Research Scientist—Responsible Technologies Intern: 2025

Introduction

The Responsible Tech team's research is focused on the intersection of technology and society. They study and devise approaches to mitigate technology risks across research and development processes, and foster innovations that expand societal benefits of technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking a motivated intern with background in computer science, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, computational linguistics, or a related field to leverage state-of-the-art reinforcement learning techniques for language model alignment. In this role, you will have a freedom to explore multiple research directions: developing sophisticated reward models that capture human values by effectively decomposing complex value alignment into learnable components; creating synthetic training data through policy-guided rejection sampling; and implementing RL for alignment. We're particularly interested in approaches that can leverage human feedback efficiently, scale to large language models, and provide verifiable alignment guarantees. Candidates currently enrolled in graduate programs are encouraged to apply.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong experience in deep RL
• Familiarity with language models and alignment challenges
• Machine Learning
• Advanced experience with Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow
• Experience with reward modeling and synthetic data generation is highly valued
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Cloud based computation
• Hands on experience with fine tuning of large language models
• Experience working with Huggingface models and data
  
  

About Business Unit

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

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Other Relevant Job Details

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title

Research Scientist—Responsible Technologies Intern: 2025

Job ID

15859

City / Township / Village

Hursley

State / Province

Hampshire

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Research

Employment type

Intern (Fixed Term)

Position type

Internship

Travel required

No Travel

Company

(8660) IBM United Kingdom Limited

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No

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