AI & Automation Consultant Intern / Stagiaire conseiller en IA et automatisation

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science · Intern

Remote

Posted on Oct 3, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

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 role and responsibilities

Our team is seeking students with strong critical thinking and a passion for solving business problems with AI. We’re looking for individuals who enjoy structuring problems, working in teams, and telling compelling stories with data.

The successful candidate will join a fast-paced consulting team. In this role, you will help plan, coordinate, and support the delivery of AI-driven solutions to enterprise-scale challenges. Working closely with senior team members and under their guidance, you’ll learn how technical teams and business stakeholders come together to deliver clear, measurable outcomes.

As a Consultant Intern, you will contribute to problem framing and solving, project planning, requirements gathering, and the preparation of insights. You’ll observe and support client meetings and workshops alongside senior team members, building your client-facing skills in a supportive setting. You’ll also gain hands-on exposure to cutting edge AI technologies while learning to translate business problems into AI solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Supporting requirement gathering to understand, document, and frame business problems, business cases, and pain points
  • Leveraging AI tooling to improve internal processes, working models, and deliverables
  • Helping synthesize and communicate insights, recommendations, and outputs to the project team, and to clients alongside senior team members
  • Supporting project planning, timelines, and deliverables across one or more engagements
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support alignment between business needs and technical solutions
  • Helping prepare presentations, reports, and materials that support client deliverables
  • Assisting in identifying opportunities to apply AI and automation to improve business processes
  • Helping track project progress and supporting successful delivery against objectives

You’ll be part of a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and where team members are encouraged to take initiative, think critically, and contribute to meaningful outcomes for clients.

This opportunity is for a hybrid position, based out of Toronto, Calgary, or Montreal, 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. Please note that 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
  • Currently enrolled full-time in a Bachelor’s or Master’s program in Business, Commerce, Economics, or a related field
  • Ability to understand business needs and challenges and apply a logical, defensible approach to solving them
  • Curiosity and creativity in re-imagining how work is done with cutting edge AI tools
  • Sound judgment in using AI responsibly, including verifying outputs for accuracy and protecting sensitive information
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly present ideas and insights to peers and team members
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and build positive working relationships
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams
  • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage timelines and deliver work with attention to detail
  • Eagerness to learn quickly, seek out feedback, and act on it
  • Working proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel for analysis, report creation, and general productivity
  • All locations require fluency in English. Montreal posting additionally requires fluency in French.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Technology focused or technology adjacent coursework, minor, or program, in addition to studies in Business, Commerce, Economics, or similar
  • Familiarity with AI/GenAI concepts (e.g., large language models, prompt design, automation use cases)
  • Exposure to structured problem solving (e.g., hypotheses, issue trees) and a habit of checking your own analysis before sharing it
  • A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view
  • Previous internship, case competition, or project experience in business analysis, consulting, project coordination, or AI
  • Demonstrated interest in data, analytics, AI, or automation through academic coursework, student clubs, or personal projects
  • Exposure to project management or collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Trello)
  • General understanding of how AI and automation can be applied to improve business processes.

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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