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Research Scientist - LLM Development Intern: 2025

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


IBM Research Scientist - LLM Development Intern: 2025 in Yorktown Heights, New York

IntroductionAre you excited about the latest advances in foundation models? Are you interested in advancing the efficiency of large language models, publishing your work in the most prestigious AI conferences in the world, and making your code open source? How about working closely with top-notch MIT faculty, students, and IBM scientists in a flexible and fun environment? Are you passionate about opportunities to bridge your scientific work to real-world impact? If you answered yes to these questions, then you should apply to our summer internship position with a background in natural language processing 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.The candidate will be responsible for conducting cutting-edge research on natural language processing, developing prototype solutions to real-world problems, and publishing papers in top-quality conferences. The ideal candidate will be hands-on with distributed programming skills, stay on top of AI research, and will be responsible for a wide spectrum of tasks from ideation, running ablation experiments to prove out ideas, distributed model training, evaluation on various use cases, and enabling better collaboration with other IBM teams for areas that need joint attention.Required Technical and Professional ExpertiseApplicants should be PhD & MS students.Ability to quickly prototype ideas and use creative approaches for developing large language models.Developing novel architectures for language models and implement these models using open-source libraries.Making language models more interpretable, explainable, and transparent.Systematically evaluating language models on standardized academic and enterprise benchmarks.Preferred Technical and Professional ExpertisePublication in top AI conferences.Experience with distributed training and inference of large language models.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.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.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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