Forward Deployed Operations Intern

Fenwick & West•San Francisco, CA

10d•$21 - $25•Hybrid

About The Position

Fenwick is looking for a high-impact technology intern who will design, build, and ship AI-native and agentic workflows to support how one of the country’s leading technology law firms operates and grows. This isn’t a support role. It’s a founding team experience. You’ll work alongside leadership to work with non-technical domain experts to design and engineer workflows that drive business development, intelligence, and legal operations strategy across the firm.

Requirements

Currently enrolled in a CS, data science, industrial engineering, quantitative social science such as economics, or related technical degree program.
Able to work a minimum of 16 hours a week.
Commuting distance and able to come into one of our offices on occasion.
Hands-on experience with programming (Python preferred).
Comfort working with APIs, LLMs, agentic coding tools, MCPs, Jupyter Notebook/VS Code.
Experience translating ideas into working prototypes and measuring whether they actually work.
Demonstrated ability to work with non-technical users.
Demonstrated interest in learning about current and emerging technologies.
Action-oriented and focused on execution.

Nice To Haves

Cloud platform experience (Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or similar) preferred.
AWS experience is translatable to Microsoft/Azure.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and ship AI-native and agentic workflows.
Work alongside leadership to collaborate with non-technical domain experts.
Design and engineer workflows that drive business development, intelligence, and legal operations strategy across the firm.
Translate ideas into working prototypes.
Run experiments, check results, and iterate based on evidence.
Explain technical concepts to non-technical users.
Gather feedback and translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements.