Job Specifications
Application Deadline
15 March 2026
About Us
Korn Ferry is a global consulting firm that powers performance. We unlock the potential in your people and unleash transformation across your business - synchronizing strategy, operations, and talent to accelerate performance, fuel growth, and inspire a legacy of change. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking companies across every major industry turn to us - for a shared commitment to lasting impact and the bold ambition to Be More Than.
Headquartered In Los Angeles, Our Over 9,000 Colleagues Globally Serve Clients In More Than 50 Countries. We Offer Five Core Capabilities That Span The Full Talent Lifecycle
Organizational Strategy
Assessment and Succession
Talent Acquisition
Leadership Development
Rewards and Benefits
Job Description
Software Engineering Intern | AI Strategy & Transformation
Potential project description (note: may change based on business needs)
Support the development and improvement of an internal application used by consultants to support client engagements
Build and maintain AI pipelines that translate strategic priorities into structured insights and recommended business solution
Develop backend services and APIs to orchestrate data flows, AI models, and rule-based logic used in engagement workflow
Enhance application usability and reliability to improve consultant efficiency and consistency of outputs across engagement
Implement testing, logging, and performance optimizations to ensure the application scales across teams and use case
Partner with data science and consulting teams to translate technical outputs into engagement-ready insights and materials
Job Summary
We are seeking a motivated Software Engineer Intern to join Korn Ferry’s AI Strategy & Transformation team. Working closely with data scientists, product managers, psychometricians, and platform engineers, the intern will help design, prototype, and deliver full-stack applications and production-facing software that support ML/GenAI experiments and people-analytics products. This is a hands-on, learning-focused role: you will build front-end UIs, backend services and integration layers, and receive mentorship on software engineering and cloud deployment best practices.
Why join us
We’re a small, tight-knit team inside Korn Ferry that encourages moving fast, thinking big, and creating real business value. On the AI Strategy & Transformation team you’ll work at the intersection of people science and cutting-edge AI to glean the most actionable insights from complex data. Our work has high-visibility: you’ll collaborate directly with senior product and business leaders, contribute to decisions that influence Korn Ferry’s offerings, and see your ideas go from notebook to production.
Our Data
Korn Ferry maintains a rich collection of people and assessment data (psychometric assessments, multi-rater tools, a pay database, talent movement and organizational datasets). As an engineering intern, you’ll work with these datasets indirectly via secure APIs and data pipelines and learn how software and services enable robust, ethical, and scalable people-analytics solutions.
Context of the Role
This internship offers practical experience building and shipping full-stack components that enable ML/AI workflows and data products. The intern will focus on prototyping productionized features, integrating ML models and data services, and ensuring solutions meet quality, security, and privacy standards. Work will emphasize collaboration with data science colleagues to turn experiments into maintainable, deployable software that delivers business value.
Responsibilities
Design and implement front-end interfaces (React/TypeScript) and responsive UIs that help stakeholders explore ML/AI outputs and data visualizations.
Build and maintain backend services and APIs (Node.js/Express, Python/Flask or FastAPI) to serve models, orchestrate data flows, and provide secure data access.
Integrate ML/GenAI prototypes into application stacks (inference endpoints, model wrappers, model caching and batching) in collaboration with data scientists.
Implement authentication, authorization, data access controls, and follow data governance policies when handling sensitive information.
Package and containerize applications (Docker), and help deploy services to cloud environments (Azure App Services).
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit/integration), and code quality tooling (linters, type checks).
Implement logging, monitoring, and basic observability to help troubleshoot performance and reliability issues in prototypes.
Write clear documentation, README files, and handoff artifacts (architecture notes, deployment runbooks) for engineering and data-platform teams.
Participate in code reviews, sprint ceremonies, and regular one-on-one mentorship meetings to iterate quickly and learn best practices.
Qualifications
Required
Currently pursuing a Bachelors, Master’s or PhD in C
About the Company
Korn Ferry is a global consulting firm that powers performance. We unlock the potential in your people and unleash transformation across your business--synchronizing strategy, operations, and talent to accelerate performance, fuel growth, and inspire a legacy of change. That's why the world's most forward-thinking companies across every major industry turn to us--for a shared commitment to lasting impact and the bold ambition to Be More Than.
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