2025 Summer Intern, Tech Incubation

The Emerging Technologies Group is uniquely positioned to be at the heart of Samsung Research America's innovation engine aimed towards:

• Advancing Samsung's product offerings across smartphones, wearables, TVs, XR/AR devices.
• Identifying the next big growth drivers for Samsung.

The group's mission is to:

• Discover and incubate high-potential innovative technologies that lay the foundation for future Samsung products and services.

To achieve this mission, the group:

• Collaborates closely with external entities such as universities, startups, VCs, and government labs.
• Works in tandem with Samsung's product and advanced research labs.

SRA's academic and startup programs enable research breakthroughs on cutting-edge technologies by fostering collaborations between academia and industry. The Emerging Technologies Group is at the core of these programs.

Position Summary

You are passionate about evangelizing and realizing a technology vision for products that are beyond the horizon. In this role, you will:

• Research new emerging technologies.
• Develop business cases.
• Drive pivotal academic and startup collaboration initiatives in new research areas.

You will work closely with cross-functional SRA teams, university professors and researchers, startup co-founders, and SRA researchers to identify and mature nascent technologies. You are a highly motivated self-starter who will:

• Define problem statements.
• Create roadmaps.
• Build irrefutable evidence for technology viability.
• Define milestones and success metrics.
• Drive projects with aggressive schedules to completion.

Position Responsibilities

• Identify and research emerging technologies and evaluate the associated product and business opportunities that enable Samsung to deliver new and exciting value to consumers.
• Be a significant contributor to SRA's academic and startup collaboration programs, including driving program deliverables across technical analysis, early-stage technology research and PoC development, and risk mitigation.
• Partner with SRA teams on internal innovation programs and support project ideation and scoping.
• Support efforts to track project milestones and impact, and present and demonstrate the research outputs to executive leaders.

Required Skills

• Pursuing a Master's degree or Ph.D. in a Technology field (e.g., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, etc.) or Business/Management.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technology field, such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, etc. (past technology work experience preferred).
• Exposure to several technologies, including but not limited to: Mobile, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robotics, Health/Medical Tech, Computer Vision, Advanced Materials, etc.

Preferred Skills

• Positive attitude and energy, imagination, resilience, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to adapt to the audience and situation.
• Strong analytical skills to build deliberate, objective recommendations and respond to challenges and objections.
• Structured thinking to navigate ambiguous technological, organizational, and scheduling situations.
• Resilience to overcome hurdles and address failures with alternative paths.
• Ability to rally the team to believe in the technology vision and execute on tight deadlines.

Compensation

• Hourly pay rate range: $44 - $63 USD.

Our total rewards programs are designed to motivate and engage exceptional talent. The hourly pay rate range for roles at this level may be higher or lower in other states due to geographic differentials in the labor market. Within the hourly pay rate range, individual rates depend on a number of factors—including the role's function and location as well as the individual's knowledge, skills, experience, education, and training.

This is part of our comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.