AI Platform Engineering Intern (Hybrid)

American Family Insurance; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing cost assistance proximity

New Employee Orientation in-person

Job summary

American Family Insurance is offering a Summer 2027 Intern position in Product Data Engineering in Madison, WI. The program runs 10–14 weeks, starting mid to late May and ending in August, with a mentor from the engineering team and a final presentation of your AI project.

You will build a real AI agent within our service‑oriented data and AI platform, gain exposure to various business areas, and have opportunities for networking and coaching.

Qualifications

• Must be a current student at an accredited 4‑year college or university.
• Must be pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD.
• Major/program must align with internship role.
• Demonstratable hands‑on project or internship experience developing AI solutions

Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding of our business, corporate culture and structure to support your work.
• Contribute creative ideas and strategic approaches in response to changing situations.
• Work with your mentor and a partner team to understand a real business problem, and help turn it into a working AI solution by breaking it into small, clear tasks.
• Build and deploy an AI agent on our platform: give it tools, manage its context, and handle the unglamorous parts like retries, timeouts, and unexpected model output.
• Contribute to a shared platform capability, such as evaluation, observability, or internal developer tooling, alongside the engineers who own it.
• Follow team standards for code quality, testing, code review, and security, and write tests for the code you ship.
• Help measure how well an existing AI solution works, for example by turning real failures into test cases, and share what you find with the team.
• Take part in stand‑ups, planning, and code reviews, ask questions early, and keep your mentor up to date on progress and blockers.
• Add logging, metrics, and tracing so others can see what your agent did, what it cost, and whether it is still healthy.
• Document what you built and hand it off so another engineer can pick it up, and present your work to the team at the midpoint and end of the internship.

Skills

AI concepts

Python

Data engineering

Education

Pursuing Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD

Job description

Summer 2027 Intern – Product Data Engineering

An internship with American Family Insurance is a great opportunity to build your skillset and explore your career interests. Our summer student internship is a 10 to 14 week program that starts in mid to late May and ends in August. During your internship, you\'ll work on impactful projects that make a difference at our company, with our customers, and in our communities. You\'ll also gain exposure to different areas of our business and have numerous opportunities for networking and coaching. Interns may be eligible for a one-time hiring bonus to assist with housing costs depending upon proximity to an AmFam office location.

Compensation Minimum: $25.00

Compensation Maximum: $39.00

As a Product Data Engineering intern, you will work alongside experienced engineers on our service-oriented data and AI platform, which supports teams across AmFam, including security and AI. You\'ll build a real AI agent, put it into a real workflow, and then help improve the shared tools that make the next agent easier to build. You\'ll be paired with a mentor engineer for the full internship and finish with working software and a final presentation of what you built.

Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding of our business, corporate culture and structure to support your work.


• Contribute creative ideas and strategic approaches in response to changing situations.


• Work with your mentor and a partner team to understand a real business problem, and help turn it into a working AI solution by breaking it into small, clear tasks.


• Build and deploy an AI agent on our platform: give it tools, manage its context, and handle the unglamorous parts like retries, timeouts, and unexpected model output.


• Contribute to a shared platform capability, such as evaluation, observability, or internal developer tooling, alongside the engineers who own it.


• Follow team standards for code quality, testing, code review, and security, and write tests for the code you ship.


• Help measure how well an existing AI solution works, for example by turning real failures into test cases, and share what you find with the team.


• Take part in stand‑ups, planning, and code reviews, ask questions early, and keep your mentor up to date on progress and blockers.


• Add logging, metrics, and tracing so others can see what your agent did, what it cost, and whether it is still healthy.


• Document what you built and hand it off so another engineer can pick it up, and present your work to the team at the midpoint and end of the internship.

Qualifications

• Must be in student status at an accredited 4‑year college or university during the internship, graduating August 2027 or later.


• Must be pursuing a Bachelors, Masters, or PhD.


• Major/program must align with internship role.


• Demonstratable hands‑on project or internship experience developing AI solutions

Additional Information

To ensure a strong start, all employees participate in our New Employee Orientation during their first week. This experience is held in person at our Madison, WI Headquarters or one of our AmFam core locations to help you connect with our mission, meet key team members and build relationships that support your growth. At times, sessions may be delivered virtually based on scheduling and availability.

Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks

Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions

Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting

Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to consider candidates who may require visa sponsorship.

Work Location

Madison, WI #LI-Hybrid

Benefits

• We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health.


• We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full‑time employees).


• In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid‑family leave are available to support our employees and their families.


• Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and\/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email [e-mail] to request a reasonable accommodation.

Company Overview

American Family Insurance, based in Madison, Wis., has been serving customers since 1927. We inspire, protect and restore dreams through our insurance products, exceptional service from our agency owners and employees, community investments and creative partnerships. American Family Insurance is the nation’s 12th-largest property/casualty insurance company, ranking No. 202 on the Fortune 500 list. American Family has a current ‘a+’ credit rating through AM Best, and has distinction as a “Standing the Test of Time” company, which is represented by having an AM Best financial strength rating of ‘A’ or better for at least 75 years. The company offers American Family-brand products through a network of exclusive agency owners as well as nationwide through key strategic partnerships. American Family Insurance also includes Homesite and Main Street America Insurance. The company has approximately 10,500 employees nationwide.

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