Data Scientist Intern - OneIT - Poughkeepsie, NY - 2027

IBM; City of Poughkeepsie (NY); On-site; USD 67,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Systems internship in the New York area seeks a student to join the Cost Optimization team, partnering across finance, supply chain, product management, development and engineering to identify cost-saving opportunities. You will apply data science, AI tools and financial analysis to build business cases and drive process improvements across multiple disciplines, including hardware products.

This role emphasizes collaboration, growth, and delivering tangible outcomes for IBM while offering

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Data Science, Cost or Product Engineering.
• Prior exposure to cost-related roles and cross-team collaboration.
• Exposure to supply chain, development, product management, manufacturing or finance.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Growth minded, trusted, team focused, courageous, resourceful and outcome oriented.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders in a multidisciplinary team to explore cost-optimizing opportunities.
• Leverage AI tools, financial analysis and data science to build business cases, including competitive benchmarking, to support cost optimization and process improvements.

Skills

Cross-functional collab

Data science exposure

Programming basics

Cost engineering exposure

Supply chain exposure

Strong communication

Technology passion

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? The IBM Cost Optimization team is seeking a talented individual that can help manage an opportunity to partner across teams in finance, supply chain, product management, development and engineering. Do you have a passion for collaborating across organizations and finding innovative ways to improve process? If so, then please read on.

You will join a passionate team of high skilled experts that are fun-spirited, collaborative and highly ingenious in finding win/win opportunities for the business. This is an opportunity to work collaboratively with a diverse group of experts across various disciplines to drive process improvements among Systems.

Your role and responsibilities

Work with stakeholders and others in a multidisciplinary team to worth through innovative opportunities that optimize cost.

Leverage AI tools, financial analysis and data science to develop business cases including competitive benchmarking to support cost optimization and process improvements.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Data Science, Cost and Product Engineering etc

Prior (project or internship) exposure to cost-related roles and projects that involve cross-team collaboration.

Exposure to supply chain, development, product management, manufacturing or finance.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Passion for technology and engineering.

Growth minded, trusted, team focused, courageous, resourceful, and outcome focused.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Direct experience in Cost Engineering, particularly with hardware offerings.Experience and familiarity with programming and scripting tools

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future.Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfoliodesigned for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 15 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Projected Minimum Salary per year

66,600.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

154,000.00

Position type

Internship

No Travel

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)