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. 233 live internship postings sit in the catalogue, 46 of them remote, and 34 score Level 4, where building AI is the job itself.
The number this article rests on: 233 live postings classified as internships, 0.9% of the catalogue. Measured September 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 score 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.
How many AI internships are open right now?
233 of the 26,799 live postings are classified as internships, or 0.9%. Seniority is read from the posting, and 5,390 postings in the catalogue carry no readable seniority at all, so some internships sit uncounted in that pool. Measured September 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?
Coinbase posts the most AI internships in the catalogue, with 24 of the 233 live internship listings. The largest 5 employers together post 73 of them, or 31.3%: Coinbase (24), Robinhood (23), Aircall (11), Datadog (8), and Snowflake (7). Every count here covers live listings only, not closed ones. Measured September 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?
61 of the 233 internship postings publish a USD figure. Internship postings that print an hourly USD rate have a median floor of 40 US dollars an hour and a median ceiling of 50 US dollars an hour, across 52 listings. Only 9 print an annual USD range, so no annual median is quoted either. Measured September 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. 34 internship postings score Level 4, where building the AI system is the work, and 70 sit in software engineering. Those two groups are where AI engineer and machine learning internships appear, and the Level 4 listings show the full-time roles they lead to. Measured September 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?
173 internship postings score Level 1, 17 Level 2, 9 Level 3, and 34 Level 4. Level 1 means AI is a tool in an otherwise ordinary role, which is the natural entry point for students outside engineering. That band holds 74.2% of internships, against 73.7% across the catalogue. Measured September 2026.
By category, internships sit mainly in software engineering (70), research (18), and sales (16). The AI tools named most often are Claude, PyTorch, and OpenAI. 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 band built for candidates without experience, and the catalogue holds 233 of them against 801 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 September 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?
46 of the 233 internship postings say remote, or 19.7%, against 48.8% 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 September 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.
