IXp Summer Intern - Business AI Research Newport , CA

Position Title

SAP iXp Intern - Business AI Research

Newport Beach, CA

June 2026

3 months (Summer 2026)

Full-time - 40 hours per week

We are looking for a highly motivated intern to join our Generative AI team and help advance the development of domain‑specific foundation models for SAP applications. You will work closely with researchers and engineers on techniques such as continuous pre‑training (CPT) and instruction and supervised fine‑tuning (SFT) to adapt large language models to enterprise and SAP‑specific tasks. This is a hands‑on, technical role where you will contribute to real model development efforts, experiments, and tooling that directly impact how AI systems are built and deployed across SAP products.

• Designing and running experiments for continuous pre‑training on domain‑specific corpora
• Developing datasets and pipelines for instruction tuning and supervised fine‑tuning
• Exploring methods for synthetic data generation to improve data coverage and quality
• Building and evaluating benchmarks for SAP‑relevant tasks (e.g., reasoning over structured data, API understanding, technical documentation)
• Analyzing model performance and presenting findings to the team
• Prototyping tooling to improve data processing, evaluation, or training workflows

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's and/or Master's in Computer Science at a top STEM university
• Eligibility:
  Must be currently enrolled, or recently graduated (start date must be within 6 months of graduation) from a coding academy/bootcamp, apprenticeship, associate, bachelor’s, master’s, or JD/PhD program
• Experience as a PhD graduate student in software and modern AI technology
• Remarkable academic track record and experience
• Experience with data science methodology
• A data‑driven, systemic thinking, and continuous improvement mindset
• Ability to solve complex topics and drive results across the board areas at SAP
• Self‑driven and proactive mindset
• Excellent team player and collaboration skills in both industry and academia
• Excellent communication skills with strong empathy
• Fluency in the English language (both written and spoken)

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, etc.), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

The targeted combined range for this position is $26,000–$47,000 USD. The actual amount offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc., as determined through the selection 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. Any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.