AI Consulting Associate Program; AI CAP) Engineering Intern - Summer Office Office - NYC

Office
- Chicago;
Office - NYC

Drive Wealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.

Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. Drive Wealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

We are seeking an AI Engineering intern who will work on real AI agentic automation problems, designing, prototyping, and developing AI-powered agents to help the business and engineers achieve faster, smarter work. You will collaborate directly with senior engineers and architects, receiving mentorship and design reviews, and gaining exposure to modern GenAI patterns, including agent orchestration, tool-calling, retrieval, and evaluation, within an enterprise and fast-paced fintech environment.
AI tools change every quarter. Your project will use the best models, agent frameworks, and protocols available in summer 2027. You will work on current practice, not today's stack.
Launch your career developing real, impactful AI solutions in the lightning-fast world of fintech!
Program Details
Our summer program will be 10-12 weeks from May - August 2027 with the expectation of being in the office 3-4 days per week, as determined by the sponsor. Compensation will be set at an hourly rate of $35-40 per hour. Top performing associates may have the opportunity to be considered for full-time roles at Drive Wealth at the conclusion of the program, based on performance and team needs.

Must have a graduation date in 2027 or 2028
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• Design, prototype, and develop agentic AI workflows that automate or augment business or engineering tasks (for example, analysis, triage, documentation, and knowledge synthesis)
• Build internal tools or proof-of-concept systems that combine LLMs, APIs, and automation frameworks into end-to-end agentic solutions
• Experiment with different agent architectures (single-agent vs. multi-agent, planner/executor patterns, human-in-the-loop workflows) and document tradeoffs
• Apply best practices when building AI-driven automation
• Evaluate agent behavior for reliability, correctness, and failure modes, and propose improvements
• Clearly document designs, experiments, and lessons learned so work can be reused or extended by the team
• Demo your work directly to customers and the leadership team

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience programming in Python (for automation, prototyping, and scripting) and SQL
• Familiarity with APIs, JSON, and basic service integration
• Foundatio…