WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
This internship is part of Nike’s Advanced Product Intelligence team, a group within the Advanced Innovation Collective, that focuses on building intelligent capabilities for designers, engineers, and creators to reimagine the future of physical product design. During your internship, you’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teammates across Machine Learning Engineering, Computational Engineering, Generative AI Design, and Data Analysis.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
In the role of an Innovation AI & Machine Learning Engineer Intern, you will build intelligent models & workflows that assist and accelerate the product innovation process. You will lead or collaborate on efforts such as:
Prototyping AI/ML tools that support creative workflows for footwear and apparel design
Fine-tuning image diffusion, vision-language, and generative 3D models geared towards product design exploration
Training lightweight, domain-specific predictive ML models from generated or curated datasets
Building interactive prototypes or internal tools that make intelligent capabilities readily available for use by Design and Engineering teammates
Over the course of the internship, you’ll work alongside a passionate and multidisciplinary team that’s shaping the future of product innovation at Nike. You’ll present your project to stakeholders at the end of the internship and contribute to documentation that helps scale your work beyond the summer. And finally, you’ll walk away with meaningful, real-world experience at the intersection of AI & Machine Learning, furthering breakthrough products that make athletes* better.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a graduate-level engineering intern with a strong foundation in machine learning and artificial intelligence who is eager to apply those skills to real-world challenges in product innovation.
This internship will be project-based, with room for tailoring based on your interests and strengths. Our ideal candidate brings not only technical capability, but also a self-directed, builder mindset and a curiosity for solving ambiguous and novel problems. You love digging into real-world datasets, training models, testing outputs—and improving them. You’re as excited by open-ended creative problems as you are by well-defined engineering challenges.
Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Computational Engineering, or a related technical field with a graduation date between Winter 2026 and Summer 2027
Strong foundational understanding of core machine learning concepts (e.g., supervised & unsupervised learning, neural network architectures, model training and evaluation, tradeoffs in model selection, overfitting and underfitting behavior)
Experience working with and applying diffusion models, computer vision models, transformers, and/or 3D geometry data
Hands-on experience with fine-tuning Generative AI image diffusion models and integrating them into creative workflows
Hands-on experience building AI/ML-powered systems or prototypes (either academic, personal, or professional)
Proficiency in Python and commonly used ML libraries (e.g., PyTorch, OpenCV, NumPy, pandas, TensorFlow, scikit-learn)
Comfort navigating ambiguous problem spaces and proposing your own ideas or approaches
Demonstrated ability to communicate technical findings to diverse audiences in verbal and written form
This internship – as well as full-time positions – are located in-person at the NIKE, Inc. World Headquarters in Beaverton, OR. Check out this video of our World Headquarters to learn more about life on campus: Nike WHQ Campus Video
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
Nike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nike and has not been reviewed or approved by Nike.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
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What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., we innovate to serve athletes*. Every teammate - from coder to creator - plays a role in making these athletes’ dreams real. Our tech, data, and digital teams push limits every day, building the future of sport and the tools that drive it. Here, curiosity is fuel. Innovation is the game plan. Different perspectives keep us on the offense. You’ll solve challenges worth tackling, grow fast and belong to a team that backs you to do the right thing. Bring your drive. Bring your bold. Let’s move the world, together. Take your first step at nike.com/careers * If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
Why Work With Us
At NIKE, Inc., your dedication fuels the future of sport. There is a sense of pride that comes from representing an iconic brand and shaping its future. Here, we treat every day as a new opportunity to push boundaries, ask tough questions and share whole-hearted convictions. We are a team – united by the belief that anything is possible.
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