Computer Science AI Reasoning Architecture Intern: 2025 Full-time

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.

IBM research interns are expected to develop innovative ideas and concepts (theoretical or experimental) while performing advanced scientific or engineering tasks resulting in highly complex, original and creative scientific or engineering achievements.
As an IBM Exploratory Computer Science intern, you will work closely with an assigned mentor on a project researching AI reasoning. This project may involve implementing AI architectures that can reason, and/or defining and running experiments on AI reasoning using existing AI architectures. You will also be expected to write a research report or paper on the research done during your internship, and present your work at internal research meetings and external workshops and/or conferences.

Introduction
The Exploratory Computer Sciences program at IBM Research is seeking candidates who will contribute to foundational research topics in AI. Start and end dates for this Internship are during Summer 2025 (3 months) at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York. 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 Hybrid Cloud and AI. And looking to the horizon, we are placing big bets on a pipeline of ambitious exploratory science breakthroughs which will be foundational for the future of computing. With more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents, IBM Research is one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Candidates should be active graduate students that match well with the following:
– Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies.
– Coursework in AI/ML/CS such as AI architectures, foundation models, decision support, reasoning, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems.
– A track record of co-authoring technical reports and publications.
– Strong programming skills and the ability to program in Python to implement methods for AI.
– Experience in conducting AI experiments and interpreting the results.
– Experience with machine learning environments.
– Strong communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
– Experience with open-source contributions.
– Experience in doing software development as part of a research and development team.

Required Education
Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Education
Master’s Degree

About Business Unit
IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines ‘What’s Next in Computing’ to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

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Other Relevant Job Details
Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year. This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Being You @ IBM
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