MBA Intern: AI-Driven Product Prototyping

Rivian; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Medical insurance

Job summary

Rivian is offering an internship in Palo Alto for MBA or Masters students to help drive AI-assisted product prototyping and streamlined requirements-to-compliance workflows within the PD engineering teams. You will translate engineering pain points into a structured PRD, collaborate with engineers, and present actionable technical specs for productionisation.

Eligible candidates must be enrolled in an accredited university, available full-time (40 hours/week) for the 2027 spring term, and must

Qualifications

• Must be currently pursuing a MBA or Masters degree at an accredited university.
• Technical fluency — can talk Design, Bill Of Materials, and hardware engineering lingo without a translator.
• Hands-on AI-assisted coding experience — has experience building with Claude Code/Cursor/similar.
• Sharp spec-writing & user research skills — can run interviews and write a PRD someone can build from with zero back-and-forth.
• Track record of technical handoff — experience with having engineers build from their written spec.

Responsibilities

• Discover: Interview engineers to uncover real pain points — including needs they can't articulate themselves; translate into a structured requirement schema
• Define: Write the PRDs (interaction model, requirements, success metrics); mock up the concept before anything gets built
• Validate: Test mockups with real engineers on real requirements; revise the spec based on what actually builds trust, not just stated preferences
• Build: Use AI-assisted coding tools to prototype the core plan-approve-execute-cite loop; document what's real vs. simulated
• Hand off: Package the prototype into a technical spec engineering can act on; land a signed-off productionization plan
• Deliver business impact: Translate this module into a clear case for Rivian — faster, more reliable requirements-to-compliance work for PD engineers — backed by evidence, not assumptions, so leadership can confidently fund the next phase

Job description

Rivian is offering an internship in Palo Alto for MBA or Masters students to help drive AI-assisted product prototyping and streamlined requirements-to-compliance workflows within the PD engineering teams. You will translate engineering pain points into a structured PRD, collaborate with engineers, and present actionable technical specs for productionisation.

Eligible candidates must be enrolled in an accredited university, available full-time (40 hours/week) for the 2027 spring term, and must