AI internships are student and early-career roles where AI is part of the work, from model research to using AI tools in marketing or operations. 7,673 live internship postings sit in the catalogue, 711 of them remote, and 500 build AI, where that is the whole job.
The number this article rests on: 7,673 live postings classified as internships, 4.5% of the catalogue. Measured October 2026.
Seniority is read from each posting's title and text. An internship counts here when the employer calls it one, whatever the field, because the Level rating already says how much AI the role involves. For a first job that is not an internship, the entry level AI jobs guide covers junior roles with its own numbers. To browse the open postings themselves, use the AI internships page and the new grad AI jobs page.
How many AI internships are open right now?
7,673 of the 168,899 live postings are classified as internships, or 4.5%. Seniority is read from the posting, and 23,035 postings in the catalogue carry no readable seniority at all, so some internships sit uncounted in that pool. Measured October 2026.
Internship counts can swing from one month to the next, so a low number in one snapshot is not a signal that the market has closed. The count is rebuilt every six hours, and a weekly check is enough to see new listings soon after they appear.
Which companies offer AI internships?
Thales posts the most AI internships in the catalogue, with 810 of the 7,673 live internship listings. The largest 5 employers together post 2,584 of them, or 33.7%: Thales (810), Amazon (641), Airbus (625), Bombardier (256), and Procter & Gamble (252). Every count here covers live listings only, not closed ones. Measured October 2026.
Together those employers hold a visible share of the set, so their hiring decisions move the whole count. A candidate targeting a specific company is better served by its careers page than by waiting for a general season. Every listing links back to the employer, so the application goes through the company's own process.
What do AI internships pay?
979 of the 7,673 internship postings publish a USD figure. Internship postings that print an hourly USD rate have a median floor of 29 US dollars an hour and a median ceiling of 45 US dollars an hour, across 708 listings. Another 271 print an annual USD range, with a median maximum of $118,700. Measured October 2026.
These numbers describe the employers that choose to print pay, not every internship. Hourly and annual ranges are kept apart and never converted into each other. An hourly rate says nothing about the length of the internship or the hours per week, both of which decide what the placement actually pays.
Are there AI engineer internships?
Yes. 500 internship postings build AI systems outright, and 1,179 sit in software engineering. Those two groups are where AI engineer and machine learning internships appear, and the jobs that build AI show the full-time roles they lead to. Measured October 2026.
The AI engineer jobs guide sets out what those full-time roles ask for, which makes a useful checklist for an internship application in the same field.
What Level are most AI internships?
6,308 internship postings involve little AI, 411 use AI, 454 work on AI, and 500 build AI. Little AI (AI Level 1) means AI is a tool in an otherwise ordinary role, which is the natural entry point for students outside engineering. That group holds 82.2% of internships, against 84.3% across the catalogue. Measured October 2026.
By category, internships sit mainly in software engineering (1,179), operations (495), and data (367). The AI tools named most often are Python, Excel, and C. Outside engineering, the AI automation jobs guide and the data annotation jobs guide cover two other common entry points into AI work.
Do you need experience for an AI internship?
No. Internships are the one seniority tier built for candidates without experience, and the catalogue holds 7,673 of them against 9,908 junior postings, the next step up. What replaces experience is set in each posting's requirements, whether coursework, a project, or a portfolio, so the bar moves from years worked to evidence of skill. Measured October 2026.
Where a posting does not print a seniority, it is counted as unknown rather than guessed, so a role open to beginners can hide in that pool. The answer on getting an AI job with no experience covers the other routes in.
Can you do an AI internship remotely?
711 of the 7,673 internship postings say remote, or 9.3%, against 16.4% across the whole catalogue. That puts internships below the rest of the market on remote work. A remote internship can still require living in a given country for payroll, which the location line may state. Measured October 2026.
Remote status is read from the posting text, so a hybrid internship that never uses the word remote is counted as on-site. Read the location line of each listing before ruling a placement out.
The jobs right now
Live internship postings, newest first, generated from the catalogue rather than written by hand.
