Product Engineer Intern

Swik AI; North Carolina; On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

Swik AI is an early-stage AI company building intelligence infrastructure for commercial finance. We’re looking for a Product Engineer Intern to work closely with the founding team to understand real customer problems, figure out how to solve them, and build products that get used in production.

This is a broad, hands-on role for someone who likes moving between product thinking and engineering rather than simply executing predefined tickets.

Qualifications

• Strong technical builder who enjoys building technology and solving open-ended problems.
• Curious about the problem behind what you're building, not just the implementation.
• High-agency, resourceful, and willing to learn quickly.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer and product problems and help determine how to solve them.
• Build and ship features that will be used in production.
• Prototype new ideas quickly and turn promising ones into reliable product experiences.
• Work across product, engineering, AI, data, and integrations as needed.
• Occasionally join customer conversations to understand workflows and translate them into product.
• Help shape what we build and how we build it as the product evolves.

Skills

Strong technical builder

Curious about the problem

High-agency

Willing to learn quickly

Job description

Swik AI is an early-stage AI company building intelligence infrastructure for commercial finance.

We’re looking for a Product Engineer Intern to work closely with the founding team to understand real customer problems, figure out how to solve them, and build products that get used in production.

This is a broad, hands-on role for someone who likes moving between product thinking and engineering rather than simply executing predefined tickets.

What You’ll Work On

• Understand customer and product problems and help determine how to solve them
• Build and ship features that will be used in production
• Prototype new ideas quickly and turn promising ones into reliable product experiences
• Work across product, engineering, AI, data, and integrations as needed
• Occasionally join customer conversations to understand workflows and translate them into product
• Help shape what we build and how we build it as the product evolves

Who We’re Looking For

This could be a strong fit for a student or recent graduate from UNC, Duke, NC State, or another university in the Triangle who enjoys building technology and solving open-ended problems.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• A strong technical builder, even if you’re still developing depth in a particular area
• Curious about the problem behind what you're building, not just the implementation
• Comfortable figuring things out when the path isn’t clearly defined
• High-agency, resourceful, and willing to learn quickly
• Interested in startups, AI, product development, and building software that people actually use

You do not need to know every technology we use. We care much more about how you think, what you’ve built, and how quickly you can learn.

Why Join Swik

You’ll work directly with the founders on real customer problems and ship code into a live product.

You’ll get exposure to the full process of building an early-stage technology company — understanding a problem, talking with users, designing an approach, building it, putting it in customers’ hands, and learning from what happens next.

This is an in-person opportunity in the Research Triangle area .