Research Internship

About the job
Introduction

IBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence, creating breakthroughs in quantum computing, advancing climate and sustainability science, and much more. Join a team that is dedicated to applying science to some of today’s most complex challenges, whether it’s developing AI-powered warning systems for vulnerable communities, leveraging quantum computers for drug discovery, or building foundation models to revolutionize the domains of language, geospatial, healthcare, and much more.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Join us for a unique 6 month paid internship. This program will give you an opportunity to work on meaningful technology solutions, develop scalable software systems, interact and collaborate with research scientists and engineers in generative AI, quantum machine learning and cloud-based workflows.

Depending on your and experience interests, you will be working in one of the following areas: foundation models, cloud platform development, generative AI, quantum computing applications, or climate and sustainability.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Currently enrolled in an Honours, Masters or Doctoral degree program in Computer Science, Computer & Electronics Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, Quantum Computing or Quantum Information Science or related technical fields. Students who graduate prior to 1 May 2025 will not be eligible to apply.
Proficiency in Python, PyTorch and experience in at least one additional programming language such as Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, C/C++, etc.
For interest in Quantum Applications research, we require experience with Qiskit
For interest in climate and sustainability applications and research, we require some familiarity with geospatial and spatiotemporal data and methods
Require strong problem solving and analytical skills.
Require strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

Experience communicating your research in technical communities, such as publications in Neurips, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, AAAI, KDD, IEEE QCE or similar.
Experience in cloud native technologies and platforms.
A good understanding of machine learning concepts and some experience in MLOps
Familiarity with developing and using APIs.

About Business Unit

Founded in 2013, IBM Research – Africa was the first industrial research lab on the African continent and continues to be a part of IBM’s global research team with researchers and engineers around the globe. Research is what makes IBM synonymous with the Future of Computing.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.