Research Scientist – LLM Research Intern: 2025

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Yorktown Heights

San Jose

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Research
Internship

Research Scientist – LLM Research Intern: 2025

Multiple Locations See All

Yorktown Heights

San Jose

Cambridge

Albany
Research
Internship

Introduction
Want to be a part of preparing and governing data for IBM’s Granite models? We are a group of scientists, engineers and designers working on the state-of-the-art Data and Model Factory that produces all of IBM’s Granite models. Our work enables and accelerates the entire data pipeline, from data clearance and acquisition to engineering. These data are used in pre-training, fine-tuning, instruction-tuning, orAG solutions powered by IBM Granite. We thrive in opensource innovation,esponsible use of data and, collaboration across disciplines, including backend engineering, data science, distributed computing,, among others.

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.

Your responsibilities include:

Conduct cutting-edge research on LLM models
Design and develop new architectures, algorithms, and approaches to improve language models.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product) to integrate models into production systems.
Publish research in top-tier conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, and ACL.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Applicants should be enrolled in a Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related fields.
Expertise in NLP, deep learning, transformer architectures.
Strong experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Proven record of publications in top machine learning or AI conferences.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Your areas of interest should include foundation models, machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data engineering, cloud computing, database management, and other computer science and engineering topics.

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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 whereequired by applicable law. The compensationange 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 timeoles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted toeflect 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 toemain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill theole. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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