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The US Foods Summer Internship Program provides a forum for students to apply classroom skills and academic training in a real-world business environment. In addition to being assigned business-impacting projects throughout the summer, students will be matched with a manager who will meet with them on a regular basis to provide direction on assignments as well as deliver performance feedback and a mentor who will be available to offer day-to-day guidance and support.Interns will also get exposure to US Foods executive leadership; have an opportunity to participate in learning and social events with other interns across business functions and have an opportunity to deliver an end of summer presentation to showcase their accomplishments with key business leaders.
US Foods internships are full-time paid positions (40 hours per week from June - August) with the possibility of transitioning to a full-time position post-graduation dependent on availability and overall performance.
This position has been segmented as Hybrid meaning the work is a combination of onsite and remote.
Please note: We are unable to provide internships to students that require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., OPT, F-1, H-1B or any other visa status) now or in the future.
[For Rosemont based internships only] Local candidates are encouraged to apply. For qualified students whose permanent home of record is located outside 50 miles from US Foods Corporate HQ, a sign-on bonus will be offered to partially offset housing costs for the summer.
BASIC PURPOSE:
The AI Automation Intern identifies and evaluates opportunities to apply agentic AI and automation across business processes. The role works directly with business stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, manual activities, and decision points; translate them into potential AI-enabled solutions; and help build, test, document, and demonstrate proofs of concept. The focus is improving end-to-end business processes—not providing administrative or operational support to the Enterprise Platforms team.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Partner with business stakeholders to document current-state processes, pain points, handoffs, manual work, and decision requirements.
- Identify and prioritize business-process opportunities where agentic AI, copilots, workflow automation, or intelligent agents could improve speed, quality, cost, control, or associate experience.
- Translate business needs into clear use cases, requirements, process flows, prompts, agent instructions, and success measures.
- Build and test proofs of concept using approved AI and automation tools.
- Evaluate agent outputs for accuracy, reliability, usability, and alignment with business requirements.
- Document data sources, integrations, controls, human-review points, risks, assumptions, and dependencies.
- Work with business, technology, data, security, legal, and governance partners to validate solution feasibility and responsible AI requirements.
- Develop business cases that describe expected benefits, implementation effort, process impact, and measures of success.
- Prepare demonstrations, findings, recommendations, and implementation roadmaps for business and technology leaders.
- Capture reusable patterns, lessons learned, and documentation that can support future agentic AI opportunities.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, operations, information systems, computer science, engineering, data analytics, or a related field.
- Must be enrolled in school during the internship.
- Typically, students between their junior and senior years or between their first and second years of graduate school will be considered.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and process-documentation skills.
- Ability to work with business stakeholders to understand workflows and translate business problems into structured requirements.
- Basic understanding of AI, automation, data, or software concepts.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams, learn new tools quickly, and communicate findings clearly.
PREFFERED SKILLS:
- Exposure to generative AI, agentic AI, copilots, prompt engineering, workflow automation, or low-code development.
- Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Power Automate, SharePoint, Teams, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with process mapping, requirements gathering, business analysis, Lean, or continuous-improvement methods.
- Experience analyzing data, developing business cases, or defining measurable outcomes.
- Understanding of responsible AI concepts, including data privacy, security, governance, accuracy, and human oversight.
- Ability to create clear process flows, demonstrations, presentations, and technical or business documentation.
- Curiosity about how AI can redesign end-to-end business processes rather than simply automate individual tasks.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must have readily available access to high-speed internet
- Must have regular, reliable method of transportation to commute to US Foods’ location
RELATIONSHIPS INTERNAL/EXTERNAL MAY INCLUDE:
- Internal: Core Team, Internal Business Clients
- External: Vendors
***EOE – Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Age/Genetic Information/Protected Veteran/Disability Status***
Skills Required
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in business, operations, information systems, computer science, engineering, data analytics, or a related field
- Must be enrolled in school during the internship
- Typically between junior and senior year of undergraduate study or first and second year of graduate school
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and process-documentation skills
- Ability to work with business stakeholders to understand workflows and translate business problems into structured requirements
- Basic understanding of AI, automation, data, or software concepts
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams, learn new tools quickly, and communicate findings clearly
- Readily available access to high-speed internet
- Regular, reliable transportation to commute to the US Foods location
- Exposure to generative AI, agentic AI, copilots, prompt engineering, workflow automation, or low-code development
- Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Power Automate, SharePoint, Teams, or similar tools
- Familiarity with process mapping, requirements gathering, business analysis, Lean, or continuous-improvement methods
- Experience analyzing data, developing business cases, or defining measurable outcomes
- Understanding of responsible AI concepts, including data privacy, security, governance, accuracy, and human oversight
- Ability to create process flows, demonstrations, presentations, and technical or business documentation
- Curiosity about redesigning end-to-end business processes with AI
US Foods Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about US Foods and has not been reviewed or approved by US Foods.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage with multiple plan options and day-one eligibility in many roles is highlighted as a relative strong point. Union agreements and company materials reinforce that health coverage is a core part of the total rewards package.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives such as overtime, case/stop pay, and uncapped commissions often boost earnings in delivery, warehouse, and sales roles. Earnings can rise notably when hours are heavy or targets are met.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan is standard, and recent union contracts add pension coverage in some locations. Together these programs support longer-term financial security.
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What We Do
US Foods is one of America’s great food companies and a leading foodservice distributor, partnering with approximately 300,000 restaurants and foodservice operators to help their businesses succeed. With 28,000 associates and more than 70 locations, US Foods provides its customers with a broad and innovative food offering and a comprehensive suite of e-commerce, technology and business solutions. US Foods is headquartered in Rosemont, IL, and generates more than $28 billion in annual revenue. Visit usfoods.com to learn more. ------------ Rules of Engagement Statement: We are proud to support community engagement on the US Foods LinkedIn page, and we're excited to see your comments, photos and videos. Please note that the views expressed by the community do not necessarily reflect those of US Foods. Before posting, please take a moment to read our rules for community content. We reserve the right to remove content that violates these rules. 1. Don't break the law. Content that appears to break the law or that advocates for breaking the law also is not permitted. 2. Be polite and courteous to everyone, even those you disagree with. This also means you may not post anything that is threatening, harassing, abusive, bullying, discriminatory, profane, sexually explicit, obscene, violent, gruesome, or similarly objectionable. 3. Stay on topic for this community and dialogue. Off-topic content may include but is not limited to irrelevant or out of context material, spam, promotional content, and links to third-party sites. 4. Follow LinkedIn's Terms and Conditions. 5. All posts must be by a real person and from a real profile. Content from fake or anonymous profiles is not permitted. 6. Our employees must also follow all of our applicable policies and guidelines, including but not limited to our Code of Conduct and Electronic Social Networking Policy
