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About IKEA

Ikea designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances, and home accessories, offering a wide range of well-designed, functional products at affordable prices. The company is known for its flat-pack furniture and modernist designs.

Your role

Job content:

• Dive the transformation of IKEA into a more data-driven company by building and operating modern platforms and systems that are aligned with the constantly evolving data and AI landscape
• Build the AI ecosystem at the top retail company
• Play with PB-level data of IKEA eco-systems (Online channels, Retail, customer fulfillment, etc.)
• Work with top talents and get a jumpstart on your career

Training & development

IKEA offers exceptional career and learning possibilities. You will be encouraged to try different roles, change between functions, and even move abroad (if that´s what you want). As a leader, IKEA believes in its people, involves its people, and cares about the people to make them all feel important. Your personal development is important to IKEA too.

Benefits

If you join as a full-time employee after an internship, you will receive some of the benefits which include:

• Tack! co-worker loyalty program
  • Tack! gives all the eligible co-workers an extra contribution to their pension funds. Unit, position, or salary don’t matter – everyone receives the same amount.
• One IKEA - Bonus program
  • The One IKEA Bonus program is a bonus system for all IKEA Group co-workers, based on performance on the values of simplicity and togetherness, with everyone in the same unit working towards the same objectives. Sharing goals helps them to work together as one IKEA.

Career progression

All jobs are equally important to IKEA, regardless of whether you work with the company for a short time, part-time, or for a lifetime. But let’s be honest, people love long-term relationships here at IKEA. Therefore, students often stay after they graduate. Changing paths and developing at IKEA is a common thing. In fact, 88% of the leaders are recruited from within.

Work-life balance

IKEA allows for a work-life balance. IKEA is 100% compatible with people's lives. With their schedules, family circumstances, and holidays. The company is much more than just a job thanks to policies for the team like this.

Culture & vibe

The contribution of every single IKEA co-worker is valued. When the going gets tough, they “kraftsamlar”. That’s the Swedish word for pulling together. IKEA doesn’t care about titles or status. At IKEA, everyone is known by their first name and is encouraged to speak up.

About you

Job requirements:

• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate, network, and build strong relations with team members and stakeholders
• Good knowledge of advanced data structures and distributed computing
• Good Knowledge of AI and machine learning concepts and algorithms
• Broad knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or Scala), including concepts from functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
• Project experience with prompt tuning or fine-tuning experience on mainstream large language models such as ChatGPT(3.5, 4.0) and Meta Llama2.
• Fluent in English
• At least 3 days working in the office per week, and at least 6 months as the internship duration

How to apply

At IKEA, the company has a unique recruitment process to find the right people and for you to find the right job.

• Job application
• Initial Interview
• For some jobs, you might be asked to do a test
• Additional interview with the potential manager
• Offer

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page.

• ikea.com/es/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/you-matter-to-us-pub6134b190
• ikea.com/be/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/students-and-graduates-kick-start-your-career-at-ikea-pub03257c90
• ikea.cn/cn/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/benefits-pub8c6da021
• ikea.cn/cn/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/many-ways-to-grow-pubb2c269a1