Student Employment & Internships

John Deere contributes to essential human flourishing with solutions that feed, clothe, fuel, shelter, and connect the world. We run so life can leap forward. Electrification enables new ways to get work done for our customers. We’ve been actively growing our electrification capabilities for over a decade. We’re expanding our global team to include students at the John Deere Technology Innovation Center in University of Illinois Research Park. For more about Deere’s electrification capabilities, please follow this link: https://www.deere.com/en/engines-and-drivetrain/vehicle-electrification/. This role will live at the intersection of electrification and data science. In this position, you will focus on using data to improve the performance of our electric components. This role involves working with data across a range of platforms, getting the data to work together, characterizing performance of the systems, and finding anomalies. As a part of our part-time program, you’ll be expected to work 15-to-20 hours per week during the school year, and 40 hours per week during the summer. The work will take place primarily  at our facility in Research Park in Champaign, Illinois. Our team considers diversity a competitive advantage. John Deere is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. If this sounds a role you would enjoy, please contact Marty Bush (BushMartinK@JohnDeere.com).

John Deere contributes to essential human flourishing with solutions that feed, clothe, fuel, shelter, and connect the world. We run so life can leap forward. Electrification enables new ways to get work done for our customers. We’ve been actively growing our electrification capabilities for over a decade. We’re expanding our global team to include students at the John Deere Technology Innovation Center in University of Illinois Research Park. For more about Deere’s electrification capabilities, please follow this link: https://www.deere.com/en/engines-and-drivetrain/vehicle-electrification/. In this position, you will focus on system design, modeling, documentation, and testing. It’s a chance to get hands-on experience with rugged electric drives and hybrid electric applications. We are a supplier not just to our own machine forms, but a wide range of OEMs as well. A strong understanding of electrification is critical to this role, but experience in software development, data analysis, and report-writing will help you stand out. As a part of our part-time program, you’ll be expected to work 15-to-20 hours per week during the school year, and 40 hours per week during the summer. The work will take place primarily  at our facility in Research Park in Champaign, Illinois. Our team considers diversity a competitive advantage. John Deere is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. If this sounds a role you would enjoy, please contact Marty Bush (BushMartinK@JohnDeere.com).

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. Early Career at Cargill YOU MUST CURRENTLY BE ENROLLED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (UIUC) FOR THIS INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY WITH CARGILL AT THE UIUC RESEARCH PARK In partnership with Cargill, through the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) research park, you will be given the opportunity as an intern to work with Cargill Digital Labs, to gain hands on experience in real business situations and be exposed to many of Cargill’s businesses and functions during the work term. As an intern you would work as an individual contributor or in project teams where software engineering, analytical skills, product design, UX Design, leadership, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation are keys to success. As an organization Cargill’s mission is to lead in nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. The Cargill Digital Labs (CDL) team is to help prepare Cargill for a digital future. The vision of this future includes a thriving digital culture, continually launching of new digital business initiatives, and that Cargill will be a digital thought leader in the food and agriculture industries. In May 2019, Cargill established a research site within UIUC’s Research Park to further this mission. In its first iteration, we leverage the site to host digital research projects, such as software, hardware and engineering prototypes that are staffed by student interns from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. As we gain learnings from the experience, we will grow and mature our development capabilities within the park to best suit Cargill’s evolving digital journey. Having the Right Mindset We look for students that enjoy startup culture and are adept at working collaboratively within a team. Comfort with ambiguity is a must. Empathy for other functions is critical. Lean mindset to build the smallest thing possible is a key to success. We don’t expect you to be an expert on all things digital, but we do look for students that are hungry to learn new things. Expand your skills in a high growth ag tech industry just a few blocks off campus. Job Location University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, IL. Required Qualifications Must be currently enrolled as a student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign graduating between Winter 2022 and Summer 2025. Must have the right to work in the US that is not based on the possession of a student visa or a visa sponsored by a third-party employer. Currently pursuing a Bachelors’ degree with a major or minor in UX Design, Product Design, Design, Graphic Design, or other related disciplines, OR commensurate experience with design and analytics in lieu of pursuing a related major/minor. Experience with creating flows, wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, and conducting usability testing using tools provided. Experience with Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Axure, Balsalmiq, Adobe Creative Suite OR comparable software. Able to complete a semester-long internship in Spring 2022 (late January – April 2022) that is 20 hours/week. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Must possess a high degree of initiative and resourcefulness in completing work with limited guidance. Preferred Qualifications Ability to demonstrate a strong aptitude for both technology and business. Competency in Figma, as that is our preferred design software. Experience working with software engineers. Familiarity with Material Design. Overall 3.0 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale is preferred. Demonstrated analytical and technical skills. Ability to relate technical knowledge to job-related duties. Strong prioritization and problem-solving skills; collaboration skills; verbal and written communication skills; and information research and gathering skills.   Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.   Click here to apply!

