Summer Intern: AI Enablement & Forward-Deployed Engineering

## Summer 2027 Intern: AI Enablement & Forward-Deployed Engineering Apply:
Wilmington, NC:
Part time:
Posted Yesterday:
End Date:
September 24, 2026 (6 days left to apply):
R-002624
** About Us
** Live Oak Bank is a digital bank that serves small business owners across the country.  Our groundbreaking spin on service and technology has fueled our mission to be America’s Small Business Bank. Our products help customers buy, build, and expand their business, and our high-yield savings and CD products help them grow their hard-earned money.  At Live Oak, we never lose sight of the well-being of our people.

We believe our employees are the heart of our company.

Our commitment to our customers and culture is intertwined, and we seek those who embody and embrace what it takes to empower the American dream.
** Ready to make an impact?
** We're looking for an intern to join our team for the onsite 10-week Summer 2027 Internship Program (May 17 - July 23, 2027) at our headquarters in Wilmington, NC. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, September 23.
** How This Role Impacts Live Oak and Its People
** Live Oak is putting AI in the hands of every employee, not just engineers. That creates a gap most banks never staff: someone who can sit with a lending team for two days, understand what actually slows them down, and leave behind a working solution — then turn around and teach forty people how to build the next one themselves.

This internship is that gap. You will spend the summer embedded with real teams across the bank, building AI solutions alongside them and making the people around you more capable than they were before you arrived. You will ship things employees use, and you will strengthen the AI champions and skills librarians who carry this work forward after you leave.

We hire interns who build. Ex: a successful 2026 intern was a business major who had founded a company, shipped production websites for paying clients, and used AI as core infrastructure rather than a novelty.
** What You'll Do at Live Oak
**** Forward-Deployed Engineering — roughly half your time**
* ** 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.
** Enablement & Training — roughly a third of your time**
* ** 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.
** Support & Measurement — the remainder**
* ** 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…