Top Internships in Chicago, IL

Paid 10-week Python software engineering internship on a DevOps team. Responsibilities include developing Python scripts, optimizing tooling, supporting CI/CD, collaborating with senior technologists, deploying solutions, and exploring AI-driven automation for log analysis, anomaly detection, and alerting in a trading infrastructure environment.

Provides part-time, on-site IT and desktop support for employees in a trading environment. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hardware, software, Microsoft Office, phones, printers, and enterprise AI tools; configuring workstations and applications; managing user accounts; and maintaining IT inventory. The intern will receive mentorship while applying classroom knowledge and learning help desk, hardware, networking, and AI-assisted troubleshooting skills.

Supports change releases, deployments, troubleshooting, monitoring, log analysis, and issue escalation for trading systems. Develops scripts to automate tasks and uses generative AI and LLMs to improve troubleshooting, log analysis, anomaly detection, and proactive monitoring. This 10-week paid internship includes mentorship, training, and project work supporting a systems reliability engineering team.

Ten-week paid software engineering internship developing, testing, and deploying C++ solutions for a proprietary trading platform. Interns work with large datasets, network programming, multithreaded applications, AI coding tools, and cross-functional technologists and researchers. The role includes mentorship, complex problem-solving, collaboration, and opportunities for full-time employment after graduation.

Build data pipelines and relational data models using Python and SQL; clean operational data, support scenario analysis, and create dashboards for PMO leadership. Explore LLMs and machine learning for text analysis and data-quality automation. Gain production experience with testing, documentation, maintainable code, and data-driven decision support in a trading environment.

Finance/accounting interns support FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, account reconciliations, tax, sourcing, internal audit, controllership, and shared-service process improvement. Responsibilities include analyzing financial data, preparing business cases, supporting acquisitions and capital investments, and researching accounting standards. Interns work on a 10–12 week project while networking and developing professional skills in a hybrid Northbrook or Chicago office environment.

Supports renewable energy advisory and independent engineering projects for wind, solar, and battery energy storage systems. Responsibilities include resource assessment, energy production modeling, technical due diligence, data analysis, financial model input validation, project document review, technical writing, research, QA/QC, and potential site inspection support. Interns may also develop analytical tools, automate repetitive processes, and assist with construction monitoring and renewable energy project financing assessments.

Supports strategic third-party delivery partnerships through delivery and marketplace data analysis, operational performance monitoring, reporting, and business reviews. Identifies trends, recurring issues, and improvement opportunities; documents findings and develops recommendations. Collaborates with internal stakeholders and external delivery providers, participates in meetings, and presents analytical insights. The internship also includes mentorship, leadership development, networking, and project-based learning.

Supports Cyber Defense activities including reviewing workflows for automation opportunities, assisting with security monitoring and analysis, and helping integrate security tools. The intern will gain exposure to cyber defense operations, incident response, and security technology while contributing to process improvement and technical reporting. This is a 12-week seasonal summer internship in a hybrid Chicago work environment.

Supports retail media product management by managing users, submitting feature requests, creating knowledge base materials, auditing competitor documentation, and recommending platform improvements. Collaborates with internal technology teams and external vendors, contributes to roadmaps and integrations, and communicates product information to technical and business audiences. The internship includes project work, mentorship, leadership exposure, and professional development.

Supports the Enterprise Project Management Office through project phase-gate compliance reviews, work request queue maintenance, project tool updates, schedule and change-request support, and analysis of EPMO control data. The intern reviews dashboards, assigns tickets, analyzes metrics such as time in status and escalations, and assists with ad hoc activities. This is a 12-week hybrid summer internship for enrolled undergraduate or graduate students.

Supports OCC’s Legal department through ad hoc projects, legal research, analysis, writing, and presentation development. The intern may work on regulatory, commercial, litigation, and corporate governance matters while assisting attorneys with legal processes and advice for OCC stakeholders. This is a 12-week seasonal summer internship for currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate students, specifically law students who have completed one or two years of law school.

Supports quantitative risk management through development, testing, monitoring, and improvement of financial risk models used for margin, clearing fund sizing, and stress testing. Projects may include evaluating model assumptions, creating sensitivity metrics, researching advanced methodologies for equity price and volatility modeling, and improving Python code libraries. The intern collaborates with quantitative researchers, model validation teams, technology staff, and business stakeholders.

Supports quantitative risk management through model specification, impact analysis, P&L decomposition, backtesting exceedance attribution, performance monitoring, annual validation, and parameter review. The intern works with quantitative analysts on model development, monitoring, and research involving derivatives, stochastic calculus, statistics, econometrics, machine learning, and financial risk models.

Supports quantitative risk model performance monitoring through portfolio backtesting, metric implementation, documentation, analytics, and automation. Develops Python and Pandas scripts, writes SQL queries, assists with data analysis and visualization, participates in code reviews, and supports monitoring enhancements for new products and regulatory governance activities.

Supports internal audit and validation engagements through audit planning, fieldwork, control testing, process walkthrough documentation, findings documentation, and reporting. The intern reviews business-provided support, participates in meetings, and coordinates with engagement leads and supervisors. Assignments may cover cybersecurity and information technology audit areas.

Supports HRIS and people analytics projects, including Workday report standardization, data dictionary development, employee lifecycle mapping, HR metrics documentation, Hub optimization, report consolidation, and employee data administration. Collaborates with HR stakeholders while managing multiple projects and identifying process and data improvements.

Seasonal intern supporting Model Risk Management by analyzing risk themes with statistical, econometric, and machine-learning methods; automating discrepancy and root-cause reporting; reviewing model remediation; and evaluating option implied-volatility modeling. The role requires financial mathematics knowledge, programming in R or Python, data analysis, and familiarity with derivatives pricing, stochastic calculus, statistics, probability, and linear algebra.

Supports internal audit and validation engagements involving financial risk management and model risk management. Responsibilities include audit planning, fieldwork, control testing, process walkthrough documentation, assessing control design and operating effectiveness, documenting findings, reviewing business support, attending meetings, and coordinating with engagement leads and supervisors.

Year-round data platform intern supporting cloud-based data processing and data access services. Responsibilities include writing SQL, troubleshooting, documenting requirements, participating in Agile sprint reviews, collaborating with business and technical teams, and using technologies such as Python, Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS. The intern will also learn DevOps, monitoring, distributed systems, and AI-assisted development practices in a regulated financial-services environment.

Supports investor education marketing through social media content creation and scheduling, paid social campaigns, email campaign development, marketing automation, subscriber management, website updates, budget tracking, and campaign reporting. The intern collaborates with marketing, compliance, and subject-matter teams while gaining exposure to financial markets, options, and clearing processes.

Supports AWS cloud security guardrails, IAM controls, Open Policy Agent policies, governance automation, and FinOps tooling. Responsibilities include building monitoring and remediation tools, developing cost anomaly detection and cleanup automation, creating financial operations dashboards, and contributing to policy-as-code and tagging or chargeback solutions. The intern works on real platform engineering backlog items while developing cloud security and cost management expertise.

Seasonal intern supporting enterprise technology quality assurance by analyzing requirements, creating and executing manual and automated test cases, maintaining regression suites, reporting software defects, and participating in Scrum ceremonies. The role focuses on application quality, testing-process compliance, and automation using programming languages and AI tools.

Supports OCC’s Enterprise Technology Solutions Knowledge Continuity initiative by assessing knowledge risks, identifying subject matter experts and single points of failure, drafting and organizing knowledge assets, validating documentation readability, tracking action items and metrics, maintaining meeting records, and participating in Jira-managed Agile sprints. The intern collaborates with the Knowledge Management team in a compliance-driven environment focused on documentation accuracy, governance, findability, and knowledge transfer.

Supports Kubernetes clusters, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP. Assists with Terraform-based automation, monitoring, security best practices, troubleshooting networking and storage issues, high-availability requirements, documentation, and operational procedures. Collaborates with engineering, platform, development, operations, and security teams while developing hands-on infrastructure and cloud skills in a production environment.