2025 Intern - Machine Learning Engineer

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

 

Position: 2025 Intern - Machine Learning Engineer
Req ID: Pending
Business Unit: Sensei & Search
Location: San Jose

Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands— everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours.

The Opportunity
Adobe is looking for a Machine Learning intern who will apply AI and machine learning techniques to big-data problems to help Adobe better understand, lead and optimize the experience of its customers. By using generative models, experimental design methods, and optimization techniques, the candidate will be working on the research and development of exciting projects like real-time online media optimization, sales operation analytics, customer churn scoring and management, customer understanding, product recommendation and customer lifetime value prediction.

All 2025 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

• Develop and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) to solve complex natural language understanding and generation tasks.

• Implement scalable, efficient, and interpretable LLM-based algorithms that handle massive datasets in production systems.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management and engineering, to create new features and improve LLM performance.

• Leverage techniques like transfer learning, prompt engineering, and reinforcement learning to continually enhance LLM models.

• Analyze performance metrics to optimize model accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.

What You Need to Succeed

• Currently enrolled full time and pursuing a Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence; or a related field, with an expected graduation date of December 2025 – June 2026

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, with experience in libraries and frameworks like PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, Hugging Face Transformers, and vLLM

• Strong understanding of natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), generative models and machine learning concepts.

• Expertise in advanced LLM tools and frameworks such as PyTorch Lightning, vLLM, or other LLM optimization libraries.

• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving ability.

• Excellent communication, relationship skills and a team player

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

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $45.00 -- $55.00 hourly. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay rate for your job location during the hiring process.

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

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