Research Intern - Platform for AI

Introduction

IBM India since 1992 provides solutions and services spanning all major industries including financial services, healthcare, government, automotive, telecommunications and education, among others. As a trusted partner with wide-ranging service capabilities, IBM helps clients transform and succeed in challenging circumstances. The diversity and breadth of the entire IBM portfolio of research, consulting, solutions, services, systems and software, uniquely distinguishes IBM India from other companies in the industry.

Business Unit Introduction

IBM Research - India ( https://research.ibm.com/labs/india) invites applications for its Internship Program in Computer Science, Mathematical Sciences including AI, Hybrid Cloud and Quantum Computing at its locations in Gurgaon and Bangalore.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Summer Internship Program is one of the major activities under the University Relation Program. IBM Research India offers Summer Internship to the bright students of leading technical Universities in India. IBM Research India provides industry experience and world class technologies to these students to show their talent. During internship students work on current projects happening in the lab, they solve problems with the help of their mentors. Idea is to give industry experience to the students and look for future employees.We are looking for a talented and highly motivated engineer/scientist to help advance our effort on creating the most efficient large language models, with a specific focus on creating value for Enterprises. The candidate will be responsible for training, finetuning and inference of language models, developing prototype solutions to real-world problems, working closely with IBM Infrastructure teams, and IBM scientists in a flexible and fun environment.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Excellent coding skills in Java/Python (including Pandas, NumPy), Data Structures, Algorithms, Problem Solving, Linear Algebra, Probability, Statistics, Experience with VS Code, Jupyter notebooks, GitCloud platforms and frameworks (AWS/Azure/IBM/Google), Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift), Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), Networking, Security, Scripting, Monitoring and Logging, AI/ML fundamentals

• Good programming and hands on experience in python
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies (containerization, kubernetes)
• Exposure to different model types like Dense, MoE, Mamba and multimodal models.
• Experience with Pytorch and FSDP
• Exposure to tuning and GPU optimization
• Experience with internals of training stacks
• Exposure to different tuning techniques including SFT, LoRA, RL.
  

Eligibility Criteria

• B.E. / B.Tech
• M.E. / M.Tech (including Dual Degree programs)
• Ph.D.
• Minimum 70% or 7.0 CGPA and above in the pursuing degree
  

Time Duration

The internship will be conducted between May 2026 to August 2026, for a maximum duration of 3 months.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Exposure to Triton and Hugging Face
• Exposure to distributed foundation model training
• Familiarity of GPU architectures, NCCL and compilers / Pytorch Compile