PhD Intern (f/m/d) - Business AI Research

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., SAP's AI organization is dedicated to seamlessly infusing AI into all enterprise applications, enabling customers, partners, and developers to enhance business processes and generate remarkable business value. Leveraging the cutting-edge developments in AI research along with SAPs unparalleled enterprise data assets offers a distinctive opportunity to explore an uncharted domain within AI research. As a vital part of this organization, our team is dedicated to pioneering transformative advancements in high-value domains, including Foundation Models for structured data and the development of comprehensive grounding for widespread SAP applications through Knowledge Graphs.

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Ihre Aufgaben

• As a PhD Intern you will work with a team of experienced researchers and data scientists taking on challenges posed by the SAP customers and product units and providing smart services across and beyond the SAP portfolio. You will have the chance to work with some of the richest data sets available in the world addressing real-world problems.

• Perform state of the art research to advance Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

• Choose from different focus topics: Foundation Models on Structured, Tabular Data; Business Knowledge Graph construction; Scalable access to business data using LLMs and Knowledge Graphs.

• Publish research results and contribute to research that can be applied to SAP product development.

• Collaborate with academic researchers and cross-functional partners including communicating research plans, progress, and results.

Ihr Profil

• You are a PhD student at least in your second year or PostDocs, specializing in one of our research areas: Foundation Models on Structured Data or LLMs and Knowledge Graphs.

• Experience with a strong foundation in machine learning, including building systems utilizing deep learning, natural language processing, LLMs, Foundation Models, or Knowledge Graphs.

• A strong publication record in recognized ML/NLP conferences or journals such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS.

• Proficient in PyTorch, Python, and HuggingFace Transformers, with a good understanding of statistical analysis and shell programming.

• Must be fluent in English.

Kontakt

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Requisition ID: 410980 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Graduate | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: Virtual - Germany #LI-Hybrid