Year-Round Intern - AI Research & Engineering

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is a financial market infrastructure organization providing clearing and settlement services for equity derivatives and other transactions. The Year-Round Intern will help the Artificial Intelligence Research & Engineering team design, prototype, integrate, test, and evaluate agentic AI solutions while supporting governance, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Agent design & prototyping — Build and iterate on AI agent workflows for a specific OCC functional area, working alongside engineers who own these systems in production
• Platform integration — Integrate agentic solutions with internal data sources and APIs, gaining experience with the same MCP/tool-use patterns our engineers use to connect models to enterprise systems
• Evaluation & testing — Design test cases and evaluation frameworks to measure agent accuracy, reliability, and safety, which is a core ongoing responsibility for AI engineers ensuring solutions are production-ready
• Governance & risk awareness — Partner with the AI Governance & Risk Management functions to understand compliance and risk considerations for deploying AI in a regulated financial environment, a responsibility every AI engineer on the team shares
• Documentation & knowledge sharing — Document agent architectures, prompt designs, and lessons learned, contributing to the team's internal playbooks, mirroring how full-time engineers formalize and scale successful pilots
• Cross-functional collaboration — Work directly with business stakeholders in the target functional area to gather requirements and validate that the agentic solution solves a real operational problem, the same stakeholder-facing skill required in the full-time role