AI & Data Scientist Intern

About Ingredion

Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference. Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create. Location: Westchester, IL Workplace type: Hybrid The AI & Data Scientist Intern will be assisting in the managing, designing, developing, and deploying of scalable and robust artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for various business problems to enable digital transformation and innovation across various functions. This role demands a candidate with a strong background in AI/ML design, development and, architecture of AI/ML, technologies, and partnership with technical and non-technical stakeholders. This role will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, design and document impactful solutions that optimize processes for the identified opportunities. This role will work with a team of AI/ML engineers, architects, consultants, and data scientists across all areas of Ingredion data science and AI, potentially including teams involved with crop science yields, factory reaction yield optimization, design of experiments in formulating new products, and demand forecasting.

What you will do

Build prototype solutions using agentic AI frameworks to solve complex business problems to drive automated decision making such as order processing, forecasting projections, financial reconciliation, batch processing, Analyze requirements for ML projects supporting Ingredion functional areas (demand planning, experimental ingredient formulations, manuf