning and working with computing hardware and terminology (cores memory storage NFS etc.
- Prior experience or passion for learning SAS products and solutions
- Prior experience or passion for learning cloud computing such as Azure AWS or Google
- Understanding or passion for learning about Kubernetes
- Confident programming skills in Python
- Customer centricwith a customer first mentality.
Location
This internship will be a hybrid position based in Cary NC with the option to be fully remote.
Internship dates:
May 20 August 8 2025:Fulltime during the Summer 35hr/week)
August 9 and onward: PartTime during the school semester 1520hr/week)
Perks of the job
- Work with (and learn from) the best. As a SAS intern youll get face time with our top executives!
- Free SAS programming training and certification.
- At SAS flexible work is the norm. Want to work remotely Thats cool. Prefer a hybrid mix of sweatpants and inperson collaboration Thats great too.
- We work hard but we like to play hard too. Enjoy hackathons social events and other opportunities to connect engage.
- Your wellbeing matters and thats why we support all dimensions of your wellbeing by offering programs that reduce stress and distractions to help you stay healthy and productive.This includes an onsite and remote Work/Life Center staffed by masters level social workers and an Employee Assistance Program.
Diverse and inclusive
At SAS its not about fitting into our culture its about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership all the way up to the top; and its essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.
Additional Information
To qualify applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require now or in the future sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity age national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.
Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
SAS only sends emails from verified sas email addresses and never asks for sensitive personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from or on behalf of SAS please contact
Pay Transparency: The hourly rate for SAS internships is determined by the applicants year in school and the position they are hired into. Hourly rates range from $15 $31 for associates/bachelors level positions and $29 $49/hour for masters/Ph.D positions. Internship roles are not eligible for bonus.
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