Summer 2027 Intern: AI Enablement & Forward-Deployed Engineering

Live Oak Bank is a digital bank serving small business owners across the country. The intern will work with teams across the bank to build and deploy AI solutions, translate business needs into technical tools, document workflows, train employees, support AI adoption, and measure business impact.

What you'll do:

• Embed with business teams across lending, deposits, credit, and operations to find the workflows where AI removes real friction — then build the solution with them, not for them
• Ship working tools fast using Claude, Claude Code, Power Automate, and low-code platforms. Prototype in days, not quarters. Expect what you build to be in real use before your first month ends
• Translate between worlds by turning a lender's challenge into a scoped problem statement, and turning a technical constraint into language a business leader can act on
• Document what you build so the team maintains it after you leave. A solution that dies when the intern leaves was never a solution
• Support our AI champions and skills librarians by enhancing the training materials, reusable skills, and internal documentation they need to scale adoption inside their own business units
• Run hands-on training for employees at every level — from people who have never opened an AI tool to power users who want to build their own agents
• Create artifacts that outlast the session including prompt libraries, reusable skills, quick-reference guides, and short video walkthroughs
• Field questions and unblock employees on our enterprise AI tools. Every recurring question is a signal about missing training or missing tooling; you will spot the pattern and close the gap
• Measure whether any of this is working by defining and tracking adoption, usage, and time-saved metrics so leadership can tell genuine impact apart from enthusiasm
• Bring back what you find in a summer-end readout to senior leadership: where AI is creating value at Live Oak, where it is stalling, and what you would do next

What they're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program
• A portfolio, GitHub, or set of shipped projects you can walk us through. Side businesses, automations, websites, bots, and tools you built
• Demonstrated fluency with AI tools as part of how you work — not just as something you have tried. Be ready to show us the last thing you built with one
• Ability to write and speak clearly to non-technical people
• Comfort with ambiguity and self-direction
• Experience building with modern web or automation stacks
• Experience teaching, tutoring, mentoring, or leading a team — formally or otherwise
• Exposure to a regulated industry, or real curiosity about why banks work the way they do. Understanding the constraint is what makes a solution usable
• Enough data analysis ability to build a measurement framework and defend the numbers in it

Benefits:

• Annual bonuses and long-term incentives, subject to various metrics and company policy.
• At least the minimum requirement of paid sick leave for employees who reside in states that require employer-paid sick leave, including but not limited to Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.