Software Development Intern, Production Scoring Services

Job Description:

Software Development Intern, Production Scoring Services
Requisition ID: 24768
Country: United States of America
Location type: Hybrid (3 days / week in office)
State / Province: Chicago
City: Illinois
Application Deadline: 15 March 2026

About Us

Korn Ferry is a global consulting firm that powers performance. We unlock the potential in your people and unleash transformation across your business - synchronizing strategy, operations, and talent to accelerate performance, fuel growth, and inspire a legacy of change. That's why the world's most forward-thinking companies across every major industry turn to us - for a shared commitment to lasting impact and the bold ambition to Be More Than.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, our over 9,000 colleagues globally serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core capabilities that span the full talent lifecycle:
* Organizational Strategy
* Assessment and Succession
* Talent Acquisition
* Leadership Development
* Rewards and Benefits

Job Description
OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR CAREER - It's about exceeding your potential.
This position sits within the Korn Ferry Institute (KFI), an innovation center for Korn Ferry focused on illuminating key trends and drivers of human and organizational performance. KFI develops robust scientific research, cutting-edge intellectual property, and state-of-the-art analytics that are infused into Korn Ferry solutions. We provide unparalleled insights, thought leadership, research, data, and expertise. Our work enables individuals, teams, and organizations to make better-informed decisions to thrive in the new economy and to exceed their potential on their journey to greatness.

KFI is a highly agile, matrixed organization with dozens of projects active at any one time, many of which are strategic and high priority. The KFI includes professionals from diverse disciplines including industrial/organizational, quantitative, and educational psychology; sociology; neuroscience; and data science. As such, this role may require collaboration across research, thought leadership, data, analytics, IP, and measurement areas, and projects may involve multiple cross-functional stakeholders.

Our new 10-week global internship program is part of Korn Ferry Launch, which is an early-career development program created to give interns and recent graduates a head start in their professional life. It's an invaluable learning experience that could be the fast track to a rewarding long-term career at Korn Ferry.

As an intern you'll be given plenty of opportunity to make an impact here. In fact, you'll be welcomed as a valued member of the team, and you'll be working on real projects, alongside senior Korn Ferry Institute team members. Your assignments might include things like market mapping, analyzing data or even attending research homeroom meetings - professional experiences that will look great on your resume.

We'll offer you plenty of support and guidance while you're here, as well as practical training and development. This internship will help you learn the business and people skills you need to succeed in the workplace and give you the chance to start building your professional network.
Your time at Korn Ferry will help you discover where your professional strengths and interests lie and might help you decide on a future career path. Many of our interns go on to join our New Grad Program after graduation, and we hope they will stay with us as their careers continue to develop.

The Korn Ferry Global Internship Program is open to rising juniors and seniors from any academic major, as well as candidates earning post graduate degrees.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Korn Ferry Institute Intellectual Property (IP) team develops, updates, and innovates work design and measurement, assessment, and development solutions at the individual, team, and organization levels.

The KFI IP team is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Intern with a technical background and strong programming skills to join our team. In this role, you will work with our team's data scientists and software developers to support ongoing software development and updates to our scoring systems for measuring the competencies and behaviors required for effective performance in professional and leadership roles. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects, collaborate with experienced developers, and gain hands-on experience working with production-grade software projects.

Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with data science and scoring engineers to support the development, QA, and maintenance of select scoring services, with a primary focus on multi-rater survey tools.
* Document scoring algorithms and data flows. Share results and approaches with data scientists and other internal stakeholders.
* Review and improve the scalability of shared codebases and packages used across multiple scoring services. Leverage comprehensive documentation and end-to-end testing to ensure the accuracy and reliability of scoring service results.

Qualifications:
* Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Quantitative Psychology, Software Engineering, or a related programming-intensive field.
* Proficiency with at least two programming languages (e.g. Python, Java), along with general programming principles, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming. While our primary codebase is in R, we value a candidate's ability to think logically, write clean code, and adapt to new languages over specific syntax knowledge.
* Familiarity with version control: Basic experience with Git and GitHub (e.g., committing, merging, branching) to ensure seamless collaboration within our development workflow.
* Familiarity with the basics of software testing (e.g., unit, system, regression testing), and some experience writing software tests.
* Professional Growth Mindset: A genuine interest in learning the nuances of professional production software development, including continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), more advanced version control (e.g., PR process, recovering from mistakes, integration with CI/CD), issue tracking, working with containers, as well as writing clean, maintainable code and participating in peer code reviews.

Why Join Korn Ferry?
This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to Korn Ferry's industry-leading intellectual property while building skills in research, data analysis, and competency modeling. You'll work alongside experts, gain insights into leadership development and assessment practices, and make a real impact on innovative solutions shaping organizational success.

Estimated hourly rate
20.00 USD - 25.00
Salary range represents the compensation Korn Ferry expects to pay to a candidate with the requirements for the job posted. Korn Ferry offers competitive compensation and benefits commensurate with experience.

Korn Ferry may use AI as part of its recruitment process, but all hiring decisions are made by humans.

Korn Ferry Benefits
The Korn Ferry Cares Wellbeing Platform offers Employees health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment), Critical Illness, Accident Injury, Hospital Indemnity, and Legal Insurance. Employees are eligible to enroll in Korn Ferry's Tax Deferred Savings plan 401(k). Employee Stock Purchase Program is available to all permanent employees who work 20 hours or more after 6 months of service.
Employees are eligible to receive a total of 15 days vacation annually plus paid time off for 16 company holidays. Full time eligible employees will accrue sick time commencing on the first date of employment at the rate of 3.33 hours per pay period for an annualized maximum of 80 hours.

Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry
If you currently work for Korn Ferry or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Korn Ferry to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with your HR contact for the new position concerning application eligibility, including any immigration/visa needs, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.

Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Background Check Disclaimer
The successful candidate will need to complete background checks as part of our recruitment process, this may include criminal, education credentials, employment history, and other background information relevant to your employment qualifications