AI Intern (Texas)

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes. Our culture encourages new and better ways to accelerate what's next, and varied backgrounds are valued here.

This role is designed as hybrid, with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description

Job Family Definition: Students currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in areas such as Business Analytics, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline. You will apply academic knowledge, analytical thinking, emerging technologies, and creative problem-solving to real business challenges, working with business and technical stakeholders to research, design, prototype, test, and improve solutions.

Management Level Definition: This is an entry-level internship that performs assigned work under the guidance of a supervisor or experienced team members. It contributes to project-based activities and builds practical knowledge of business processes and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support the Strategic Sourcing organization through research, data analysis, process analysis, and project coordination.
• Own or materially contribute to an AI, analytics, or automation project supporting Strategic Sourcing.
• Collaborate with sourcing leaders, commodity managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand business challenges and define structured requirements.
• Gather, organize, and analyze structured and unstructured information, including pricing records, contracts, supplier data, market intelligence, and other business documents.
• Translate sourcing challenges into workflows, data requirements, solution concepts, and project deliverables.
• Research, design, prototype, and test AI-enabled capabilities supporting negotiation preparation, supplier-risk identification, contract intelligence, and sourcing decision support.
• Explore and apply technologies such as generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, workflow automation, and data visualization, where appropriate.
• Develop dashboards, prototypes, user experiences, or decision-support tools that make sourcing information easier to access and use.
• Test AI-generated outputs for accuracy, consistency, traceability, and business usefulness.
• Document solution designs, data sources, assumptions, limitations, testing results, and opportunities for future development.
• Take part in team meetings, project reviews, demonstrations, and periodic feedback sessions.
• Present project results, potential business impact, and recommendations to Strategic Sourcing leadership.
• Complete assigned tasks in a timely manner and deliver work against defined project milestones.
• Follow company requirements for confidentiality, data protection, responsible AI use, and approved technology platforms when handling contracts, pricing, supplier information, personal data, or other business-sensitive content.

Impact and Scope

University students actively enrolled in an accredited college, university, or academic institution and pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant technical, analytical, business, or supply-chain discipline. The intern contributes to project-based initiatives that improve how Strategic Sourcing professionals access information, identify opportunities and risks, prepare for negotiations, and make commercial decisions.

Depending on the project, the work may help sourcing teams:

• Reduce manual effort required to prepare for supplier negotiations.
• Surface historical pricing, commitments, and concessions more efficiently.
• Identify emerging supplier and supply-chain risks earlier.
• Locate and understand important contractual and commercial provisions faster.
• Turn fragmented information into actionable sourcing intelligence.
• Develop reusable AI-enabled approaches that can potentially be applied across additional commodities and sourcing workflows.

What We Can Offer You

Health and Wellbeing: A comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing for team members and their loved ones.

Personal and Professional Development: Specific programs help you reach career goals, whether that means becoming a knowledge expert in your field or applying your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion: HPE celebrates individual uniqueness and gives team members the flexibility to manage work and personal needs.

Accessibility and Equal Opportunity

HPE is committed to an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes decisions based on qualifications, merit, and business need. HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records.