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2025 Intern: Research Scientist - Trustworthy Foundation Models

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2025 Intern: Research Scientist - Trustworthy Foundation Models

Albany, NY

Introduction
IBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence, creating breakthroughs in quantum computing, discovering how blockchain will reshape the enterprise, and much more. Join a team that is dedicated to applying science to some of today's most complex challenges, whether it's discovering a new way for doctors to help patients, teaming with environmentalists to clean up our waterways or enabling retailers to personalize customer service.

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.

Artificial intelligence, aided by the recent emergence of Foundation Models, is transforming our lives and holds great promise for increasing productivity across a wide range of industries. These powerful models must be handled responsibly and guided toward effective enterprise solutions.

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We are looking for summer interns to assist us in furthering our research and development agenda on safe, trustworthy, and reliable foundation models guided by appropriate principles. In this position, you will collaborate closely with researchers and engineers to conduct world-class research and development.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies.
  • Experience conducting research in Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning or similar.
  • Programming languages and Frameworks: Pytorch, Python, Transformers, etc.
  • Experience prompting, training, or fine-tuning large Foundation Models.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Experience with reinforcement learning is a plus.
  • Experience publishing scientific results in technical communities such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, ACL, AAAI, or similar.

Client-provided location(s): Albany, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
Job ID: IBM-21097301
Employment Type: Intern

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