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About IBM

IBM Services is a team of business, strategy, and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world’s economy. IBM Services partners with the world’s leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio, and world-class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.

Your role

IBM India Research Lab is a premier research lab not only in India but also in the Asia region. The India lab has an impressive list of achievements and innovations in AI, Hybrid Cloud, and Security. Here they focus on a wide array of projects in exploratory and applied research from multiple domains:

• NLP, Conversation Systems, Data, and AI, Distributed Systems, Cryptography, and many more.
• They have a vibrant and growing open-source program in established communities such as Hyperledger and Kubernetes.
• They have many internship positions available and are seeking highly motivated students with a background in computer science, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, or equivalent areas.
• The ability to work independently with the latest tools in these focus areas is highly desired.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• As a Research Intern, do you get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities – where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust – where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join IBM, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

Training, development & rotations

IBM continuously invests in up-skilling and re-skilling their workforce. With the required 40 hours of learning a year, IBMers explore their interests with a wide range of learning tools and resources. Every IBMer has the opportunity to avail of external technical and non-technical certifications without any cap.

Salary & benefits

The average annual salary for this role will range from INR 4.5 to 5.5 LPA (Source: glassdoor). Below are the employee benefits at IBM:

• Remote working
• Soft skill training
• Job training
• Health insurance
• Free transportation
• Cafeteria
• Gymnasium
• Team outings
• Travel assistance
• Education assistance
• Free food
• Childcare

Career progression

IBM offers a competitive variable pay plan structure which may include incentives, bonuses, equity, and recognition. They have regular performance appraisals where an IBMer and their manager regularly evaluate your performance throughout the year. IBMers are encouraged role movement which is based on the skills of the IBMer and available opportunities at any given point in time.

IBM offers numerous opportunities for interns and fresh graduates to take advantage of. There are internship programs, apprenticeships, and other training programs to participate in and establish yourself in a chosen career path.

Work-life balance

IBM has a good platform to learn about multitasking. IBM provides a hybrid working option with flexible work timings. They are known for their flexible work environment. However, the option to work from home is not an entitlement, it is purely dependent on the role.

Culture & vibe

Like most leading organizations in their respective industries, IBM has a good and healthy work culture. They thrive on great individuals and good corporate policies. However, the culture is somewhat conservative because of IBM's complex management setup.

Despite the laid-back culture, IBM is filled with radical thinkers that have contributed to the growth and success of this company. IBM is the place for a fresh graduate who wants a healthy work atmosphere to learn and grow professionally.

About you

Here’s what the company is looking for in this role:

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

• Student must be enrolled in one of the following degree programs: Btech/MS/Mtech/PhD
• Preferred degrees include Computer science, Mathematics.
• Students should have good hands-on experience in one or more of these programming languages widely used in open-source community projects such as Go, Python, Ruby, C/C++, Java, Node.js, Javascript, etc.
• Students should have decent Linux programming exposure.
• Good to have some exposure to open source projects within Kubernetes/Big Data platform communities such as Knative, Operators, Fluentd, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Good knowledge of software engineering practices including agile processes
• Students must have a very strong problem-solving aptitude and the ability to delve into multifaceted pieces of knowledge

How to apply

To apply for this role, just click on the "Apply on employer site" button. It will navigate to the career section where the application can be submitted easily.

The basic recruitment process includes:

• Applying for the desired job position
• Screening of applications
• Virtual assessments
• Physical interviews