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AI Platform- MSc and PHD-Summer internship 2026- Research Lab

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science
California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA
Posted on Feb 10, 2026
Introduction

At IBM, a job is more than work. We build, collaborate, and design the future. We learn and envision how our clients can leverage cutting edge technologies. Are you ready to grow and lead in this new era of technology and tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, let’s talk.

Your role and responsibilities

The IBM Research Lab in Israel is seeking exceptional students to join our dynamic team to work on optimizing AI inference platforms, exploring how to streamline and optimize AI inference platforms, such as vLLM and llm-d, for running AI and Agentic workloads. Our team focuses on developing core technologies to enable running the next generation of AI applications and workloads. This includes:

  • Explore and optimize the AI inference platform for heterogenous AI and Agentic workloads.
  • Optimize performance and accuracy trade-offs for high scalable inference systems.
  • Explore and leverage how heterogenous models (e.g., small, large, generic, pre-trained) can optimize AI workloads.
  • Develop and evaluate new platform algorithms leveraging the behavior of AI and Agentic frameworks.

In this position you will:

  • Design and implement algorithms for optimizing inference, e.g., KV-cache mechanisms, LLM context optimizations, etc.
  • Develop code (e.g., in Python and GO) for enterprise AI inference
  • Performing benchmarking and evaluation and gain expertise in AI platforms
  • Gain hands-on experience with enterprise AI software stack, tools and platforms
  • Leverage AI capabilities to accelerate the exploration and development of algorithms
  • Work in a global company gaining team and collaboration practices

This role offers a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge and practical skills in AI solutions and platforms.

We’re looking for fast learners with strong programming skills and a passion for applying and enhancing AI.

Please attach:

  1. Your academic transcript.
  1. Open-source work/contributions if available.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • MSC/PHD Student in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Systems
  • Research topic in the areas of AI, distributed systems or related area
  • Hands-on coding experience, strong programming and problem-solving skills
  • Good command of English
  • Team player with high motivation and self-learning ability
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • PhD students
  • Experience with large language models inference or architecture.

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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