SAP iXp Intern AI Engineer

We help the world run better
At SAP we keep it simple: you bring your best to us and well bring out the best in you. Were builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce and we need your unique talents to help shape whats next. The work is challenging but it matters. Youll find a place where you can be yourself prioritize your wellbeing and truly belong. Whats in it for you Constant learning skill growth great benefits and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

About the SAP Internship Experience Program

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAPs 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 youll have a global network of SAP leaders entrepreneurs and career development opportunities at your fingertips.

What youll do:

Position title: SAP iXp Intern AI Engineer Intern (Customer Success)

Location: Chicago Office (Hybrid)

Internship Duration: 12 months

Working hours: 20-40 hours/week

As an AI Engineer Intern you will support the exploration prototyping and implementation of AI-driven solutions that improve customer outcomes and internal productivity within SAP Customer Success. Youll work with engineers and product stakeholders to build small features run experiments and document learnings. Because AI evolves quickly adaptability curiosity and practical problem-solving are essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in developing and validating AI use cases that improve operational effectiveness.
• Participate in the lifecycle of AI projects from ideation and prototyping to pilot deployment under guidance.
• Support integration of AI capabilities into existing tools and services (APIs microservices).
• Research emerging AI trends (LLMs retrieval evaluation) and summarize applicability to SAP scenarios.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation experiment reports and implementation guides

What you bring:

Were looking for someone who takes initiative perseveres and stay curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong iterate fast and deploy to production quickly. The ability to learn quickly and adapt to new tools and methods is essential.

• Education:Pursuing a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or related field. Exceptions possible for candidates demonstrating strong resourcefulness and creative technical problem-solving.
• 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 bachelors masters or JD/PhD program
• Technical Skills:
  • Programming:Comfortable with Python; familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript and basic frontend development is a plus.
  • AI & Machine Learning:Coursework or practical experience with open-source ML/LLM frameworks (e.g. PyTorch Hugging Face LangChain or LlamaIndex).
  • Data:Basic understanding of data analysis SQL and use of notebooks; exposure to evaluation/metrics is a plus.
• Other Skills:
  • Strong problem-solving skills and bias to practical application.
  • Clear communication and teamwork; willingness to learn from feedback.
  • Business curiosity to connect AI work to customer and process outcomes.

Helpful Qualifications:

• Experience with REST APIs and simple backend services (e.g. FastAPI) and version control (Git).
• Experience with building full-stack solutions including UX (React common web technologies).
• Exposure to cloud platforms (SAP BTP Azure GCP or AWS) containers (Docker) and CI basics.
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): embeddings vector stores chunking and prompting.
• Knowledge of SAP technologies is a plus (e.g. SAP BTP AI Core/Launchpad SAP HANA Cloud/SAP Datasphere).
• Prior involvement in student projects hackathons or agile teams; comfort writing unit tests and docs.

Helpful Additional Skills:

• Interest in information retrieval and evaluation (offline/online tests A/B basics guardrails).
• Basic understanding of secure coding and data privacy concepts.
• Full-stack familiarity (React or similar) to build lightweight internal UIs.
• Experience building small internal SDKs templates or scripts to improve developer productivity.
• Background in UX prototyping or user research to validate AI workflows

Meet your team:

This role offers hands-on experience at the forefront of applied AI within an enterprise contextcontributing to real-world solutions while learning how to ship responsibly measure impact and collaborate across teams.

#SAPNextGen

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
SAPs 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:

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

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: SAPbelieves the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAPs 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) actual amount to be offered to the successful candidatewill be within that range dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education skillsexperience scope ofthe role location etc. as determinedthrough theselection 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.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process.

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 437743 Work Area: Customer Service and Support Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Student Employment Type: Limited Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid