Summer 2025 - Food Services Intern

Nice to meet you!  

We’re the leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence – and questions into answers.    

We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you’re looking for a dynamic, fulfilling internship coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you’ll find it here.   

What you’ll do 

Looking for *that* internship? The game-changing one that’ll help you learn, grow, and chart your path forward? You’ll find it at SAS. Our interns aren’t coffee runners – they do real, meaningful work. Our award-winning internship program is focused on development, culture, and community. We’ll help you grow professionally, find (or further) your passion, and make memorable connections that last beyond the summer.  

The mission of the SAS Food Service Department is to support SAS and its employees by offering safe, high-quality food and service, while providing great hospitality. We are responsible for providing lunch in two on-campus cafes, maintaining break rooms, and providing business catering needs throughout SAS campus. 

As an intern, you might: 

• Assist in the preparation of food for the on-campus cafes. This may include hot entrees, soups, sandwiches, pizza, baked goods, and salad bar items 
• Assist in the preparation of food for catering functions 
• Serve food in a customer-facing environment in the cafes or in catering functions 
• Assist in maintaining and restocking break rooms 

Required Qualifications 

• You’re curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do. 
• Have strong communication skills – both written and verbal. 
• Be a leader. You’re the one sitting in the front row of the class. 
• Embrace technology. You geek out over the latest and greatest! 
• You’re a student enrolled in an accredited program, not graduating prior to December 2023. 
• Targeted majors: Culinary Arts, Nutrition, Dietetics, Hospitality, Food Service Management or related field 
• Follows all health and safety regulations in the preparation and storage of food and in cleanup of all areas of the café. 
• Ability to perform basic food preparation skills, basic knife skills, cooking at correct temperature, and presenting finished dish in an attractive manner. 
• Ability to work in hot kitchen or with hot water; ability to stand at worktable or serving line up to seven hours per day. 
• Ability to lift and move heavy objects up to 50 pounds.  

Preferred Qualifications 

• Ability to operate quantity food service equipment such as mixer, dish machine, oven, slicer, food processor and cooking principles. 
• Any experience working in Campus cafeteria, Catering, or a Kitchen? We'd love to hear about it! 
• You've got customer service experience 
• ServSafe Certified. 

Location  

This internship will be in person at SAS HQ in Cary, NC 

Internship dates:

May 20 – August 8, 2025. We can be flexible on start date if your university is on a quarter system.  Internships last 12 weeks in total length.  

Perks of the job 

• Work with (and learn from) the best. As a SAS intern, you’ll get face time with our top executives! 
• Free SAS programming training and certification.   
• We work hard, but we like to play hard, too. Enjoy hackathons, social events and other opportunities to connect + engage.  
• Your well-being matters, and that’s why we support all dimensions of your well-being by offering programs that reduce stress and distractions to help you stay healthy and productive.  This includes an on-site and remote Work/Life Center staffed by master’s level social workers and an Employee Assistance Program.

Diverse and inclusive    

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.    

Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.

SAS only sends emails from verified “sas.com” email addresses and never asks for sensitive, personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, or on behalf of SAS, please contact Recruitingsupport@sas.com.

Pay Transparency: The hourly rate for SAS internships is determined by the applicant’s year in school and the position they are hired into. Hourly rates range from $15 – $31 for associate’s/bachelor’s level positions and $29 - $49/hour for master’s/Ph.D positions. Internship roles are not eligible for bonus.This position is a Services Internship with a target pay rate of $15/hr.

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