Research Scientist Intern – AI Systems 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.
Cloud Infrastructure Research group at IBM Research focuses on the next generation of cloud infrastructure for IBM Cloud and AI systems. The research agenda of the group spans multiple technical areas in the context of hybrid cloud and AI systems, including networking, security, high-speed networked-storage, accelerators.

The selected candidate will focus on systems design for AI infrastructure, developing and prototyping solutions and techniques for future AI workloads including Foundation Models training. Responsibilities of the candidate will also include evaluation of the solutions from performance, scalability, security, and resiliency perspectives.
– Experience in Linux Operating Systems
– Experience with GPU Systems
– Programming expertise with C and Python
– Familiarity with executing AI training, tuning and inferencing workloads
– Familiarity with AI system performance evaluation.

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.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with the following:
GPU Systems
Machine learning workload and performance analysis
AI System Design Experience
Containers and Kubernetes
Programing langueses: Python and C
Operating Systems: Linux

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

Experience with following:

• Analyzing the performance of workloads on large scale systems Micro benchmarks
• Running training, tuning, and inference workloads
• Publishing papers in systems conferences, such as Super Computing, SOSP, IEEE Cloud, Pytorch Conference, NVIDIA GTC, NSDI, ACM Middleware, IEEE Cluster, ISPASS

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.

Introduction

Want to help create the next generation of AI accelerators to power the fine-tuning and training of large language models. Then come join us for a summer internship position at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center’s Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Research team. IBM Research is seeking students interested in working with a team of accomplished technologists to invent what’s next for IBM and the world. As a Hardware Engineer intern, you will work with world-class global researchers focused on design and development of next-generation Artificial Intelligence compute chip and network interconnect technologies.

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