Research Scientist – LLM Development Intern: 2025

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Research
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Research Scientist – LLM Development Intern: 2025

Multiple Locations See All

Yorktown Heights

San Jose

Cambridge

Albany
Research
Intern

Introduction
Are you excited about the latest advances in foundation models? Are you interested in advancing efficiency of large language models, publishing your work in the most prestigious AI conferences in the world, and making your code open source? How about working closely with top-notch MIT faculty, students, and IBM scientists in a flexible and fun environment? Are you passionate about opportunities to bridge your scientific work to real-world impact? If you answered yes to these questions, then you should apply to our summer internship position with background in natural language processing to join our team.

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.

The candidate will be responsible for conducting cutting-edge research on natural language processing, developing prototype solutions to real-world problems, and publishing papers in top-quality conferences. The ideal candidate will be hands on with distributed programming skills, stays on top of AI research and will be responsible for wide spectrum of tasks from ideation, running ablation experiments to prove out ideas, distributed model training, evaluation on various use cases and will enable better collaboration with other IBM teams for areas that need joint attention.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Applicants should be PhD & MS students.
Ability to quickly prototype ideas and use creative approaches for developing large language models.
Developing novel architectures for language models and implement these models using open-source libraries.
Making language models more interpretable, explainable, and transparent.
Systematically evaluating language models on standardized academic and enterprise benchmarks.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Publication in top AI conferences
Experience with distributed training and inference of large language models

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Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year. This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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