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights, and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. Internship Summary: YOU MUST CURRENTLY BE ENROLLED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (UIUC) FOR THIS INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY WITH CARGILL AT THE UIUC RESEARCH PARK Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.  In partnership with Cargill, at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) research park, you will be given the opportunity as a graduate level intern to apply knowledge gained in the classroom to a real-life environment and then multiply by tenfold. As a Data Science Intern, you will work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams to develop proof of concepts, minimum viable products and fully deployable solutions. In this role, you will create complex predictive and optimization models that help deliver significant value to our businesses and functions. The focus of this role will be on manufacturing and operations problems. This is a part-time Internship for UIUC students to take place either in the Fall 2021 semester or Spring 2022 Semester. Key Accountabilities: Continuously seek out best practices and develop skills Work on multidisciplinary teams of data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, and business subject-matter experts to deliver complex projects on time and within budgets Work with mentor to translate ambiguous and complex business problems into project charters clearly identifying technical risks and project scope Take ownership for the data science workflow including exploratory data analysis, model development, and potentially deployment Independently handle issues with minimal supervision, while working closely with mentor for more complex issues Other duties as assigned Job Location: This position is located at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, IL. Required Qualifications: Must be currently enrolled in a Master’s or PhD program at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or related fields with a graduation date of December 2021 or later Able to complete a semester-long, part-time internship in the Fall of 2021 (August/Sept 2021 – December 2021) or Spring of 2022 (January – May 2022) Experience developing and testing machine learning or statistical projects Strong background in Computer Vision including image/video processing, object detection, classification and tracking. Knowledge and experience on using deep learning tools (e.g. TensorFlow, MXNet, PyTorch, etc.) for image/video analytics Proficiency in Python (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, bokeh, matplotlib, NumPy) Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Interested in learning model deployment in a production setting Preferred Qualifications: Right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship. Strong SQL skills Strong data visualization skills Experience in agriculture Experience in a software development environment and code management or versioning Experience working with AWS Experience working with Hadoop and other distributed computing frameworks Experience working with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines   Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.   Click here to apply!

John Deere contributes to essential human flourishing with solutions that feed, clothe, fuel, shelter, and connect the world. We run so life can leap forward. – Our team at the John Deere Technology Innovation Center in University Illinois Research Park is an advanced R&D team of engineers and scientists working in Emerging Technology. We are great at analyzing numbers, but sometimes we need help analyzing words. We are looking for naturally curious colleagues who are eager to learn new things in our part-time student program. We are looking for students who can follow lines of research and contextualize the data and information that they discover. This is a position for critical thinking, not simply fact-finding. It is likely more well-suited for a humanities major than a STEM major. Areas of research and analysis are likely to include sustainability, emerging technologies, competitive assessments, supplier identification, intellectual property, and others. You will maintain a backlog of research projects and report out to multiple team members on your research and analysis findings. As a part of our part-time program, you’ll be expected to work 15-to-20 hours per week during the school year, and 40 hours per week during the summer. The work will take place primarily  at our facility in Research Park in Champaign, Illinois. Our team considers diversity a competitive advantage. John Deere is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.   If this sounds a role you would enjoy, please contact Mark Moran (MoranMarkD@JohnDeere.com).

John Deere contributes to essential human flourishing with solutions that feed, clothe, fuel, shelter, and connect the world. We run so life can leap forward. John Deere’s equipment keeps getting smarter by sensing more and more about the world around it. The Advanced Sensing Team at the John Deere Technology Innovation Center in University of Illinois Research Park is central to those efforts for Deere. We work with sensors across the EMF spectrum to improve how our equipment interprets the world. To that end, we are looking for students to join us in that process of discovery – exploring how different physical and chemical phenomena become visible at different points on the EMF spectrum, and how to leverage that to generate agronomic (or other) insights. While some programming and data analysis is a part of this role, it’s really about working with the hardware, and it’s ideally suited to majors like engineering physics, and to people that like to do hands-on work. As a part of our part-time program, you’ll be expected to work 15-to-20 hours per week during the school year, and 40 hours per week during the summer. The work will take place primarily at our facility in Research Park in Champaign, Illinois. Our team considers diversity a competitive advantage. John Deere is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. If working with a range of sensor types in our garage and our test field, understanding how they perceive their environment, and using those insights to create new sensing solutions is interesting to you, please contact Nate Ogden (OgdenNathan@JohnDeere.com).

