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

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. 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.

What you’ll do

• As a PhD Intern, you will work with a team of experienced researchers and data scientists taking on challenges posed by SAP customers and product units and providing smart services across and beyond the SAP portfolio.
• Collaborate with the ABAP foundation model team to work and improve upon code assistance models targeting use-cases like code completion, code explanation, unit test generation, and code migration.
• Perform state-of-the-art research to advance Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• Choose from different focus topics: Utilizing external feedback signals; agentic workflows for complex user scenarios; exploit structural information from the codebase.
• 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.

What you bring

• You are a PhD student (f/m/d) at least in your second year or PostDocs, specializing in a related research area.
• 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.
• Proficient in PyTorch, Python, and HuggingFace Transformers, with a good understanding of statistical analysis and shell programming.
• Must be fluent in English.

The duration of the internship is at least 4 months but ideally 6 months and should take place in 2025.

Meet your team

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.

Please keep in mind that hiring for PhD candidates at SAP demands prior approval by the university as well as the supervising professor.

Your set of application documents should contain a cover letter, a resume in table form, school leaving certificates, certificate of enrollment, current university transcript, copies of any academic degrees already earned, and references from former employers if available.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently. 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.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone feels included and can perform at their best.

Requisition ID: 412533 | Work Area: Software-Development Operations | Expected Travel: 0 – 10% | Career Status: Graduate | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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