SAP iXp Intern - Developer Experience

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. 

About the SAP Internship Experience Program

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.

Three reasons to intern at SAP

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. Gain visibility: with 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:

Position title: SAP iXp Intern - Developer Experience 

Location: Newport Beach, California

Expected start date to end date: June 2024 – September 2024 (~3 months)

Generative AI (genAI) evolved a lot in the past years and developer tools like GitHub Copilot are becoming commonplace in modern development organizations. However, genAI bears potential for many other use cases along the entire software development lifecycle and value stream (incl. product management and user experience design roles as well as for cloud software operations / DevOps). This internship project aims at identifying, consolidating and prototyping one of the most promising use cases for SAP.

Tasks for you include requirements engineering starting with user research in SAP development teams. Moreover, you will be part of a larger, global and cross-development unit team, but responsible for the respective detailed software design and PoC development for one or a family of specific use cases. The work will also include evaluating the potential impact for SAP in terms of productivity, job satisfaction and / or other benefits for an organization while taking common product standards and architecture guidelines into account.

This particular project focusses on applying genAI to enable large-scale refactoring and code transformations. Besides showing relevance to SAP development, this position also aims at scientific publications in the software engineering community.

What you bring:

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

· Bachelor or Master in Computer Science at a top STEM university

· Experience as PhD graduate student in software engineering

· Outstanding grades and academic referrals from professors

· Experience in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) as well as

· Commercial Software Development and Cloud Operations

· A data-driven, systemic thinking, and continuous improvement mindset

· Ability to solve complex topics and drive results across board areas at SAP

· Self-driven and proactive mindset

· Excellent team player and collaboration skills in both, industry and academia

· Excellent communication skills with strong empathy

· Fluency in English language (both written and spoken)

· Further qualifications for the role (please indicate if qualification is desired or necessary)

Meet your team:

The Developer Experience team within Engineering & Technology Operations for SAP sets the direction on how SAP will be developing enterprise software in future and thus is pivotal for SAP’s development strategy. It’s on the team to provide our global development organization with the best-possible environment to collaboratively deliver the world's #1 enterprise applications to customers. The team’s success is rooted on a strong collaboration with stakeholders across the board at SAP as well as with industry partners such as Google, GitHub and Microsoft and world-renown academic partners.

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Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and 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: Careers@sap.com.
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 15 - 62 an hour USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 395023 | Work Area:Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Intern | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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