Software Engineer - AI-powered Automation Intern: 2025

Introduction
At work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
This is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May – August or June – September for quarter system schools.

At IBM Research we invent things that matter to the world. Today we are pioneering the most promising and disruptive technologies that will transform industries and society including the future of AI Blockchain and Quantum Computing. We are driven to discover. With more than 3000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents IBM Research is one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs. Artificial intelligence is having a profound impact on all aspects of our lives and is transforming how work is conducted in every industry.

Today AI systems are enabling businesses to personalize services converse with customers automate operations optimize workflows predict demand and recommend next best actions. A common thread to our ambitious AI and watsonx Research agenda is to understand how AI systems and algorithms can be designed responsibly and produce effective outcomes to their enterprise users.

In your role as a Research Software Engineer you will interact with the brightest minds in AI and will help transform AI research ideas into scalable robust systems that solve real-world problems and help us advance our research and development agenda on artificial intelligence including areas such Natural Language Processing Code LLM s Agents and Agentic Workflows Generative AI Applications for Code Time-Series Business and IT Automation and API Composition and Orchestration.

You have a proven interest and experience in implementing innovative software solutions and applications. In your role as AI Research Software Engineer you will work in close collaboration with other researchers and engineers to create maintain and support world-class applications and/or infrastructure in support of our research and development agenda on artificial intelligence . This may also include any research related to your project.You will also deliver production level-code to support the commercialization of the resulting assets. Demonstrated communication skills are essential.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Applicants should be BS students
• Programming skills in Python Java C++ /C etc.
• Backend storage technologies such as SQL and Non- SQL database s ( Postgre s Mongo DB Cloud ant ElasticSearch etc.)
• Experience in Kubernetes CI/CD tools and operators IBM Cloud and ma chi ne learning training pipelines
• Software engineering practices including agile techniques
• System building/debugging/testing skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Ma chi ne learning engineering: creating training pipelines and evaluating models using toolkits such as PyTorch Tensorflow and scikit -learn.
• Experience in web application development and framework s including HT ML CSS and Java Script JQuery React Flask Node.js etc.
• Qualitative and quantitative user research and user-centric design
• Solving analytical problems using rigorous and quantitative approaches
• Analyzing large scale data from a variety of sources
• Previous experience publishing scientific results e.g. at NeurIPS IC ML ICLR IJCAI ACL AAAI KDD CHI IUI CSCW or similar