About the role#
As an Applied AI Research Intern, you will join the Software Innovation Lab to work on the foundations of artificial intelligence and data. You will work in a mentored team to bridge fundamental science and engineering. Your work will focus on AI models for real-time data, context backbones for agents, and stream-native AI. You will help develop Event World Models that learn, reason, predict, and plan from evolving event streams and enterprise data.
What you'll do#
- Explore research areas including event world models, real-time context optimization, and semantic stream processing.
- Investigate challenges related to efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
- Test new theories and design experiments to validate computational models.
- Formulate research questions and design algorithms.
- Build prototypes and evaluate them through experimentation.
- Contribute to publications, patents, open-source artifacts, and technical demonstrations.
What you'll need#
- Knowledge of machine learning, LLMs, AI planning, transformer models, or generative AI with strong theoretical foundations.
- Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks like PyTorch.
- Ability to formulate hypotheses, design experiments, analyze results, and solve problems involving sequential or structured data.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills as shown through publications, academic projects, or open-source contributions.
- Experience in world models, sequence modeling, reinforcement learning, knowledge representation, or causal reasoning.
- Experience applying LLMs or foundation models to structured, event, or enterprise data.
- Familiarity with event streams, Kafka, Flink, or Spark Streaming.
- Publications or submissions to leading AI, ML, data management, or systems conferences.
- Current enrollment in a Computer Science or Data Science program.
Location & details#
- Location: Yorktown Heights, New York.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Work Modality: Hybrid.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
- Compensation: This is a paid position.
About IBM
IBM provides IT services and consulting to a global client base. The company develops technology solutions across areas such as cloud computing, security, analytics, and infrastructure. It operates as a public organization with more than 10,001 employees. The corporate headquarters are located in Armonk, New York.
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