Agentic AI Engineer Developer Intern (January 2027 - 4 Months - Toronto)

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science

Toronto, ON, Canada

Posted on Aug 28, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Agentic AI Engineer Intern at IBM, you'll work with clients to co-create solutions to major real-world challenges by using best practice technologies, tools, techniques, and products to translate business requirements into the design, development and evaluation of production-grade AI agents on the Microsoft stack.

When working in this abstract, fast paced and continuously changing tech world, resilience, commitment, and curiosity serve as the foundation for success as an IBM Developer.

You will participate in many aspects of the development lifecycle, such as design, code implementation, testing, evaluation, and support. You will build and test AI agents using Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, the Microsoft Agent Framework and Semantic Kernel; implement retrieval-augmented generation pipelines over enterprise content with Azure AI Search; expose and consume tools through Model Context Protocol servers; and contribute to multi-agent orchestration patterns including planner/worker, supervisor, and human-in-the-loop approval flows. You also could become a contributor within Open-Source communities across multiple disciplines.

In your role, you will be supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for the wider business, our external clients, and their customers. Our culture of flexibility and freedom are pillars that embrace long-term career growth and learning opportunities in an environment that highlights your unique skills and experience.

This position resides in Toronto and is a 4-month work term commencing in January 2027. All applicants must be eligible to work full-time in Canada and enrolled full-time in an eligible post-secondary program. It is mandatory that applicants return to full-time studies upon completion of the work term. Candidates pursuing Bachelor's or Master's degrees are eligible. MBA and PhD candidates are not eligible for this opportunity.

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Competent & Working Knowledge with the following programming languages: Python, C#/.NET, TypeScript/JavaScript with React, Object Oriented Preferred
  • Understanding of API specs and knowledge of how to create and integrate with REST services
  • Foundational understanding of large language models: prompting, embeddings, context windows, and function/tool calling
  • Microsoft Azure, Artificial Intelligence on Azure and on-premises enterprise, knowledge or experience with DevSecOps and Agile methods
  • Exposure to Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry), Azure OpenAI models, or Azure AI Search
  • Working familiarity with Git-based version control and collaborative development workflows
  • Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply by listening actively and conveying difficult messages in a positive manner
  • Initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills
  • Computer Engineering, Computer Science students with strong API and backend development skills
  • Must be eligible to work full-time for the full duration of the internship starting in January 2027
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Hands-on experience with the Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, Foundry Agent Service
  • Experience with vector and hybrid search on Azure AI Search, Azure Cosmos DB, or pgvector on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Experience with Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, or Dataverse
  • Containerization with Docker, deployment on Azure Container Apps or Azure Kubernetes Service, infrastructure as code with Bicep and the Azure Developer CLI
  • CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and use of GitHub Copilot in the development workflow
  • Familiarity with agent interoperability standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Exposure to Azure AI Content Safety, evaluation tooling, red-teaming, or prompt-injection and jailbreak testing
  • Front-end development with React for agent user interfaces
  • Object Oriented Design
  • Exposure or interest in Design Thinking and Agile development methodology
  • A demonstrable portfolio: GitHub repositories, hackathon projects, or a personal agent build
  • A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view
  • Preferred Discipline: Computer Eng, Electrical Eng, Software Eng, Systems Eng, Nanotech Eng, Mechatronic Eng, Data Science, Mathematics

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In 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.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’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.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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