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Introduction
As a Data Scientist at IBM, you will help transform our clients‡ data into tangible business value by analyzing information, communicating outcomes and collaborating on product development. Work with Best in Class open source and visual tools, along with the most flexible and scalable deployment options. Whether it‡s investigating patient trends or weather patterns, you will work to solve real world problems for the industries transforming how we live.
Your Role and Responsibilities
During your 10-12 week summer internship, you‡ll have an exciting opportunity to:
• Join our IBM North America intern community and meet other IBMers during networking
events, special team events and career development activities
• Participate on a consulting project or initiative and experience first-hand how we help
transform their business
• Focus on our clients‡ technical and business needs to co-create solutions that add value.
• Work collaboratively to deliver innovative solutions for clients
• Develop an understanding of our client‡s future state goals and processes, then define
the steps needed and leading technologies to help turn their goals into reality
• Learn about a client‡s industry, tackle new challenges, and learn about how their
business and technology intersect
At IBM, we prioritize ongoing learning, development of technical and core skills, and investing in
your personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and mentorship – you‡ll get
exposure to all that and more as an intern.
As a Data Scientist Intern at IBM, you‡ll help transform clients‡ data into tangible business value by analyzing information, communicating outcomes, and collaborating on product development.
In your role, you will be responsible for:
• Implementing and validating predictive and prescriptive models, creating and
maintaining statistical models with a focus on big data
• Incorporating a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques
• Writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner
• Using leading edge and open-source tools such as Python, R, and TensorFlow,
combined with IBM tools
• Working in an Agile, collaborative environment and partnering with other data scientists,
engineers, and consultants to bring analytical rigor and statistical methods to the
challenges of predicting behaviors
• Communicating with internal and external clients to understand and define business
needs and appropriate modelling techniques to provide analytical solutions
• Evaluating modelling results and communicating the results to technical and non-
technical audiences
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Familiarity with programming/scripting in a language such as Java or Python
• Basic understanding of statistical programming in a language such as R, Python, SAS,
or Scala
• Exposure to analytical software such as SAS, SPSS, or MATLAB
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work effectively with individuals,
strengthening relationships to achieve win-win solutions
• Ability to look at things differently, debug, troubleshoot, design, and implement solutions
to technical issues
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Exposure to Cloud – AWS, Azure, Google Could or IBM Cloud
• Exposure or interest in Design Thinking and Agile development methodology
• Initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills
• A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate
different points of view
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 50 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.
