Early Careers Internship Program Risk (AI)

Location: Zürich / Gotthardstrasse 35, Switzerland. The internship is onsite and applicants must hold a valid work permit for the location.

Paid internship with a standardized salary for early-career interns; free lunch included.

Company

hirify.global is a family-owned and publicly listed investment firm headquartered in Zurich, with over 2,000 professionals across 29 locations globally.

What you will do

• Support the enhancement and alignment of enterprise, operational, and resilience risk frameworks, including risk appetite, taxonomy, governance, and interactions between risk types.
• Work across the Three Lines of Defense with Risk, Compliance, Technology, Finance, business units, and other control functions.
• Analyze operational incidents, emerging risks, regulatory developments, risk culture, resilience scenarios, risk concentrations, and control weaknesses.
• Prepare risk reports, dashboards, committee materials, and presentations for senior management and governance bodies.
• Improve connections between risk appetite, incidents, issues, controls, risk assessments, and resilience while identifying opportunities for better data, automation, and workflows.
• Explore responsible AI use in risk identification, analysis, control assessment, and management reporting, with appropriate governance and human oversight.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program, or graduated within the last two years, in finance, technology, or a related field.
• Genuine interest in the financial sector.
• Fluent written and spoken English required.
• Valid work permit for Switzerland required.
• Curiosity, ownership, tenacity, self-dependence, foresight, proactive initiative, and analytical thinking.
• Ability to collaborate, build networks, engage colleagues beyond the immediate team, and share findings.

Nice to have

• German, French, or Italian.
• AI literacy, including using AI tools for research, analysis, and drafting while checking their output.

Culture & Benefits

• Six-month internship starting on 1 March 2027.
• Modern collaboration spaces and a free onsite canteen with freshly prepared lunches.
• Supportive, inclusive, diverse, and collaborative open-office environment.
• Access to current technology and resources, flat hierarchy, and an agile, future-focused workplace.
• Networking through the NextGen community and intern lunches.
• Paid internship with standardized early-career intern compensation.

Hiring process

• The application period runs from 5 to 15 November 2026, with applications reviewed on a rolling basis and positions potentially closing early.
• Applicants may submit a maximum of two applications across all internship positions.