SAP SAP iXp Intern - Data Science 

United States, Virginia 

702165814

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.: with the SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you’ll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs, and career development opportunities at your fingertips.

What you’ll do:

Expected start date:May 2025

Duration:4- 6 months

Working hours:Full-time (40 hrs./week)

As a PhD Intern, you will work with a team of experienced researchers and data scientists, taking on challenges posed by the SAP customers and product units and providing smart services across and beyond the SAP portfolio. You will have the chance to work with large amounts of real-world data, containing the full codebase of SAP systems

• Collaborate with the ABAP foundation model team to work and improve upon code assistance models targeting use-cases like code completion, code explanation, unit test generation, code migration, and several others
• Perform state-of-the-art research to advance Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Choose from different focus topics: Utilizing external feedback signals (such as unit tests, static code checks) both at training and inference time; agentic workflows to handle complex user scenarios such as unit test generation; exploit structural information from the codebase, such as ASTs or data flow analysis, to utilize either directly in the model architecture or in other parts of the workflow (e.g. context injection)
• Publish research results and contribute to research that can be applied to SAP product development. Support in a hands-on fashion the integration of your results into our product
• Collaborate with academic researchers and cross-functional partners, including communicating research plans, progress, and results

What you bring:

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

• Education: You are a PhD student (f/m/d) at least in your second year or PostDoc, specializing in a related research area
• 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, bachelor’s, master’s or JD/PhD program
• Experience with a strong foundation in machine learning, including building systems utilizing deep learning, natural language processing, LLMs, Foundation Models, or Knowledge Graphs
• A strong publication record in recognized ML/NLP conferences or journals such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS
• Proficient in PyTorch, Python, and HuggingFace Transformers, with a good understanding of statistical analysis and shell programming. Experience with distributed training, especially NVIDIA NeMo, is a plus
• Must be fluent in English

The duration of the internship is at least 4 months but ideally 6 months and should take place in 2025.

Your set of application documents should contain a cover letter, a resume in table form, school leaving certificates, certificate of enrollment, current university transcript of records, copies of any academic degrees already earned, and if available, references from former employers (including internships). Please also describe your experience and skills in foreign languages and computer programs / programming languages.

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