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Research Internship - AI for Sustainable Industry

IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science

Dublin, Ireland

Posted on Oct 27, 2025

Introduction

Research scientists at IBM work to invent the technology of tomorrow. Joining us means choosing the big, urgent and mind-bending work that endures and shapes generations. We are passionate about both blue sky innovation and seeing clients and the open source community use our work in the real world. The company's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

At the Dublin lab, the AI for Sustainable Industry team works to bring AI capabilities to industrial challenges like automating operations, optimizing workflows, predicting demand, and recommending next best actions. From research to product, we are interested in scientific contributions to the field, as well as real-world innovative solutions.

We are seeking intern candidates to help us advance our research agenda in areas such as: AI agents guided by knowledge graphs, AI driven resource management, agent evaluation and benchmarking, and approaches to world model building.

The internship aims for publications at top academic venues. During your internship you will work in close collaboration with other researchers and engineers to conduct cutting edge research and software development. Demonstrated communication skills are essential.

Required education

Master's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Fundamentals of machine learning and artificial intelligence
Solid understanding of mathematical concepts such as probabilities, statistics and linear algebra.
Strong Python programming skills building and evaluating ML and AI projects

Preferred technical and professional experience

Knowledge in one or more of the following topics: finetuning algorithms (e.g., LoRA, DPO, etc.), reinforcement learning, model architectures (e.g., transformers, state-space models, etc.), LLM-based agents, agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, RAG, agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, etc.), time series data
Late stage PhD student in computer science, engineering, or related technical field

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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