COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That’s why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people’s lives.

Contract Duration: 6 months

Contract Hours: 40 hours/week

Anticipated Start Date: December 2020

Office Location: Palo Alto, CA

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

Technology & Innovation (T&I) is responsible for SAP’s overall platform and technology development such as SAP Cloud Platform and SAP HANA. In addition, T&I drives the incubation and adoption of intelligent technologies like Analytics, SAP Leonardo Machine Learning and IoT across SAP’s product portfolio. The T&I board area is also in charge of SAP’s global innovation agenda and builds new business model- and market driven innovations to help customers realize the most business value.

SAP Leonardo Machine Learning is part of SAP’s intelligent technologies portfolio and one of the key drivers of the Intelligent Enterprise. It is our mission to infuse all enterprise applications with machine learning and to empower our customers to make the most of their business data. Our team is located in Germany, France, Israel, Singapore, India, and the US and exemplifies a start-up like, innovative work environment.

As an Intern Full-Stack Developer in our Conversational AI team, you use your advanced JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Java, and Python skills to navigate our tech-stack of frontend-, backend-, and NLP-applications. You work closely with product owners to understand the product requirements, designers to implement the user interface of our platform with modern tools, and with data scientists to industrialize the machine-learning NLP workers.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• Work out of our open workspace in the heart of Silicon Valley
• Be part of a vibrant intern community on the SAP Palo Alto campus (monthly events, regular community lunches, networking sessions, expert presentations)
• Connect with world leading software engineers, become part of the worldwide SAP network of experts, partners, and customers, have an extraordinary executive visibility
• Free lunch, ice cream, beverages and coffee, onboarding assistance and subsidy for public transport

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Collaborate with experienced designers to iterate on the platform
• Work with data scientists to build and implement machine-learning features
• Build efficient and reusable frontend systems
• Build robust and scalable backend systems
• Find and address performance issues
• Participate in design and code reviews

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Pursuing Bachelors, Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science or related field.
• Commanding grasp of HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
• Proven ability to work with: Java, Python, Ruby and/or JavaScript
• Good understanding of REST APIs and their development
• A real passion for a clean and structured code, and communication about best-practices
• Excellent English communication skills

Preferred

• Experience with web applications using React & Redux
• Proven experience with test automation and continuous integration
• Experience with natural language understanding technologies and prior experience with building bots on https://cai.tools.sap is a huge plus

WHAT YOU GET FROM US

Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own. A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If you’re searching for a company that’s dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment – apply now_._

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you 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 (Americas: Careers.NorthAmerica@sap.com or Careers.LatinAmerica@sap.com, APJ: Careers.APJ@sap.com, EMEA: Careers@sap.com).

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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SAP is one of the biggest business software companies in the world. We collaborate every day to help make the world run better and improve people's lives. Every day, we help companies and organizations of all sizes and industries to run their businesses profitably, to adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.