Intern, Product Management, Connecting Clients, Channels and Fulfillment

Belong to Something Beautiful

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.  

Company overview: 

At Sephora, we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the ExtraOrdinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty. 

The opportunity: 

Sephora Internships provide an inclusive and comprehensive experience that equips young professionals with the tools needed to align their passions with work. The 10-week internship program develops early career professionals by providing interns with hands-on learning, personal and professional networking opportunities, and the ability to work on projects that directly impact the business. 

Program details: 

An inclusive and engaging experience that develops technical and professional skills through weekly virtual workshops, networking opportunities, and career panels that provide exposure to Sephora's career growth opportunities. 

2027 Program dates: 

• June 14 - August 20, 2027 

• Working hours: 36hrs/week. Monday - Friday, PST 

• July 6 - July 9, 2027: Intern Optional Summer Shutdown 

Position title: 

Intern, Applied AI & Automation 

Your role at Sephora... 

As the Applied AI & Automation Intern, you will design and build AI solutions for complex business challenges. You will work with AI engineers, data scientists, and business teams to take high-value use cases from problem definition and data exploration through a working proof of concept. The role will contribute to Sephora's evolving human-agentic operating model, where AI supports predictive insights, integrated decision support, exception management, and workflow automation. 

What you will accomplish: 

• 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. 

Qualifications & experience: 

• 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. 

Eligibility 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