2027 Summer Internship (US) Software Engineer, AI Features & Product Convergence, Zebra Task Manager

Overview:

At Zebra we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customers and partners needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen heard valued and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations their employees and those they serve.

Youll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care aboutlocally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

What Were Looking For:

The purpose of this internship is to prepare students for entry into the business world by providing a thorough understanding of the various functions of the Zebra Technologies organization. The program is designed to provide students with experiences that provide insights into a career with Zebra. Students will be positioned for success with training and hands-on experiences invited to social and development activities and provided a professional mentor relationship.

Summer Project: New AI features in Form Creator product convergence and new products:
AI-assisted authoring: design and build new Zebra AI (ZAI) features in Form Creator the tool HQ users use to build store walks audits and surveys. Today ZAI can generate questions answer options ratings translations and rephrased text; the intern will extend it for example to turn an uploaded policy
or SOP document into a complete draft template or to suggest skip logic and validation rules.
AI insights from results: build a feature that summarizes completed walk responses and violations into plain-language findings and recommended follow-up tasks for store and district managers.
Full-stack delivery: implement the backend REST endpoints in Java 21 / Spring (SWA v2 and Next-Gen /api/v2 APIs) and the matching Angular screens from design review through production-ready code.
Responsible AI: add guardrails such as per-customer enable/disable flags managed prompts validation of the models structured (JSON) output and fallbacks when the AI service is unavailable; build a small evaluation set to measure answer quality.
Product convergence: help bring Form Creator capabilities together across our forms surveys store walk (SWA) and offline walk products so a new feature is built once as a shared component or API and works in every product.
New products: help prototype an AI-enabled capability for a new product on the platform including its product configuration (modules permissions menus and pages).
Quality and demo: write unit tests (JUnit 5 Mockito) ship through our Jenkins/SonarQube CI pipeline document the work and present a live demo to product and engineering leadership at the end of the summer.

US Summer Internship Benefits:
Summer Fridays As Applicable With Your Team
30 Social and Professional Events in 12 Weeks
Global Immersion With Your Teams and Interns
Intern Allowance (when applicable)

This position requires hybrid work (3 days/week in office) in the Kennesaw GA office.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Current enrollment in an undergraduate/graduate degree program in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or similar
• Must have an anticipated graduation date by May 2027 or (Masters-May 2027-2028)
• Must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Spring / Spring Boot Angular or Type Script
• Experience with AI/LLM technologies
• Web application development
• Adaptability and Learning Agility Willingness to learn quickly embrace new tools or methods and thrive in a dynamic fast-paced environment
• Technical Skills Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel Word PowerPoint) and basic familiarity with technology solutions
• Integrity Commitment to ethical behavior and confidentiality
• MongoDB or SQL databases (PostgreSQL)
• Git/GitHub unit testing (JUnit Mockito) and CI/CD
• Cloud and containers: Google Cloud Docker Kubernetes
• Prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or LLM evaluation
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g. Cursor GitHub Copilot)
• Interest in retail operations or workforce/task management software

Salary: USD $33.00-$40.50/hour

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Pay Range:

$0.00 - $0.00 Hourly

Zebra Total Rewards:

Zebra Total Rewards includes more than just pay and is structured to meet the needs of our changing global business and evolving talent. We are committed to providing our employees with a benefits program that is comprehensive and competitive including healthcare wellness inclusion networks and continued learning and development offerings. We offer community service days in addition to the traditional insurances compensation parental leave employee assistance program and paid time off offerings depending on the country where you work.

Salary offered will vary depending on your location job-related skills knowledge and experience.

Additionally all Zebra roles are eligible for cash incentive programs. For example sales roles have additional opportunity to earn substantial variable compensation tied to quota most other roles the Zebra annual cash incentive program links Company and individual performance together. Some roles may also be eligible for long-term incentive equity awards.

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