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IBM South Africa Research Internships 2025

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Job Highlights

IBM South Africa (Pty) Ltd is recruiting graduates and final year students! Apply now for the IBM Research Internships.

Location: Johannesburg

Join IBM for a unique 6 month paid internship. This program will give you an opportunity to work on meaningful technology solutions, develop scalable software systems, interact and collaborate with research scientists and engineers in generative AI, quantum machine learning and cloud-based workflows.

About IBM Research

IBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence, creating breakthroughs in quantum computing, advancing climate and sustainability science, and much more.

Join a team that is dedicated to applying science to some of today’s most complex challenges, whether it’s developing AI-powered warning systems for vulnerable communities, leveraging quantum computers for drug discovery, or building foundation models to revolutionize the domains of language, geospatial, healthcare, and much more.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Depending on your and experience interests, you will be working in one of the following areas: foundation models, cloud platform development, generative AI, quantum computing applications, or climate and sustainability.

Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in an Honours, Masters or Doctoral degree program in: –
    • Computer Science,
    • Computer & Electronics Engineering,
    • Machine Learning,
    • Data Science,
    • Statistics,
    • Quantum Computing or Quantum Information Science
    • or related technical fields.
  • Students who graduate prior to 1 May 2025 will not be eligible to apply.

Key Attributes

  • Proficiency in Python, PyTorch and experience in at least one additional programming language such as Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, C/C++, etc.
  • For interest in Quantum Applications research, we require experience with Qiskit

  • For interest in climate and sustainability applications and research, we require some familiarity with geospatial and spatiotemporal data and methods
  • Require strong problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Require strong communication and collaboration skills.

Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Experience communicating your research in technical communities, such as publications in Neurips, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, AAAI, KDD, IEEE QCE or similar.
  • Experience in cloud native technologies and platforms.
  • A good understanding of machine learning concepts and some experience in MLOps
  • Familiarity with developing and using APIs.

How to Apply

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