Foundation Models for Data Software Engineer Intern: 2025

IBM•Yorktown Heights, NY

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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
We are looking for interns with research interest and expertise in implementation of interactive data workflows such as natural language to data insights, implementation of agentic solutions with design patterns like Think, Act, Observe,Reflect
[Knowledge Graphs, Multi-Modal FMs] Implementation of techniques sing combinations of foundational models, knowledge graphs, and multi-modal data for improving tasks such as data discovery and automated text-to-sql
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies
Pursuing graduate studies in computer science and related fields
Strong programming skills in python

To code
To consult
To think along with clients and sell
To make markets
To collaborate
This is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May - August or June - September for quarter system schools
[LLM for code generation] Implementation of pipelines that use foundational models for code generation specific to data tasks such as SQL for data retrieval
[Agents and Reasoning] Implementation of novel autonomous agentic systems to compete with Text-to-SQL on public leaderboards like BIRD and Spider 2.0
[LLMs for DataOps] Implementation of generative AI tooling for DataOps such as data integration and flows, similar to usage of LLMs for DevOps

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