Research Intern at IBM

Your role and responsibilities

• IBM Research Africa is excited to announce openings for its Research Internship program. This is a unique opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology solutions, develop scalable software systems, and collaborate with leading research scientists and engineers in fields such as generative AI, quantum machine learning, and cloud-based workflows.
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•  As a Research Intern, you will have the opportunity to help develop foundation models, agentic workflows, quantum-ML algorithms, and approaches that impact fundamental sciences and application areas alike.  You will work on industry research projects, take part in  research meetings and discussions, contribute to internal and open-source code repositories, and contribute to commercial products and outputs such as research papers and patents.

Required education

• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred education

• Master’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Currently enrolled in an M.Sc, or Ph.D degree program in Computer Science, Computer & Electronics Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, Quantum Computing, or related technical fields.
• Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, or TensorFlow, and experience in any additional programming languages such as Java, C/C++, etc.
• Good understanding of machine learning algorithms.
• Knowledge of optimization approaches
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience publishing and presenting research in technical communities (e.g., Neurips, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, AAAI, KDD, IEEE QCE).
• Good understanding of Quantum computing
• Experience in MLOps.