Digital Technologies Degree Program – Student Data and AI Developer Full-time

Your Role and Responsibilities
This position resides in Markham, ON and is a 12 month work term commencing in September 2024.

As part of the Digital Technologies Degree Program, you will work full time while spending approximately 20% of your time studying to earn your Bachelor of Applied Science in Digital Technologies degree with York University, Lassonde School of Engineering, Toronto, ON. This program is the first in Canada, designed to provide a powerful combination of both work-based and academic experiences that will give you a competitive edge upon graduation. This program welcomes applicants from all academic backgrounds looking to succeed in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. For questions about this program including eligibility and how to apply, please contact the Student Recruitment and Admissions team at askmarkham@yorku.ca.

Note: To apply for this program and this position, you should not be undertaking any other academic programs. Current students seeking co-op/internships are not eligible for this role. Please note the criteria are set by York University and inquiries are to be directed to askmarkham@yorku.ca . Please do not contact IBM regarding this.

IBM is actively seeking Software Developer Interns to join its dynamic team. The interns could potentially be responsible for deployment / maintenance / support of our software components and development environment through the full systems development lifecycle, enhancing automations on our quality assurance and build infrastructure. This team is working on leading edge technology that is solving some of the world’s most complex problems and supporting the various Business Automation products. The interns could also potentially be responsible for building an enterprise scale, industry leading, full-stack BI solution that employs AI to allow users to better understand and make better decisions from their data. This global team builds and supports IBM watsonx BI Assistant. From within the development team, the intern will work using the Agile model, in a cooperative and innovative environment, interfacing with global teams. In this role:

• You’ll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers.
• You’ll create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability.
• Design and code services, applications and databases that are reusable, scalable, and meet critical architecture goals.
• Create Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that are clean, well-documented, and easy to use.
• Design, code and support technologies that injects AI features into IBM watsonx BI Assistant
• Support and adapt code based on feedback from customers.

Introduction
At IBM, 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.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• GitHub, Jira for project management (Agile)
• Linux, Windows, General scripting languages – Powershell, UNIX shell scripts, perl,
• CI/CD pipeline tools, like Jenkins, Gradle, Travis
• Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, Linux Operating Systems,
• Some experiences in any of the following programming languages: Java, Scala, Go, Python, TypeScript
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly
• Have knowledge in AI/ML Fundamentals
• Good verbal and written English with strong collaboration, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Registered in York’s Digital Technologies Degree Program

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Knowledge of Core Java, Java J2EE, MicroServices Architecture.
• Knowledge of Building Restful API
• Knowledge of Web development, including HTML, CSS, Javascript, NodeJs, React
• Classical NLP
• Prompt Engineering
• Large Language Models, training validation, testing and deployment

Required Education
High School Diploma/GED

Preferred Education
None

About Business Unit
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

Wonder if IBM is the one for you?
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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBM
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Other Relevant Job Details
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.