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San Jose, CA

2026 Intern - Generative AI Software Engineer

Internship
Media & Comms
Software engineering
Posted:
December 31, 2025

Adobe

Creative software and digital media solutions
78.8
Palpable Score
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The Opportunity

Our fast-paced Adobe Firefly Foundry team operates at the forefront of Adobe’s Generative AI strategy, with high autonomy, high impact, and high visibility with executives. We create cutting-edge Generative AI products and platform services. Join us as we invent new ways for millions of people to express themselves and transform their businesses with Generative AI.

All 2026 Adobe interns will be co-located hybrid. This means that interns will work between their assigned office and home. Interns will be based in the office where their manager and/or team are located, where they will get the most support to ensure collaboration and the best employee experience. Managers and their organization will determine the frequency they need to go into the office to meet priorities.

What You’ll Do

What you do during this internship will depend on your interests and strengths.

Expect your activities to include some of the following:

· Rapidly spin up prototypes that explore the commercial viability of capabilities invented by Adobe research teams.

· Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.

· Design and develop intuitive, responsive, and performant frontend applications.

· Improve prototypes and products by empathetically listening to feedback from customers and colleagues.

· Evaluate cutting-edge GenAI models.

What You Need to Succeed

· Currently enrolled full time and pursuing a Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience required with an expected graduation date of December 2026 – June 2027

· Strong technical background with analytical and problem-solving skills

· Previous related experience in software engineering (applicable coursework, projects, internships, etc.)

· Proficiency and experience with JavaScript or Python

· Understanding of how large language models and diffusion models are trained and operate, including trade-offs made during training and inference.

· Familiar with the software development lifecycle - designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining web and mobile apps

· Results-oriented, with ability and interest in learning new technologies and adapting quickly to new requirements and environments

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills; can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations.

· Ability to participate in a full-time internship between May-September

About the company

Adobe

Company overview
Adobe is a software company best known for Creative Cloud products like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, plus Document Cloud (Acrobat) and Experience Cloud for marketing, analytics, and commerce. Adobe sells subscriptions to individuals, teams, enterprises, and public-sector organisations. Adobe has also built and marketed generative AI features such as Adobe Firefly across creative workflows. Adobe is headquartered in San Jose, California and operates globally.

Locations and presence

Adobe’s corporate headquarters is in San Jose, and Adobe lists a large network of offices across the US and other countries. For student roles, many 2026 internship postings state a “co-located hybrid” approach, splitting time between an assigned office and home based on team expectations.

Palpable Score

78.8
/ 100
Adobe offers multiple clear entry routes, from internships across functions to university graduate roles, and Adobe backs that up with visible intern programming and a structured hiring-process outline. Pay range visibility is better than many large tech employers, and Adobe Digital Academy publishes unusually specific retention and promotion outcomes. The biggest gap is that Adobe does not publish consistent, company-wide outcomes for internships and new-grad hiring, such as conversion rates and typical time-to-promotion.
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