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AI Modeling Internship for Climate & Sustainability

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science
Multiple locations
Posted on Jan 31, 2025
Introduction
IBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence, creating breakthroughs in , 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.

As an intern, your responsibilities will include designing, developing and conducting experiments with large models that tackle climate & sustainability challenges. You will work with complex earth observation, weather and climatesets in high-performance multi-GPU environments. The resulting work will be of a calibre for publication in peer-reviewed literature.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies.
  • Required expertise includes training and designing models with PyTorch for spatial and temporal applications using large geospatialsets.
  • You should be familiar with advanced concepts such as diffusion and graph neural networks, and have experience implementing deep learning models for computer vision and timeseries applications.


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Preferred expertise includes implementing advanced models including multi-modal fusion.
  • We also desire a candidate with experience developing models for geospatial or weather and climate applications.