AI Engineer Intern Summer 2027

About Us:
Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago theDVGroup of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016DVTrading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital trading strategies and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. NowDVgroup affiliates include two broker dealers a cryptocurrency market making firm and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Role Overview:
This is a project-focused internship for an AI engineer embedded on the DevOps team. You will report to the DevOps lead and partner with internal technology teams. The work centers on internal production-adjacent toolingnot training or shipping customer-facing ML models.

Core Internship Projects:

• Generative assistant for alert response
  • Learn our observability stack and what data exists today e.g. Prometheus Grafana Loki Tempo Alertmanager OpenTelemetry.
  • Prototype a generative agent that uses approved observability sources to propose structured mitigation suggestions for alerts (hypothesis checks likely causes safe next steps) with traceability back to queries dashboards or signals where possible.
• Retrieval on internal data (RAG)
  • Build and iterate on RAG over permissioned internal data sources (e.g. runbooks tickets docs system design network design postmortems) so suggestions and Q&A are grounded and citeable.
  • Work with teams to improve coverage and quality of that corpus (metadata ownership freshness).
• Path toward agentic remediation (design scoped implementation)
  • Outline how the system could execute approved remediations behind explicit guardrails and human approval.
  • Implement only what is allowed and under reviewno autonomous production changes without platform sign-off.
• Broader internal Q&A
  • Explore how additional internal permissioned firm data can support natural language questions for engineers.
  • Across all phases permissioning auditing logging and cost controls are non-negotiable requirements not stretch goals.

Responsibilities:

• Design and prototype agent workflows with tool use policy boundaries and human-in-the-loop where appropriate.
• Collaborate with platform and service teams to make more observability and operational context available in a safe governed way for agents.
• Document experiments limitations evaluation approach and safety assumptions; ship changes via Git (branches merge requests meaningful commits).

Preferred Skills:

• Linux fundamentals (shell processes logs permissions basic troubleshooting).
• Networking basics: DNS TCP/HTTP/S ports load balancing vs Ingress at a conceptual level.
• Kubernetes fundamentals: debugging pods services ingress Coursework or projects involving Kubernetes Prometheus/Grafana OpenTelemetry CI/CD Terraform/Ansible or cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Compensation Range: $40.00-$50.00 per hour

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