Digital Innovation Intern
About The Position
Ingredion is seeking a Digital Innovation Intern to join their R&D team for summer 2027. This role will focus on accelerating the adoption of predictive formulation and digital innovation capabilities within the organization. The intern will collaborate with formulation scientists and digital innovation leaders to explore academic approaches and develop practical digital tools for automated data capture, data quality assessment, feature extraction, predictive modeling, and virtual experimentation. Specific tasks may involve converting images to quantitative measurements, creating machine-learning descriptors, developing AI-powered workflows, and applying large language models (LLM) and agentic approaches to scientific data analysis and knowledge extraction.
Requirements
- Progress towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Food Science, Chemical engineering, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry or a related field.
- Experience using Python or other data descriptive languages for data analysis, model development, workflow automation, or scientific research.
- Ability to organize, analyze, and interpret scientific data and communicate technical results clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Reliable transportation required to get to and from facility each work day.
- Currently possess unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.
- Be a currently enrolled student in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program. If currently enrolled in an undergrad status, must have completed at least two years of coursework with status as a sophomore, junior or non-graduating senior.
Nice To Haves
- Machine learning and predictive modeling
- Artificial Intelligence, LLMs or agentic approaches
- Image analysis and computer vision
- Computational chemistry
- Data visualization and dashboard development
- Design of experiments and statistical analysis
Responsibilities
- Review academic literature, open-source methods, and emerging technologies relevant to predictive formulation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, agentic systems, automated data capture, image analysis, and computational chemistry.
- Develop digital tools that automate data capture, data quality assessment, feature extraction, data preparation, and model development workflows.
- Build predictive models and create virtual experiment tools that allow scientists to explore formulation space and visualize predicted results.
- Explore and implement AI, LLM and agentic approaches to support scientific knowledge extraction, data interpretation, experiment planning, and workflow automation.
- Design reusable code base and create clear technical documentation, user guides, and examples that support future predictive modeling projects.
- Summarize progress, communicate results to project partners, and present recommendations and a final demonstration at the completion of the internship.
Benefits
- Competitive hourly salary based on degree program
- Housing stipends offered to students relocating 51+ miles from the Ingredion work location
- Internship Program Events & Activities – programming catered toward career exploration, networking, and professional development - including the annual Capstone Summit at Ingredion HQ in Westchester, IL
- Intern Coaching Program – pairing with a mentor to coach development and integration in Ingredion’s culture
- Involvement in Ingredion’s Business Resource Groups
- Employee Recognition Program
- Employee Discount Program
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan with a competitive company match
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
