IBM Computing
Responsible Tech Research Scientist Intern: 2025
IBM Computing, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States, 10598
IBM Responsible Tech Research Scientist Intern: 2025 in Yorktown Heights, New York
IntroductionIBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence, creating breakthroughs in quantum computing, discovering how blockchain will reshape the enterprise, and much more. Join a team that is dedicated to applying science to some of today's most complex challenges, whether it's discovering a new way for doctors to help patients, teaming with environmentalists to clean up our waterways or enabling retailers to personalize customer service.Your Role and ResponsibilitiesThis is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May - August or June - September for quarter system schools.We are seeking candidates currently enrolled in a PhD or MD in the humanities and social sciences to work with a small team of interdisciplinary researchers seeking to advance critical perspectives on responsible AI. Leveraging your preferred methods and approaches, you will contribute to a collaborative project aimed at contextualizing, historicizing and theorizing prevailing discourses around AI 'safety'. This will include, for instance, drawing connections between discourses of safety, risk, security, trust, privacy, and transparency, or examining how safety has been mobilized in other settings. It could also entail probing the implications of safety discourses in relation to questions of race, ethnicity, class, gender, empire, etc.Depending on your disciplinary background, you will be expected to engage in in-depth analyses of documents (e.g. archival and legal documents), white papers, research publications, databases, and/or technical artifacts (among others), and share your insights via verbal presentations and written documentations. You will also have the opportunity to co-author articles resulting from the research and findings.Required Technical and Professional ExpertiseApplicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies.Enrolled in a PhD or MA program in the social sciences or humanities, including but not limited to: history, history of science, media studies, anthropology, sociology, english language and literature, philosophy, economics, political science, and area studies.Strong interest and previous experience conducting research from a humanities perspective on topics in science and technology; strong preference for researchers informed by a historical, political, or social perspective.Willingness to work across disciplines and communicate findings to a wide range of audiences, including technologists.Preferred Technical and Professional ExpertiseFamiliarity with scholarship in critical traditions such as feminist theory, decolonial/post-colonial theory, historical materialism, contemporary critical theory, etc.Ability to work independentlyExcellent written and verbal communication skillsPublications in academic venues or popular media (published, forthcoming, or in preparation)About Business UnitIBM 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.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, lives 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, 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, 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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IntroductionIBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence, creating breakthroughs in quantum computing, discovering how blockchain will reshape the enterprise, and much more. Join a team that is dedicated to applying science to some of today's most complex challenges, whether it's discovering a new way for doctors to help patients, teaming with environmentalists to clean up our waterways or enabling retailers to personalize customer service.Your Role and ResponsibilitiesThis is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May - August or June - September for quarter system schools.We are seeking candidates currently enrolled in a PhD or MD in the humanities and social sciences to work with a small team of interdisciplinary researchers seeking to advance critical perspectives on responsible AI. Leveraging your preferred methods and approaches, you will contribute to a collaborative project aimed at contextualizing, historicizing and theorizing prevailing discourses around AI 'safety'. This will include, for instance, drawing connections between discourses of safety, risk, security, trust, privacy, and transparency, or examining how safety has been mobilized in other settings. It could also entail probing the implications of safety discourses in relation to questions of race, ethnicity, class, gender, empire, etc.Depending on your disciplinary background, you will be expected to engage in in-depth analyses of documents (e.g. archival and legal documents), white papers, research publications, databases, and/or technical artifacts (among others), and share your insights via verbal presentations and written documentations. You will also have the opportunity to co-author articles resulting from the research and findings.Required Technical and Professional ExpertiseApplicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies.Enrolled in a PhD or MA program in the social sciences or humanities, including but not limited to: history, history of science, media studies, anthropology, sociology, english language and literature, philosophy, economics, political science, and area studies.Strong interest and previous experience conducting research from a humanities perspective on topics in science and technology; strong preference for researchers informed by a historical, political, or social perspective.Willingness to work across disciplines and communicate findings to a wide range of audiences, including technologists.Preferred Technical and Professional ExpertiseFamiliarity with scholarship in critical traditions such as feminist theory, decolonial/post-colonial theory, historical materialism, contemporary critical theory, etc.Ability to work independentlyExcellent written and verbal communication skillsPublications in academic venues or popular media (published, forthcoming, or in preparation)About Business UnitIBM 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.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, lives 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, 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, 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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