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Research Scientist - Multimodal Models Intern: 2025

IBM Computing, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States, 10598


IBM Research Scientist - Multimodal Models Intern: 2025 in Yorktown Heights, New York

IntroductionAre you interested in multimodal large language models (LLMs) that combine vision, speech, and language? Are you passionate about developing systems that make a real-world impact? Would you enjoy publishing your work in the most prestigious AI conferences in the world, and making your code open source? If you answered yes to these questions, then you should apply to our summer internship position at IBM. We are seeking highly motivated students with a background in multimodal LLMs to join our team.Your Role and ResponsibilitiesThis is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May - August or June - September for quarter system schools.As an intern, you will be responsible for conducting cutting-edge research and development on large language and multimodal models for exciting enterprise use cases. In this role, you are expected to develop high-quality software to support novel AI model architectures, new techniques for cross-modal synthetic data generation, push the frontiers on vision and/or speech understanding, and develop novel approaches for aligning modalities to large language models, among other possible projects.Required Technical and Professional ExpertiseCandidates must be enrolled in a Master's or a PhD program.Hands-on experience with multimodal LLMs, computer vision, or speech processing.Solid knowledge of self-attention models such as Transformers, Conformers, and statistical inference.Strong programming skills and knowledge about deep learning libraries.Great problem-solving skills, with a strong desire for quality and engineering excellence.Preferred Technical and Professional ExpertisePublications in top-tier AI conferences.About Business UnitResearch is the organic growth engine and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, 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.Your Life @ IBMIn 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 live 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 every day, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.Are you ready to be an IBMer?About IBMIBM'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.Location StatementSupplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, a 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 where required by applicable law.Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

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