Foundation Models for Data Research Intern: 2025

Introduction
IBM 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 Responsibilities This is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May – August or June – September for quarter system schools.

We are broadly interested in further improving the capabilities of foundation models (FMs) for a range of data management tasks such as data discovery, metadata enrichment, data access and retrieval with querying, and automated data-driven insights.
Topics of interest include research on interactive orchestration of data workflows such as natural language to data insights spanning multiple tools and functions, knowledge-driven data discovery and querying with graphs and mutli-modal FMs, step-by-step planning and reasoning for complex data workflows , and low-computational cost inference techniques for FMs to efficiently automate or assist users with data tasks.
We are looking for interns with skills and tasks of interest include:

• [LLM for code generation] Research for effective use of foundational models for code generation pipelines specific to data tasks such as SQL for data retrieval
• [Agents and Reasoning] Research for developing novel autonomous agentic systems to compete with Text-to-SQL on public leaderboards like BIRD and Spider 2.0
• [Knowledge Graphs, Multi-Modal FMs] Research for novel ways to combine foundational models, knowledge graphs, and multi-modal data for improving tasks such as data discovery and automated text-to-sql
• [FM Inference] Research for improving foundation models inference in terms of both answer generation and computational cost.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies.
• Pursuing graduate studies in computer science and related fields.
• Having at least one Research publication at a top conference in AI.
• Familiarity and working expertise with large language models.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiarity with knowledge graphs, RAG, agentic frameworks.
• Familiarity with reinforcement learning, knowledge distillation and prompt optimization.
• Familiarity with SQL.

Key Job Details
Role:Foundation Models for Data Research Intern: 2025 Location: Multiple Locations See All Yorktown Heights San Jose Cambridge Albany Category:Research Employment Type:Full-time OR Part-time Travel Required:No Travel Contract Type:Internship Company:(0147) International Business Machines Corporation Req ID:729601BR

Projected Minimum Salary:$85,320 per year Projected Maximum Salary:$85,320-$156,420/year per year Date Posted:September 29, 2024