AI Automation Intern: Build Next-Gen Workflows (Hybrid)

US Foods; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Hybrid work model

Job summary

US Foods is seeking an AI Automation Intern to identify and evaluate opportunities to apply agentic AI and automation across business processes. You will work with stakeholders to understand workflows, translate needs into AI-enabled use cases, and help build, test, document, and demonstrate proofs of concept.

The focus is end-to-end process improvement, not just automating tasks. You will document requirements, build proofs of concept, and collaborate with cross-functional teams including

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in business, operations, information systems, computer science, or a related field.
• Must be enrolled in school during the internship.
• Typically, students between their junior and senior years or between their first and second years of graduate school will be considered.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and process-documentation skills.
• Ability to work with business stakeholders to understand workflows and translate business problems into structured requirements.
• Basic understanding of AI, automation, data, or software concepts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to document current-state processes, pain points, handoffs, manual work, and decision requirements.
• Identify and prioritize business-process opportunities where agentic AI, copilots, workflow automation, or intelligent agents could improve speed, quality, cost, control, or associate experience.
• Translate business needs into clear use cases, requirements, process flows, prompts, agent instructions, and success measures.
• Build and test proofs of concept using approved AI and automation tools.
• Evaluate agent outputs for accuracy, reliability, usability, and alignment with business requirements.
• Document data sources, integrations, controls, human-review points, risks, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Work with business, technology, data, security, legal, and governance partners to validate solution feasibility and responsible AI requirements.
• Develop business cases that describe expected benefits, implementation effort, process impact, and measures of success.
• Prepare demonstrations, findings, recommendations, and implementation roadmaps for business and technology leaders.
• Capture reusable patterns, lessons learned, and documentation that can support future agentic AI opportunities.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Written communication

Process documentation

Stakeholder collaboration

AI/software concepts

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in related field

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Power Automate

SharePoint

Teams

Job description

US Foods is seeking an AI Automation Intern to identify and evaluate opportunities to apply agentic AI and automation across business processes. You will work with stakeholders to understand workflows, translate needs into AI-enabled use cases, and help build, test, document, and demonstrate proofs of concept.

The focus is end-to-end process improvement, not just automating tasks. You will document requirements, build proofs of concept, and collaborate with cross-functional teams including