2026 Intern, Tech Incubation & Acceleration (Spring/Summer/Fall)
About The Position
You are passionate about evangelizing and realizing a technology vision for products that are beyond the horizon. In this role, you will be researching new emerging technologies, developing business cases, and driving pivotal academic and startup collaboration initiatives in new technology areas. You will work closely with cross functional SRA teams, university professors and researchers, startup founders, and SRA researchers to identify, mature, and commercialize nascent technologies. You are a highly motivated self-starter who will contribute significantly to defining problem statements, creating roadmaps, catalyze building irrefutable evidence for technology viability, defining milestones and success metrics, and driving projects with aggressive schedules to completion.
Requirements
- Pursuing a Ph.D. or MS in a relevant technology field or MBA at a top ranked university
- Master’s degree in a relevant technology field (e.g. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, other etc.) (past technology, consulting, or strategy work experience preferred)
- Exposure to several technologies, including but not limited to: Mobile, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robotics, Health/Medical Tech, Computer Vision, Advanced Materials, etc.
- Positive attitude and energy, imagination, resilience, flexibility and resourcefulness.
- Clear communication skills with the ability to adapt to the audience and situation.
- Strong analytical skills to build deliberate, objective recommendations and respond to challenges and objections.
- Structured thinking to navigate ambiguous technological, organizational and scheduling situations.
- Resilience to overcome hurdles and address failures with alternative paths.
- Ability to rally the team to believe in the technology vision and execute on tight deadlines.
Responsibilities
- Identify and research emerging technologies and evaluate the associated product and business opportunities that enable Samsung to deliver new and exciting value to consumers.
- Build compelling business cases for partnership, investment, or M&A into new technologies and entry into new market segments and present to executive leaders.
- Be a significant contributor to SRA’s academic and startup collaboration programs, including driving program deliverables across technical analysis, early-stage technology research and PoC development, and risk mitigation.
- Partner with SRA teams on internal innovation programs, and support project ideation and scoping.
- Support efforts to track project milestones and impact, and present and demonstrate the research outputs to executive leaders.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
