About the role#
The SAP.com Digital Platforms Team is looking for a Site Speed Performance Intern to help ensure fast experiences across desktop, mobile, and automated crawler environments. You will work as a technical liaison between SAP IT Development and global marketing stakeholders. This role focuses on data analysis and performance optimization rather than hands-on production development. You will help advance AI-assisted workflows by using large language models and Model Context Protocol integrations to improve testing, diagnostics, and reporting.
What you'll do#
- Conduct synthetic and real-user performance testing using Catchpoint and Akamai mPulse.
- Analyze Core Web Vitals and performance trends using Chrome UX Report and Grafana dashboards.
- Investigate front-end and rendering bottlenecks using Chrome DevTools.
- Monitor bot traffic, rendering usage, and crawler performance for SAP.com and SAP.cn.
- Analyze crawler errors, CDN routing, and robots.txt directives to reduce 404 responses.
- Use SAP-approved generative AI and MCP-enabled tools for test-script generation and diagnostic analysis.
- Review AI-generated findings and validate them against technical performance data.
- Collaborate with product owners, developers, and UX teams.
- Maintain performance documentation and internal knowledge resources.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in or recent graduation from a coding academy, bootcamp, apprenticeship, associate, bachelor’s, master’s, or JD/PhD program.
- Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive design, and modern website rendering.
- Familiarity with or interest in learning browser developer tools like Chrome DevTools.
- Awareness of web performance concepts including Core Web Vitals, accessibility, and asset optimization.
- Curiosity about AI-assisted workflows, automated crawlers, and search technologies.
- Interest in learning AI systems such as large language models, retrieval systems, vector databases, and agentic orchestration.
- Familiarity with Figma for reviewing prototypes and design specs.
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Firefly.
- Familiarity with Adobe Experience Cloud technologies.
- Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for managing work and documentation.
- Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
- Ability to translate business needs into clear, actionable technical requirements.
Location & details#
- Location: Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
- Work Modality: Hybrid.
- Employment Type: Full-time (40 hours per week).
- Duration: 6 to 12 months.
- Compensation: Paid internship.
About SAP
SAP provides enterprise software for finance, procurement, human resources, and supply chain management. Founded in 1972, the company is based in Walldorf, Germany. It employs over 147,000 people and operates as a public company. The business focuses on cloud transformation and artificial intelligence tools for organizational operations.
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