[Hiring] Intern, Technology, AI Platform Infrastructure @sephora.com

Role Description

As the Intern, Technology, AI Platform Infrastructure, you will join the Cloud, Infrastructure & Platform Engineering team and contribute to the foundations that make AI and agentic solutions reliable, secure, observable, scalable, and easy to adopt. You will partner with platform engineers to turn AI platform concepts into tested infrastructure patterns, automation, operational documentation, and measurable demonstrations.

What you will accomplish

• Learn the current AI platform architecture, infrastructure standards, security expectations, and engineering workflows.
• Partner with cloud, platform, DevOps, SRE, and AI engineering stakeholders to define a clear problem and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Build and test a focused, production-minded infrastructure or automation proof of concept in a controlled non-production environment using infrastructure-as-code, version control, code review, automated testing, and secure configuration practices.
• Instrument the solution with meaningful logs, metrics, traces, or dashboards that show how health, reliability, usage, performance, or cost behavior is detected and measured.
• Evaluate reliability, scalability, operational cost, supportability, failure handling, and recovery tradeoffs, and document findings through setup guidance, runbooks, architecture diagrams, test evidence, and a handoff package.
• Present the project outcome, evidence, lessons learned, and recommended next steps at the internship culmination.
• Demonstrate our Sephora values: Passion, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect, Teamwork, and Initiative.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Foundational programming or scripting experience in Python, Java, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Bash, or a comparable language.
• Basic understanding of Linux, networking, APIs, Git, cloud computing, containers, or CI/CD concepts through coursework, projects, or prior experience.
• Ability to break down problems, learn unfamiliar technology, document work clearly, and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Interest in AI infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, developer experience, or distributed systems.
• Exposure to one or more cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code or CI/CD tools, containers, observability concepts, secure software development, or AI/ML platform technologies.

Requirements

• Graduating in 2027 or 2028 (undergraduate or graduate degree).
• Work schedule must align with 9-5PM, Pacific Standard Time.
• Must permanently reside and work in the U.S.
• Must be open to relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area upon graduation for consideration for full-time hybrid positions.
• Available from June 14 - August 20, 2027.

Benefits

• The target hourly pay for this position is $30.00 - $30.00.
• Caring Community: You’ll collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating and driving the industry forward – together, united in beauty.
• Fulfilling Path: Your career transformation starts here, with opportunities that will challenge, stretch and develop your skills.
• Meaningful Work: As you make an impact on beauty, you’ll feel and see the positive change (consumer, industry, and social) that your individual voice is a part of.