Summer 2026 · Paid AI Internship
Do You Speak AI?
High school juniors and seniors already experimenting with agents, prompts, and AI workflows - we want you on a real Agentic AI team this summer. Paid. Real projects. Real mentorship.
- Paid $15–$25/hr
- Summer 2026
- Real production AI work
- $200M+ Under management with our algorithms today
- 1987 Building trading software since
- 4 Trading platforms shipped
- Paid $15–$25/hour internship
The opportunity
A summer that actually counts.
Paid. Mentored. Hands on real Agentic AI work. With a path to keep going after the summer ends.
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Paid Position
$15–$25/hour based on your prior AI experience. Compensation is reviewed as you grow.
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Real Projects
Build agentic workflows that hunt for repeatable edges in live market data. Not busywork.
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AI Mentors on Call
Working pros support every sprint. You'll never be thrown into the pool without a life jacket.
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Career Runway
Continued employment is on the table for the right candidates - through college or full-time.
A summer job like no other
Real data. Real stakes. Real AI.
You'll work on the same problems our pros are tackling.
No filing, no fetching coffee, no make-work. From day one you'll be inside the same sprints, the same tooling, and the same datasets we use to build our trading platforms.
- Hands-on with production-grade AI tooling
- Daily collaboration with working professionals
- Self-directed projects available for those ready
Discover edges in live markets.
Each day starts with a Market Brief. The team proposes hypotheses, you build the agentic workflows that test them, and the results inform what ships into our trading systems next.
- Stocks, futures, forex, and crypto
- Daily review and rapid iteration
- AI professionals available for guidance
What you'll work on
Six skills you'll build by August.
Every project sharpens at least one of these. Most sharpen several at once.
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Agentic AI Workflows
Design multi-step agent pipelines that plan, gather, reason, and act on financial data.
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Market Data Research
Pull, clean, and analyze datasets from equities, futures, forex, and crypto.
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Workflow Automation
Wire AI tools and APIs together to run unattended on real production schedules.
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Edge Discovery
Use AI to find repeatable patterns the markets reward - and pressure-test what holds up.
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Data Pipelines
Build the plumbing that feeds research and live trading models reliably.
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Options & Trading Concepts
Learn how leverage, derivatives, and automation interact at scale.
Day in the life
How a Nirvana intern day actually flows.
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Market Brief
Team reviews the edge-finding projects in flight.
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Propose
You suggest agent workflows to tackle the day's problem.
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Build & Test
Wire up agents, run them, iterate, instrument.
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Validate
Measure results against real, point-in-time data.
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Present
Share what you found with the team and decide what ships.
Right fit?
You'll thrive here if you…
- Curious, creative, and self-motivated
- A fast learner - comfortable picking up new tools
- Willing to experiment, fail, and iterate
- Have built or seriously tried at least one AI project
- Can clearly explain something you've made or attempted
- Interested in code, data, automation, or markets
Prior professional experience is not required. Real curiosity and at least one hands-on AI project are.
Tools you might already know
Tell us what you've actually used.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Claude Code
- Claude Desktop
- OpenAI Codex
- GitHub Copilot
- Cursor
- Replit
- Windsurf
- Make
- Zapier
- n8n
- Flowise
- LangChain
- AutoGen
- CrewAI
- Perplexity
- Midjourney
- DALL·E
- Runway
- ElevenLabs
- Canva AI
Don't worry - nobody knows all of these. We just want to see how you've experimented.
About Nirvana Systems
Trading automation since 1987. Now applying AI at scale.
Nirvana Systems was founded in 1987 to serve the trading-automation space. We've shipped four trading and investing platforms used by individuals, advisors, and institutions to automate their strategies.
In much the same way Renaissance Technologies conquered the quant world with data science, we're applying AI automation to find the next generation of market edges. Today our algorithms manage $200M+ - and our goal is to become the investment platform of choice for everyday Americans.
This summer's interns will help us push that mission forward.
Apply
Apply for the Summer 2026 AI Internship
Fill this out as completely as you can - the more we know about what you've built, the better. Expect about 10 minutes.
Your information is used only to evaluate your application. Applicants under 18 may include a parent/guardian email so we can loop them in. Submissions are reviewed within 1–2 weeks.