2026 Digital internship

Unilever•Trumbull, CT

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Refreshments, Health & Wellness, and Home & Personal Care products with sales in more than 190 countries. In the United States, some of our iconic brands are: Axe, Degree, Dove, Dove Men+Care, Hellmann’s, Nexxus, Shea Moisture, TRESemmé, and Vaseline. All the preceding brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies. We are a purpose-led and future-fit organization developing our products for peoples’ lives today and for the changing environment tomorrow, aiming to make sustainable living commonplace. Unilever offers vast and exciting career paths within R&D. Creating new innovations, delivering consumer benefits, and enhancing our brands as a force for good – it’s all yours in Unilever R&D. As a digital research intern at Unilever, you will learn how we develop cutting-edge digital tools and generate leading technical insights to drive product innovation within skin care, skin cleansing, hair, or deodorant teams. Your work will drive the development of new technologies, deliver breakthrough cosmetic and health benefits, and bring innovations to life for our consumers. What You’ll Do With guidance from a manager and team of functional experts, summer interns will manage one major summer project on their own in a digital R&D role. This project will address a major technical challenge and opportunity for one of Unilever’s well-known hair, skin cleansing, or skin care brands or businesses. Interns will carry out the project within a team of scientists that supports regional or global Unilever business groups. Possible project topics include: Applying artificial intelligence tools to generate market insights that will guide our product development teams. Guiding strategic approaches to address product quality issues in some of the largest consumer products in the world by modeling processing and formulation variables across numerous data streams. Generating new insights from consumer, clinical, and product application data to elucidate new approaches to delight our customers. In any project, interns will learn to apply data science and other digital approaches to the unique challenges of consumer product development spanning consumer preference, product design, and manufacturing. The work will involve the application of both digital approaches and storytelling to convey the impact of new innovations to the overall Unilever business. This work will have an appreciable on-site component that may extend into working in laboratory and pilot plant facilities. Interns can expect to learn the specific programs or tools needed to execute their research program. They will be given access to numerous data streams and develop ways of working to generate insights from the data. Interns will plan approaches, analyze their data using statistical and graphical tools, and generate predictive models. They will generate input and incorporate feedback from a cultivated network of technical experts within Unilever to enhance the delivery of their project.

Requirements

Undergraduate with sophomore or junior status based on Major in Chemical Engineering or other related major
Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Proven willingness and ability to learn new technical skills
Minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
Ability to conduct an experimental program to generate relevant, high-quality data with subsequent data analysis and interpretation
Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment in order to meet project deadlines
Ability to work with others, communicate effectively, and contribute to cross-functional teams
Willingness to relocate to the Trumbull, CT area for the duration of the internship.

Responsibilities

Manage one major summer project on their own in a digital R&D role.
Carry out the project within a team of scientists that supports regional or global Unilever business groups.
Apply data science and other digital approaches to the unique challenges of consumer product development spanning consumer preference, product design, and manufacturing.
Apply digital approaches and storytelling to convey the impact of new innovations to the overall Unilever business.
Plan approaches, analyze their data using statistical and graphical tools, and generate predictive models.
Generate input and incorporate feedback from a cultivated network of technical experts within Unilever to enhance the delivery of their project.