John Deere contributes to essential human flourishing with solutions that feed, clothe, fuel, shelter, and connect the world. We run so life can leap forward. Sustainability is critical to Deere and to our customers. Part of the global team that drives our sustainability programs is based at the John Deere Technology Innovation Center in University of Illinois Research Park. Agriculture is a complex, multi-disciplinary field. We are working to improve our understanding of those natural and human-made processes so that we can model and simulate them in order to make agriculture practices more sustainable, for the betterment of our customers, and the world. Modeling agricultural processes requires a team of skills. Across that team, there must be skills in process engineering, programming, data science and agriculture. If you have expertise and interest in on or more of those areas, this may be a good role for you. Successful candidates are most likely studying an agriculture-related field or a STEM major. As a part of our part-time program, you’ll be expected to work 15-to-20 hours per week during the school year, and 40 hours per week during the summer. The work will take place primarily  at our facility in Research Park in Champaign, Illinois. Our team considers diversity a competitive advantage. John Deere is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.   If you are interested in learning more, please contact Kevin Wright (WrightKevin@JohnDeere.com).

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights, and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. Early Career at Cargill YOU MUST CURRENTLY BE ENROLLED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (UIUC) FOR THIS INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY WITH CARGILL AT THE UIUC RESEARCH PARK In partnership with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Research Park, you will be given the opportunity as an intern to work with Cargill Digital Labs through our local office, The Cargill Innovation Lab at UIUC, to gain hands on experience in real business situations and be exposed to many of Cargill’s businesses and functions during the work term. As an intern, you would work in a project team where software engineering, analytical skills, product design, UX / UI design, leadership, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation are keys to success. As an organization, Cargill’s mission is to lead in nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Cargill Digital Labs (CDL) strives to help prepare Cargill for a digital future. The vision of this future includes a thriving digital culture, continually launching of new digital business initiatives, and that Cargill will be a digital thought leader in the food and agriculture industries. In May 2019, Cargill established a research site within UIUC’s Research Park to further this mission. In its first iteration, we leverage the site to host digital research projects, such as software, hardware and engineering prototypes that are  staffed by student interns from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. As we gain learnings from the experience, we will grow and mature our development capabilities within the park to best suit Cargill’s evolving digital journey. Why Intern with us? Professional Experience – Gain professional experience as a software engineer working in a cross-functional team. Learn best practices from industry professionals. Understand what it is like to work within an agile software product team. Build Prototypes – Work on fast-paced, digital prototype projects. Ship a functioning prototype over the course of weeks. Collaborate with clients to test prototypes and gain real-world insights. Cross-Functional – Gain exposure speaking with and presenting to a variety of stakeholders across business, engineering, design and product functions. Work in tandem with a UX UI designer on understanding the user’s journey, wireframes and user interface designs. Startup Culture – Wonder what it would be like to work within a product team at a software company? Or how about getting a software MVP off the ground? Your project for the semester will include building a prototype from scratch or exploring future features of an existing app. You’re paired with other software engineers and UX UI designers to go from requirements gathering, planning, design, architecture, dev, quality assurance to testing with real users over the course of a semester. Use Cases That Matter – Work on real innovation initiatives that serve a variety of clients at Cargill ranging from animal nutrition, animal supply chain, food industry, learning and development, to trading and analytics. Apply your talents on digital initiatives that transform global food systems. Having the Right Mindset While engineering fundamentals are a must, we look for students that enjoy startup culture and are adept at working collaboratively within a team. Comfort with ambiguity is a must. Empathy for other functions and the end user is critical. Lean mindset to build the smallest thing possible is a key to success. We don’t expect you to be an expert on the entire stack, but we do look for students that are hungry to learn new things. Expand your skills in a high growth ag tech industry just a few blocks off campus. Job Locations University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, IL. Qualifications Required Qualifications Must be currently enrolled as a student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign graduating between May 2022 and Summer 2024. Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree with a major or minor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other technology related discipline OR commensurate experience with software engineering in lieu of pursuing a related major/minor. Must have the right to work in the US that is not based solely on the possession of a student visa or a visa sponsored by a third-party employer. Able to complete at minimum a semester-long internship during theSpring 2022 semester (January – April 2022), that is 20 hours/week. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Must possess a high degree of initiative and resourcefulness in completing work with limited guidance. Willing to take ownership of project and work. Preferred Qualifications: Pursuing a cross-disciplined degree in either Economics, Business, Food Science, or Agriculture Business. Overall 3.0 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale is preferred. Commercial product software development experience; experience with agile development methodologies. Strong prioritization and problem-solving skills; collaboration skills; verbal and written communication skills; and information research and gathering skills. Knowledge of full-stack or mobile development, database design, and basic software engineering principles. Interested in returning to the Lab across additional semesters beyond Summer 2023.   Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.   Click here to apply!