Intern, Product Management, Connecting Clients, Channels and Fulfillment

Sephora is a beauty company focused on empowering customers and teams while reimagining the future of beauty. The Applied AI & Automation Intern will design and build AI solutions for complex business challenges, developing machine learning models, agentic AI solutions, and data science proofs of concept in collaboration with AI engineers, data scientists, and business teams.

What you'll do:

• 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
• Demonstrate our Sephora values: Passion, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect, Teamwork, and Initiative

What they're looking for:

• 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
• Graduating in 2027 or 2028 (undergraduate or graduate degree)

Benefits:

• A 10-week internship program with hands-on learning, personal and professional networking opportunities, and the ability to work on projects that directly impact the business.
• Weekly virtual workshops, networking opportunities, and career panels providing exposure to Sephora's career growth opportunities.
• Intern Optional Summer Shutdown from July 6 - July 9, 2027.
• Remote work location.
• Opportunities to challenge, stretch, and develop your skills.
• Meaningful work that contributes to positive change for consumers, the industry, and society.