Software Engineer Intern

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business‑critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e‑signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer Intern (AI), you will work closely with our engineering team in France at Issy‑Les‑Moulineaux. Your primary focus will be supporting the AI Tooling Optimization project. You will assist in research, development, testing, and documentation related to implementing AI‑driven improvements to our tooling. This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands‑on experience with cutting‑edge AI applications in software engineering and contribute to a real‑world project with significant impact. You will collaborate with experienced engineers and learn about the software development lifecycle in a dynamic Agile environment.

This position is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Director, Engineering. This is an internship role for 4 months of duration.

Responsibility

• Assist in researching AI techniques and their application to software development tooling
• Use AI‑powered developer tools (such as code copilots and internal LLM‑based assistants) to implement features and improvements in Identify services and UIs, always taking ownership of the final result.
• Apply AI tools to accelerate tasks like test generation, refactoring, documentation and code reviews, while ensuring changes are correct, secure and maintainable.
• Support the development and testing of AI‑powered features for existing tools
• Contribute to the creation of datasets and evaluation metrics for AI models
• Participate in team meetings and code reviews
• Learn and apply best practices for software development and AI implementation
• Work with Product Management, Designer, UX Research and other developers to understand and convert requirements into design requirements and provide estimates for development

Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in‑office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in‑office expectation)

What you bring

Basic

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or equivalent
• Fluency in English
• Experience with software development concepts
• Experience using AI coding assistants or LLM tools (for example, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or similar) to write, refactor or document code

Preferred

• Interest in AI and its applications in software engineering
• Demonstrated ability to verify AI’s work: writing and running tests, debugging issues, checking for security/privacy concerns and reasoning about whether a suggestion is appropriate
• Curiosity and adaptability to learn new tools and workflows quickly, and to improve them based on what you observe in practice
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset; comfortable asking questions, sharing trade‑offs and incorporating feedback
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as TypeScript/JavaScript, Java or C#, and familiarity with building web applications or services (front‑end frameworks like React/Vue/Angular, or back‑end services and RESTful APIs)
• Great oral/written communication skills
• Interest in learning about cloud services and distributed systems
• Passion for learning new software technologies and AI techniques and for sharing knowledge