Applied AI & Automation Intern (Remote)

Sephora; Fresno (CA); Remote; USD 39,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Sephora invites applications for the Applied AI & Automation Intern position. This 10-week program develops early career professionals through hands-on learning, weekly virtual workshops, and networking opportunities.

You will design AI solutions, collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists, and contribute to Sephora's evolving human-agentic operating model, including predictive insights and automated workflows.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

SQL

ML models

LLMs

RAG

Embeddings

Vector databases

Tool calling

Agentic frameworks

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/ML/AI/Data Science/Engineering

Tools

Vector databases

Embeddings

Tool calling

Agentic frameworks

Job description

Sephora invites applications for the Applied AI & Automation Intern position. This 10-week program develops early career professionals through hands-on learning, weekly virtual workshops, and networking opportunities.

You will design AI solutions, collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists, and contribute to Sephora's evolving human-agentic operating model, including predictive insights and automated workflows.