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

• [LLM for code generation] Research for effective use of foundational models for code generation pipelines specific to data tasks such as SQL for data retrieval
• [Agents and Reasoning] Research for developing novel autonomous agentic systems to compete with Text-to-SQL on public leaderboards like BIRD and Spider 2.0
• [Knowledge Graphs, Multi-Modal FMs] Research for novel ways to combine foundational models, knowledge graphs, and multi-modal data for improving tasks such as data discovery and automated text-to-sql
• [FM Inference] Research for improving foundation models inference in terms of both answer generation and computational cost.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies.
• Pursuing graduate studies in computer science and related fields.
• Having at least one Research publication at a top conference in AI.
• Familiarity and working expertise with large language models.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiarity with knowledge graphs, RAG, agentic frameworks.
• Familiarity with reinforcement learning, knowledge distillation and prompt optimization.
• Familiarity with SQL.