Edge AI Research Intern - Accelerators & Inference

IBM; Town of Yorktown (NY); On-site; USD 89,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Research is offering a Summer Intern position in Yorktown Heights, NY, focusing on AI workloads mapped to specialized accelerators for edge and cloud platforms.

You will develop AI kernels, optimize inference workloads, and analyze performance across edge-centric workloads such as wireless and 5G/6G related tasks. Collaboration with AI systems and hardware researchers is expected.

Qualifications

• > Strong programming skills and experience with low-level software development and performance optimization.
• > Strong foundations in mathematics, algorithms, and numerical methods.
• > Experience with AI inference, machine learning systems, signal processing, or related computational workloads.
• > Familiarity with digital systems, computer architecture, accelerator architectures, DSP architectures, or FPGA-based implementations.
• > Demonstrated ability to independently develop, prototype, and evaluate complex technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• > Develop and optimize AI kernels and inference workloads for custom accelerator architectures.
• > Evaluate and benchmark performance, efficiency, and scalability across representative workloads.
• > Explore mappings of signal-processing and communication algorithms onto specialized computing platforms.
• > Prototype and implement algorithms using low-level programming techniques and hardware-aware software optimization.
• > Collaborate with researchers across AI systems, computer architecture, and communications domains.
• > Contribute to the identification of new opportunities for AI acceleration in edge computing applications.

Skills

Low-level programming

Mathematics

Algorithms

Numerical methods

AI inference

Signal processing

ML systems

Computer architecture

FPGA

Accelerator architectures

Prototyping

Independent development

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

IBM Research is offering a Summer Intern position in Yorktown Heights, NY, focusing on AI workloads mapped to specialized accelerators for edge and cloud platforms.

You will develop AI kernels, optimize inference workloads, and analyze performance across edge-centric workloads such as wireless and 5G/6G related tasks. Collaboration with AI systems and hardware researchers is expected.