Open Jobs Intern, Applied AI & Automation

Belong to Something Beautiful

At Sephora beauty is about feeling seen valued and empowered individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others celebrating diversity and inclusivity unlocking your potential and making a difference every day. Together we belong to something beautiful.

Company overview:

At Sephora we inspire our customers empower our teams and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued and differences are celebrated. Every day our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the ExtraOrdinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

The opportunity:

Sephora Internships provide an inclusive and comprehensive experience that equips young professionals with the tools needed to align their passions with work. The 10-week internship program develops early career professionals by providing interns with hands-on learning personal and professional networking opportunities and the ability to work on projects that directly impact the business.

Program details:

An inclusive and engaging experience that develops technical and professional skills through weekly virtual workshops networking opportunities and career panels that provide exposure to Sephoras career growth opportunities.

2027 Program dates:

June 14 - August 20 2027

Working hours: 36hrs/week. Monday - Friday PST

July 6 - July 9 2027: Intern Optional Summer Shutdown

Position title:

Intern Applied AI & Automation

Your role at Sephora...

As the Applied AI & Automation Intern you will design and build AI solutions for complex business challenges. You will work with AI engineers data scientists and business teams to take high-value use cases from problem definition and data exploration through a working proof of concept. The role will contribute to Sephoras evolving human-agentic operating model where AI supports predictive insights integrated decision support exception management and workflow automation.

What you willaccomplish:

Design train evaluate and iterate on machine learning models for real-world business use cases.

Build agentic AI solutions capable of reasoning retrieving information using tools and orchestrating multi-step workflows.

Rapidly develop data science and AI proofs of concept using Python SQL machine learning frameworks and enterprise data.

Build retrieval-augmented generation pipelines tool-calling capabilities multi-agent workflows and context-aware AI applications.

Perform data exploration feature engineering model experimentation validation and error analysis.

Demonstrate our Sephora values: Passion Innovation Expertise Balance Respect Teamwork and Initiative.

Qualifications & experience:

Pursuing a Bachelors Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Data Science Engineering Statistics or a related quantitative field.

Strong hands-on programming skills in Python and SQL.

Demonstrated experience building and evaluating machine learning or deep learning models.

Experience developing applications with large language models retrieval-augmented generation embeddings vector databases tool calling or agentic frameworks.

Strong curiosity technical depth and willingness to experiment with emerging AI technologies.

Eligibility requirements:

Graduating in 2027 or 2028 (undergraduate or graduate degree)

Work schedule must align with 9-5PM Pacific Standard Time

Must permanently reside and work in the U.S.

Must be open to relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area upon graduation for consideration for full-time hybrid positions*

Available from June 14 - August 20 2027