Software Innovation Lab Student Intern

IBM

IBM

Tokyo, Japan

JPY 18k-20k / day

Posted on May 1, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

*This position is offered by IBM Japan.

You will join the Software Innovation Lab, a core organization within IBM Software that leads the development of advanced AI technologies. As a member of the global Agent & Automation team, you will contribute to the development of new capabilities that drive IBM’s next-generation AI software.

The mission of our technical development is to advance automation through AI Agents. However, our target is not the automation of individual tasks such as document creation, programming assistance, or meeting note summarization.

Instead, we focus on high‑value enterprise systems that support critial social and industrial infrastructure. These systems require continuous, large-scale engineering efforts, which is spanning software development, system modernization, security, and compliance operations. Our goal is to leverage cutting-edge AI Agent technologies to enable complex, human‑in‑the‑loop automation that has historically been difficult or impossible to achieve.

You will participate as a member of real project teams and contribute to the development of new features in areas such as:

* AI-driven innovation in enterprise software development

* Automation of infrastructure and platform operations through AI Agents

* Automated compliance management for enterprise systems

* AI-enabled support for enterprise system modernization

Period：3 months in 2026 (Can be negotiated)

Time：9:00～17:36 (default)

Reduced working hours can be negotiated.

Place: Hakozaki (Tokyo)

Daily Salary:

18,000yen (for master's)／20,000yen (for doctoral students)(in case housing allowance is unnecessary)

24,000yen (for master's)／26,000yen (for doctoral students)(including housing allowance)

Daily commuting cost will be paid.

Transportation cost to come to Tokyo is *not* separately paid.

Required education
Master's Degree
Preferred education
Doctorate Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Skills & Knowledge:

・Fundamental programming skills

・Ability to read technical documents in English and engage in basic English conversation

・Ability and willingness to proactively learn and apply new technologies and domains

Language Skills

・English communication skills, including email communication and participation in conference calls

Preferred technical and professional experience

Technical Expertise:

・Expertise in software engineering

・Knowledge and experience with programming languages used in enterprise applications (e.g., Java, COBOL)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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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