2027 Summer Internship (US) - AI

Location: Lincolnshire, Illinois

Overview

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

What We're Looking For

The purpose of this internship is to prepare students for entry into the business world by providing a thorough understanding of the various functions of the Zebra Technologies organization. The program is designed to provide students with experiences that provide insights into a career with Zebra. Students will be positioned for success with training and hands-on experiences, invited to social and development activities, and provided a professional mentor relationship.

The CTO’s Solutions Startup team exists to identify, evaluate, and incubate new business ventures for Zebra — spotting emerging pain points across industry verticals, validating them against real customer evidence, and developing the most promising into new solutions and markets. To do this at scale, the team is building an AI engine powered by Claude — an intelligent knowledge base and analysis pipeline that ingests source material (customer interviews, market and competitive research, internal strategy documents) and turns it into structured, cross-linked intelligence.

On top of that knowledge base, a suite of Claude-driven commands performs repeatable analyses end-to-end: pulling data, summarizing large documents, extracting findings, synthesizing them into analysis write-ups, and generating charts and briefs that feed real venture decisions.

US Summer Internship Benefits

• Summer Fridays, As Applicable with Your Team
• 30+ Social and Professional Events in 12 Weeks
• Global Immersion with Your Teams and Interns
• Intern Allowance (when applicable)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Onboard New Data Sources: Integrate and ingest diverse data sources (document libraries, interview transcripts, market/competitive documents, third-party feeds) into the ingestion pipeline, including mapping structures, access paths, and refresh cadences.
• Build & Test Source Connectors: Develop robust connectors handling modern authentication, change/delta detection, and parsing of attachments and binary files.
• Run & Refine Ingestion Workflows: Automate and orchestrate pipeline runs, generating summary/synthesis pages and utilizing version tracking to reconcile potential drift or contradictions between sources.
• Develop Claude-Driven Commands: Design and write automated analysis commands that manage advanced knowledge tasks (such as document chunking, extraction of core findings, and structured synthesis).
• Optimize Prompt Engineering: Research, draft, and rigorously test prompt templates and orchestration scripts, moving candidate prompts from draft to robust production environments.
• Build Supporting Automation: Create utility scripts in Python, establish seamless data-refresh flows, update reporting dashboards (e.g., via PowerPoint or Power Automate), and render dynamic HTML/PDF briefs.
• Maintain System Quality & Governance: Curate metadata taxonomies (industry verticals, solution capabilities), execute routine connector and schema health audits, and document APIs to ensure long-term system sustainability.
• Develop planning, organizational and leadership skills
• Increase technology knowledge and skills, especially as it relates to Zebra's product portfolio.
• Manage team-based work assignments
• Practice interpersonal skills to connect with day-to-day business contacts through follow-up activities

Minimum Qualifications

• Current enrollment in an undergraduate/graduate (MS/MA) degree program in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Business Administration or similar
• Must have an anticipated graduation date between May 2027-May 2028
• Must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future