Quantum AI Research Intern

International Business Machines Corporation; Dublin; On-site; EUR 20,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Research in Ireland is offering an internship at the intersection of quantum optimization, AI, and systems engineering. You will explore how AI accelerates development, automates experimentation, and enables users to leverage quantum computing for optimization.

We invite PhD or Master’s candidates in CS, physics, or math to contribute to co-designing hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and evaluating quantum-classical workloads on near-term devices and future hardware.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master's candidates in computer science, physics, applied mathematics, or related disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Develop methods to determine the optimal solver (quantum, classical, AI or hybrid) for complex optimization problems.
• Design, benchmark and evaluate agentic AI systems to leverage quantum optimization algorithms.
• Co-design of hybrid quantum-classical optimization algorithms and the quantum platform to support novel workloads.

Skills

Python

Qiskit

Optimization

Generative AI

Distributed cloud

Education

PhD or Master's candidates in CS/Physics/Math

Job description

IBM Research in Ireland is offering an internship at the intersection of quantum optimization, AI, and systems engineering. You will explore how AI accelerates development, automates experimentation, and enables users to leverage quantum computing for optimization.

We invite PhD or Master’s candidates in CS, physics, or math to contribute to co-designing hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and evaluating quantum-classical workloads on near-term devices and future hardware.