Quantum Software Developer Intern: 2025

Introduction
As a software developer with IBM Quantum your job will be to write code for the suite of quantum software tools and cloud services that are part of our full-stack approach to delivering IBM’s quantum computing systems to quantum application developers and research scientists. Areas of software development include quantum machine learning quantum simulations quantum optimization quantum software architecture compilers noise mitigation techniques cloud-native development cloud microservices and cloud APIs (among other areas).

We are advancing quantum computing technology hardware and software while exploring applications to make quantum broadly usable and accessible. With a worldwide network of Fortune 500 companies academic institutions researchers educators and enthusiasts we are committed to driving innovation for our clients our partners and the open source Qiskit community.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Candidate should be pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree.
• Currently enrolled in an academic undergraduate program at an accredited university.
• Proficiency with Git and/or Github.
• Experience with programming in cloud systems or scientific programming languages (e.g TypeScript JavaScript Go Python C++ Julia Rust).

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with (or exposure to) the Qiskit quantum computing framework.
• Passion for coding demonstrated through personal projects or a Github portfolio.
• Curiosity for exploring new technologies and contributing to open-source projects.
• Recognition as a Qiskit Advocate or certification as an IBM quantum Developer is a plus but not required.