CareerPlan

R&D PhD Summer Intern – Hair Care

MASON BUS AND INNOVATION CTR, USInternship2026-10-26 → 2026-11-10
On-siteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Lead upstream innovation programs to study the impact of soil on shampoo and conditioner performance, designing effective systems to deliver superior benefits.

Role type

PhD summer intern (R&D, hair care formulation)

Builds

Shampoo and conditioner systems

Domain

Consumer packaged goods, hair care, colloid science

Required skills

Colloid science, Surfactant/cationic polymer coacervation, Hands-on experiment work, Data modeling, Peer-reviewed publications

Preferred skills

Surface science, Surface measurements, Machine Learning, Data Science, Generative AI, Large Language Modeling (LLM)

Responsibilities

Investigate product properties in combination with consumer hair properties, Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and interpret data, Develop and propose R&D solutions to enhance product performance, Apply modeling skills to build datasets

Seniority

Intern