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Engineering - Internship

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Why Engineering?
Engineering drives the innovation and solutions that power our growth and success, connecting ideas to real-world impact and delivering value at scale. Our Engineers create cutting-edge solutions that make a real difference for millions of customers. Whether it's enhancing mobile apps, leveraging AI and emerging agentic technologies for personalised experiences, or simplifying core systems, our engineers are shaping the future of banking.
We’re not just building tech, we’re building better customer journeys, smarter systems, and a more secure digital future.
Your Internship Journey
Our Engineering internship is structured differently to all other internships and is designed to give you a real appreciation of what it means to work for us as an Engineer. The programme emphasises agile ways of working and immerses you in a dynamic and collaborative environment in which you’ll get to work in Scrums on real business projects supported by engineering experts.
At the end of the internship, we’ll assess you on what you’ve learned. Complete this successfully and you could be offered a place on our Engineering graduate programme, where you can carry forward the skills you’ve learnt into the next stage of your career.
Over the course of this eight-week programme, you can look forward to:
- Actively participating and contributing to real engineering projects
- Attending daily stand ups in your scrum project teams to drive real business progress as well as participation in end of sprint demos, retros, and feedback sessions
- Developing your engineering skills and application through agile methodologies, AI-assisted engineering practices and NatWest ways of working
- The opportunity to attend regular business and engineering spotlight so you can understand how our engineers contribute to the broader business and our customers
- Learning about how we operate, and how the contribution of Engineering makes a difference across our business technology functions including Retail, Wealth, Commercial & Institutional and Customer & Operations
- Learning how engineers collaborate with AI tools and emerging agentic technologies to solve complex problems while applying human judgement and critical thinking
- Building an understanding of the products and services we provide for our customers and colleagues
- Attending Engineering specific networking events, social engagements and the opportunity to hear from senior leaders across the bank
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I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
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StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
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How You’ll Benefit
We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £36,400 pro rata.
Plus, you can expect to:
- Learn from industry experts and immediately apply your learnings
- Enrich your learning with access to our Learning Academy
- Test and learn new approaches in a safe, inclusive environment
- Start building a professional network
- Grow your confidence, build your resilience, and elevate your presence
- Experience first-hand what it’s like working in a purpose-driven organisation


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Entry Requirements
To be eligible for our Engineering internship, you’ll need:
- To be in your penultimate year of university
- To be on course to achieving a 2:1 in a STEM subject
- Clear communication skills, and the ability to break down complex problems and explain your ideas
- A curious, logical mindset with a passion for solving problems and exploring emerging technologies, including AI
- Confidence working with data, statistics, and experimentation, and evidence-based decision making
- A flexible attitude, comfortable with change and ambiguity and continuous learning in a rapidly evolving technology landscape
- A drive to learn, grow, and make a real impact
Ready to Apply?
The application window for this programme will be open until we receive enough applications to fill our cohort. When that happens, we’ll close the programme to new applications. It’s important to take the time to make sure you’re making the right decision about the programme you want to apply for (you can only apply for one programme) but please complete your application as soon as you can to make sure you don’t miss out!
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Hours
35
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