IBM Internship 2026: IBM Research India is hiring bright students for Research Intern roles in AI, Platform for AI, and Quantum. Open to B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech/PhD candidates with strong coding and AI/ML skills. Internship duration: May–Aug 2026.

IBM Internship 2026 – Research Intern (AI / Platform for AI / Quantum)

Job Role: Research Intern – AI / Platform for AI / Quantum

Qualification: B.E / B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech / Ph.D (including Dual Degree programs)

Experience: Students / Freshers

Batch: 2026

Job Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon

Salary: ₹42,343 per month (Estimated)

Duration: May 2026 – August 2026 (3 Months)

Last Date: ASAP

🔹 Research Intern – AI

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.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Excellent coding skills in Python (including Pandas, NumPy)
• Strong grasp of Data Structures, Algorithms, Problem Solving
• Solid foundation in Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics
• Hands-on experience with VS Code, Jupyter Notebooks, Git
• AI/ML Fundamentals: supervised & unsupervised learning, classification, regression, neural networks, clustering
• Learning fundamentals and Data Manipulation/Analysis for large datasets
• Proficiency in AI libraries/frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Experience in Deep Learning, Foundation Models, Large Language Models
• Familiar with Generative AI frameworks such as langchain and crew.ai
• Expertise in unstructured data processing
• Experience working with platforms such as Watsonx.ai or similar
• Familiarity with risks associated with AI deployments, including agents going rogue

We are looking for a talented and highly motivated engineer/scientist to contribute to our research and development efforts across multiple frontiers of AI. The candidate will work on creating efficient and scalable large language and foundation models, with a specific focus on enterprise applications. Areas of research include AI for IT automation, intersection of data and AI, agentic middleware and models, embedding and AI-based retrieval, time series foundation models, geospatial and multi-modal foundation models, GenAI security, AI for math and reasoning, and AI for software engineering.

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: May 2026 – August 2026 (3 Months)

Preferred technical and professional experience

• AI libraries/frameworks such as TensorFlow/PyTorch, Jupyter notebooks, Deep learning fundamentals, Data Manipulation and Analysis for large data, tools (pandas, NumPy), linear algebra, probability, statistics, Git, Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift)

🔹 Research Intern – Platform for AI

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.

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, Git
• Cloud 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: May 2026 – August 2026 (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

🔹 Research Intern – Quantum

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.

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, Git

Subareas:

1. Qiskit development:

• open source development and software engineering

• coding skill in Qiskit

• coding experience in Rust

• good to have: foundations in quantum computing, graph theory, probability

2. AI for Quantum:

• hands-on skill in large language models, agentic AI and reinforcement learning frameworks or workflows

• familiarity with machine learning model development and data science

• deployment and engineering of AI solutions

3. Quantum algorithm and engineering:

• theoretical foundation in quantum computing including QAOA

• coding skill in Qiskit

• ability to read a paper and implement its methodology

• good to have: understanding of tensor networks

4. Services, infrastructure and reliability:

• knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, GitOps, linux and open source contributions

• experience with IAM, RBAC, encryption, secret management and CNCF tools

• familiarity with building services in NodeJS / Typescript / Python, and Vector DBs or bot development

How to Apply for IBM Internship 2026?

All interested and eligible candidates can apply for this internship online by visiting the IBM careers page.

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