AI Engineer and Implementation Specialist

Please only apply if you are interested in a summer seasonal position working in a kid-centric environment and are willing to relocate to Northern Wisconsin from May 26 - August 7.

Compensation for this position:

• Competitive summer salary. 
• Food and Lodging
• Relocation Expenses

This is a unique engineering role. For nine weeks, you’ll be the sole technical builder embedded in a 300-person operation with real users, real stakes, and real constraints, shipping AI tools that get used the same day you build them. If you want a summer where every line of code you write touches a human within hours, where you control the full stack from problem identification to deployment to user training, and where the feedback loop is measured in meals rather than sprints, this is the role for you.

Who We Are
North Star Camp is a residential boys summer camp on Spider Lake in Hayward, Wisconsin. Each summer, roughly 300 campers and 100 staff live and work together in a community that runs on an enormous amount of hidden coordination work — schedules, communications, observations, logistics. Today, that work is done by hand, on spreadsheets, in inboxes, and in the heads of our leadership team. We think modern AI tooling can absorb a meaningful share of it, and we’re hiring an engineer to prove it.

The Role In A Nutshell
You’ll embed with our leadership team as our sole AI engineer for the summer, with a direct line to the Camp Director and broad authority to identify problems, design solutions, ship them, and train the staff who’ll use them. The mandate is straightforward: take administrative load off camper-facing staff so they can spend more time with kids. Your first major project will be rebuilding how we handle camper activity scheduling and daily staff assignments — currently a multi-hour weekly grind that runs on proprietary software the leadership team has outgrown. From there, you’ll work down a backlog you help define. The role runs May 26 through August 7 in Hayward, Wisconsin, with the option to extend through late August. Internship credit is available.

Why This Role Is Worth Your Summer

• Full ownership of a real problem. No PM, no design review committee, no quarterly planning. You see a friction point at breakfast, ship the fix by dinner, and watch staff use it on Tuesday.
• Sole engineer in a fast-moving operation. You’ll be the entire technical team. Every architectural choice, every tradeoff, every “should we build this or buy this” call is yours to make and defend.
• Users you can talk to over lunch. Your customers eat in the same Lodge you do. Feedback loops measured in hours, not sprints.
• A novel applied AI domain. Most LLM application work happens in offices on knowledge work. This is LLM-assisted operations for a residential community with children, families, dietary restrictions, medical needs, weather contingencies, and 300 campers who need to be in the right place at the right time. The constraints are unusual and the work is genuinely interesting.
• A portfolio with shipped users. Nine weeks, a clear set of production tools running in a real organization, and a director who will sing your praises to whoever you want him to.

A Typical Day (even though there’s no such thing as a typical day at camp…)

• Breakfast in the Lodge with the leadership team. The Program Director mentions she’s spending an hour each morning compiling staff schedule changes. Mental note: candidate for automation.
• Head to your workspace and finish a tool you started yesterday that helps counselors turn rough observation notes into structured camper updates parents will actually want to read.
• Sit with the office team during their morning huddle to watch how parent emails get triaged. Sketch a prototype of an LLM-assisted draft generator before lunch.
• Eat lunch with a couple of cabin counselors. Ask them what part of their week they wish they could hand off. Listen. Observe. Start to plan how you can assist them.
• Spend the afternoon shipping the parent email tool, with guardrails so nothing goes out without a human in the loop.
• Run a 20-minute training session in the Lodge for the office team on how to use what you built.
• Catch the tail end of Evening Program at the campfire. The whole point of your job is making more of those moments possible.
• After lights out, monitor how the day’s tools performed, fix what broke, and write down what to build next.

What You’ll Likely Build

Your first priority is addressing the scheduling problem: the weekly camper activity schedule built from ranked choices, and the daily staff assignment puzzle that has to balance time off, wilderness trip rotations, and program quality. It’s the meat and potatoes of our daily camp program. Traditionally, it has been done by a proprietary software (camper schedules) and by hand (staff assignments). We want to automate that while not losing the high level of choice and customization that is needed to run a high quality camp program.

From there, candidate projects include:

• AI-assisted drafting tools for parent communications
• Synthesis tools that turn cabin observation notes into useful camper updates
• Internal helpers that surface relevant context (camper history, allergies, family notes) at the right moments
• Workflow automations for the office team’s repetitive tasks
• Drafting support for social media posts and Siren content (daily newsletter for parents)
• Anything else you and the leadership team identify as worth the build

This Job Might Be For You If:

• You like to think of yourself as Bob The Builder with an AI mindset. You’d rather have a working prototype in hand by end of day than a beautiful design doc by end of week. You know when something is good enough to put in front of a user, and you iterate from there.
• You’re a strong listener and observer. The most valuable automations come from watching how people actually work, not from what they tell you they need. You’re comfortable shadowing staff, asking obvious questions, and noticing the steps people don’t think to mention.
• You take AI safety and judgment seriously. This work involves children, families, and sensitive information. You understand that human review isn’t a bureaucratic obstacle but a feature, and you build tools that keep the right people in the loop.
• You can work without a roadmap. No one will hand you a backlog. You’ll find the problems worth solving, prioritize them, and explain your choices to non-technical leadership.
• You communicate well across the technical-nontechnical divide. You’ll be the only engineer in the room. That means translating constraints, managing expectations, and making non-technical colleagues feel competent rather than confused.
• You’re comfortable trading polish for speed. This isn’t a venue for elegant architecture as a goal in itself. The bar is “does it work, is it safe, will staff actually use it?” Rebuild later if it earns its keep.
• You can live communally for nine weeks. Camp is a residential environment. You’ll eat, sleep, and work alongside the rest of the staff, including the people who use your tools. That’s a feature for this role, but it’s not for everyone.

Qualifications Needed For The Role

• Proficiency in vibe coding. Experience with Claude Code and Base44 strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience integrating APIs across services to move data between systems and trigger workflows.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs (prompt design, basic evals, agentic workflows).
• Comfort owning a project end-to-end from problem definition to deployment to user training.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Perks Of The Job

• A competitive salary
• Room and board (3 meals a day and snacks at night) for the entire summer
• Travel expense reimbursement
• Direct access to camp leadership and full ownership of your work
• A portfolio of shipped projects with real users in nine weeks
• A beautiful camp surrounded by a stunning waterfront
• All the s’mores you can imagine

Essential Functions Needed For This Role

• Ability to lift 50 pounds
• Ability to be on your feet for extended periods of time
• Additional tasks and duties as assigned

Interested in Applying? 

We’d love to hear from you! Learn more on our website and submit an application.