Data Science Intern

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

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Job description

Job Title
Data Science/Engineering Intern | AI Strategy & Transformation


* Analyze a large-scale dataset (millions of employee review records) to uncover trends in workforce sentiment and topics across roles, industries, and geographies


* Apply NLP techniques including text preprocessing, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling (e.g., LDA, BERTopic) to identify key themes driving employee experience


* Integrate AI/LLM capabilities to summarize topics, generate narrative insights, and support exploratory analysis at scale


* Build machine learning and predictive models to link sentiment and topics to outcomes such as retention risk, engagement, or employer brand strength


* Translate analytical findings into actionable business insights, highlighting implications for talent strategy, leadership, and workforce planning


* Deliver results through clear visualizations and executive-ready summaries, demonstrating measurable business value and impact

Job Summary
We are seeking a motivated Data Science and Engineering Intern to join Korn Ferry's AI Strategy & Transformation team.

This intern will work closely with data scientists, engineers, psychometricians, and product managers to support the design, prototyping, evaluation, and deployment of data-driven solutions that apply statistical methods, machine learning, and generative AI to talent and people-analytics problems.

This is a learning-focused role: you will contribute to real projects, build prototypes and visualizations, and receive regular mentorship from senior team members.

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 as...