2026 U.S Summer Internship Program: Data Platforms - AI Intern

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Job Description

The Data Platforms team designs, builds, and maintains enterprise data platforms and capabilities within Foundation Technology Platform function. We are responsible for ensuring data integrity, system reliability, and mission-critical operational stability organization-wide. Our team is actively leveraging AI technologies to optimize data delivery, enhance platform capabilities, and drive organizational value creation through innovative data-driven services and solutions.

Data Platforms are accelerating their transformation through Agentic AI - a paradigm shift from assistive tools to autonomous digital coworkers. This internship supports our strategic initiative to build scalable, ethical, and reusable agentic systems that drive operational efficiency, data governance, and intelligent automation across the enterprise.

How You Will Contribute:

As a Data Platforms AI Intern, you will:

• Assist in building AI Agents for data platform automation.

• Help design and deploy AI agents with reasoning, planning, and memory

• Work on practical cases in platform operations and digital data engineering

• Contribute to AI-powered data classification and tagging workflows

• Explore emerging AI technologies for data platform applications
  

Internship Development Opportunities:

• Gain hands-on experience in cutting-edge AI systems

• Gain exposure to enterprise-scale deployments

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams driving Takeda’s AI initiative
  

Job Requirements:

• This position will be Hybrid out of the Cambridge, MA office

• Must be pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related field

Exposure to any of these technologies is acceptable - we value learning potential and foundational knowledge.

• Programming: Python, SQL, Java/Scala, or R

• Data Platforms: Apache Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Informatica

• AI/ML Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, or MLflow

• LLMs: OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Llama, Gemini, or Hugging Face Transformers

• Agentic AI: LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI or  OpenAI API

• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP (any data/ML services)

• Databases: PostgreSQL, vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma), or other SQL/NoSQL systems

For Location:

Boston, MA

U.S. Hourly Wage Range:

$21.00 - $46.00

EEO Statement

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Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Paid Intern (Fixed Term) (Trainee)

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

No

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