2027 Summer Internship (US) - Software Engineer, AI Features & Product Convergence, Zebra Task Manager

Zebra Technologies • Kennesaw, GA

3d • $33 - $41 • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a 2027 summer internship at Zebra Technologies intended to prepare students for entry into the business world and provide insight into careers at the company. Interns receive training, hands-on experience, social and professional development activities, and a professional mentor. The position is hybrid, with three days per week in Zebra’s Kennesaw, Georgia office.

The summer project focuses on developing AI features for Form Creator, converging product capabilities, and prototyping capabilities for new products. The intern will work across the full stack, implementing Java 21/Spring REST endpoints and matching Angular screens, and contribute from design review through production-ready delivery. The work also includes responsible-AI safeguards, shared components or APIs for use across products, testing, CI/CD, documentation, and a live end-of-summer demonstration to product and engineering leadership.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar field.
• Anticipated graduation date by May 2027 for undergraduate students, or May 2027–2028 for master's students.
• Authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Spring/Spring Boot, Angular, or TypeScript.
• Experience with AI/LLM technologies.
• Web application development experience.
• Adaptability and learning agility, including willingness to learn quickly, embrace new tools or methods, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Basic proficiency with Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and basic familiarity with technology solutions.
• Integrity and commitment to ethical behavior and confidentiality.
• Experience with MongoDB or SQL databases, including PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Git/GitHub, unit testing with JUnit or Mockito, and CI/CD.
• Experience with cloud and container technologies such as Google Cloud, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or LLM evaluation.
• Experience using AI coding assistants such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot.
• Interest in retail operations or workforce/task management software.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-assisted authoring features in Form Creator, such as generating draft templates from uploaded policy or SOP documents and suggesting skip logic or validation rules.
• Build a feature that summarizes completed store-walk responses and violations into plain-language findings and recommended follow-up tasks for store and district managers.
• Implement backend REST endpoints in Java 21/Spring and corresponding Angular screens for SWA v2 and Next-Gen /api/v2 APIs.
• Add responsible-AI safeguards, including per-customer enable/disable flags, managed prompts, validation of structured JSON model output, and fallbacks when the AI service is unavailable.
• Build a small evaluation set to measure AI answer quality.
• Help converge Form Creator capabilities across forms, surveys, store walk (SWA), and offline walk products by creating shared components or APIs.
• Help prototype an AI-enabled capability for a new platform product, including product configuration such as modules, permissions, menus, and pages.
• Write unit tests using JUnit 5 and Mockito, deliver work through the Jenkins/SonarQube CI pipeline, and document the work.
• Present a live demonstration to product and engineering leadership at the end of the summer.

Benefits

• Summer Fridays, as applicable with the team.
• 30+ social and professional events in 12 weeks.
• Global immersion with teams and interns.
• Intern allowance, when applicable.
• Zebra Total Rewards may include healthcare, wellness, inclusion networks, continued learning and development, community service days, insurance, compensation, parental leave, an employee assistance program, and paid time off, depending on country and eligibility.
• All Zebra roles are eligible for cash incentive programs; some roles may also be eligible for long-term incentive equity awards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern