Description
Build AI agents that solve real business challenges
Join New Zealand’s fastest-growing AI company and learn how to build real-world AI agents that businesses actually use. This isn’t research or theory—you’ll get hands-on experience using AI to solve practical problems.
What you’ll do during your internship
You'll support our Marketing and customer teams by helping build AI agents using the Autohive platform. You’ll get exposure to:
Meeting with customers and understanding their business challenges
Testing and improving prompts for large language models (LLMs)
Assisting with workflow automation and connecting tools like Slack and Google Sheets
Shadowing engineers and learning how we build agent logic in Python
Creating internal tools to help our Marketing and Customer Success teams work more efficiently
We're offering a 400-hour full-time internship starting immediately, with potential for permanent placement. The role pays $28.95 NZD per hour and requires full-time office attendance at our central Wellington office (5 days/week).
Requirements
Types of projects you’ll work on
You’ll help build agents that solve everyday problems across a range of teams:
Marketing: Drafting content, summarising data, automating tasks
Sales: Assisting with lead qualification and research
Operations: Organising messy data and streamlining workflows
Customer support: Helping teams respond to common queries faster
Who you’ll work with
Internal teams across marketing, sales, and engineering
Our Customer Success and support staff
Business customers from a variety of industries
What we’re looking for
Interest in large language models (e.g. GPT, Claude) and how they’re used
Curiosity about solving business problems with AI
Some experience with Python (personal projects or coursework is fine)
Strong communication skills—you’re comfortable asking questions and explaining your thinking
Willingness to learn how to turn vague business problems into working solutions
Bonus if you have
Experience using AI tools like ChatGPT or Google Gemini
Worked with APIs or built simple integrations before
Familiarity with tools like Zapier, Make, N8N or Cassidy.ai
Benefits
Why this internship is a great opportunity
Learn by doing – You’ll get hands-on experience with real AI use cases
Mentorship – Work alongside experienced engineers, marketers, and customer success professionals
Make an impact – Your work helps real customers automate and improve their businesses
Explore your interests – You’ll see how AI can be applied across different industries and teams
What this internship isn’t
It’s not focused on academic research or writing papers
It’s not a coding-only role—you’ll spend time understanding customer needs and exploring solutions
It’s not about building perfect solutions—it’s about learning to ship useful ones
Please ensure you meet the following criteria
Have studied or be studying at a New Zealand tertiary education institute (note: students who have completed study overseas are not eligible).
Be studying at NZQA level 6-10, or if study has been completed, the closing date of the last semester must be less than 12 months ago.
Be studying science, technology, engineering, design or business.
Be legally permitted to work in New Zealand.
Not have been previously employed at our business