Internship Opportunities at IBM

• As a Software Engineering Intern, you will work on research questions that are of interest to IBM and have access to a vast number of tools and resources within the global IBM community to help you succeed.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Enrolled in a 4th Year bachelor’s degree program or final year of master’s program in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Strong understanding of fundamental computer science concepts such as algorithms and data structures, ...
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, including but not limited to: Java, JavaScript, NodeJS or Python.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• C++, Network programming (sockets, polling, completion queues), Boost, basic understanding of zero-copy/memory copy, serialization, RPCs. Additional programming skills are a plus.

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• Experience in delivering software development project(s)
• Experience in cloud native technologies and platforms
• Understanding machine learning concepts and familiarity with a framework e.g. scikit-learn or TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Knowledge of the many tools in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining.
• Strong data structures and algorithm design skills

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• IBM Research Africa is looking for a Ph.D-level intern to join their teams which are exploring foundational models in the field of climate & sustainability and investigating foundational models & anomalous pattern detection techniques. Foundational models are flexible, re-useable models that can be applied to many downstream tasks. These models are set to replace the task-specific models that have been in place for the past decade.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Currently enrolled in a Ph.D program from an accredited university in quantitative fields such as Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, Information Systems
• Demonstrable interest in geospatial and weather data and related machine learning methodologies
• 4 years coding experience with scientific Python stack (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, pytorch, etc.)
• Availability to relocate to Nairobi, Kenya for the duration of the internship