Summer 2027 Intern: AI Enablement & Forward-Deployed Engineering

Live Oak Bank; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 28,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Live Oak Bank invites enrolled students to join a 10-week Summer 2027 Internship at our headquarters in Wilmington, NC. You will embed with lending, deposits, and operations teams to build AI-powered tools and processes that remove friction. You will ship usable tools rapidly and document learnings for scale.

You will train and enable AI champions across business units, while measuring adoption and impact. This is a front-line role blending business context with AI engineering in a regulated

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program.
• Portfolio, GitHub, or set of shipped projects you can walk us through.
• Demonstrated fluency with AI tools as part of how you work.
• Ability to write and speak clearly to non-technical people.
• Comfort with ambiguity and self-direction.
• Experience building with modern web or automation stacks.
• Experience teaching, tutoring, mentoring, or leading a team.
• Exposure to a regulated industry, or curiosity about banking.
• Ability to build and defend a measurement framework.

Responsibilities

• Embed with business teams across lending, deposits, credit, and operations to identify AI-enabled workflows.
• Ship working tools quickly using Claude, Claude Code, Power Automate and low‑code platforms.
• Document what you build so the team can maintain it after you leave.
• Provide hands-on training and scale adoption with AI champions and librarians.

Skills

Portfolio of projects

GitHub profile

AI tools fluency

Written and verbal communication

Education

Undergraduate or graduate student

Job description

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 enthusiasm. Bring back what you find in a summer‑end readout to senior leadership: where AI is creating value at Live Oak, where it is stalling, and what you would do next.

Required

Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program. A portfolio, GitHub, or set of shipped projects you can walk us through. Side businesses, automations, websites, bots, and tools you built. Demonstrated fluency with AI tools as part of how you work — not just as something you have tried. Be ready to show us the last thing you built with one. Ability to write and speak clearly to non‑technical people. Comfort with ambiguity and self‑direction.

Preferred

Experience building with modern web or automation stacks. Experience teaching, tutoring, mentoring, or leading a team — formally or otherwise. Exposure to a regulated industry, or real curiosity about why banks work the way they do. Understanding the constraint is what makes a solution usable. Enough data analysis ability to build a measurement framework and defend the numbers in it.

Our Values

• Dedication: Possess a deep commitment to Live Oak Bank’s mission and core values, exemplified through a strong work ethic, adaptability and pride in your work.
• Ownership: Take initiative to deliver positive results by proactively and creatively solving problems, while maintaining a high degree of quality.
• Respect: Treat everyone with courtesy, politeness, and kindness.
• Innovation: Embrace fresh ideas and fearlessly contribute new solutions to emerging or existing problems.
• Teamwork: Foster collaboration, accountability, and trust with others and understand that together, we do more.

For a detailed overview of our employee benefits please visit: http://www.liveoakbank.com/careers/

Live Oak Bank is an Affir… we consider applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status or disability. Equal access to programs, service and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify human resources at [e-mail]. EEO is the Law The base pay range for this position is $19.77 - $32.12 per hour. Compensation may also include annual bonuses and long‑term incentives, subject to various metrics and company policy. A candidate’s salary is determined by several factors including travel, relevant work experience or skills and expertise. Please note that we provide at least the minimum requirement of paid sick leave to our employees who reside in states that require employer‑paid sick leave, including but not limited to Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. More than just a job, a career at Live Oak is an opportunity to mold the future of the banking industry. Live Oak Bank would not be the top SBA 7(a) and USDA lender in the country without our people. We focus on hiring folks who are dedicated to living our values, every single day. Together, we’re on a mission to be America’s small business bank. At Live Oak we never lose sight of focusing on the wellbeing of our folks. We believe our employees are the heart of our company and drive our commitment to our customers. As part of the Live Oak team, you’ll have the chance to shape the next chapter of banking while supporting the backbone of our nation – small businesses.