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Buffalo, NY

Internship

Hybrid

Intern

IBM is a global leader in consulting, focusing on long-term relationships and collaboration with clients. The Data Scientist Intern role offers the opportunity to work on client projects, enhance analytical skills, and develop effective communication abilities while being mentored by professionals in the field.

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Responsibilities

Receive mentorship from diverse professionals in science engineering and consulting applying analytical rigor and statistical methods to predict behaviors.
Develop skills in writing efficient and reusable programs to cleanse integrate and model data.
Assist in conveying analytical results to both technical and non-technical audiences, refining your ability to communicate complex findings.
Utilize program languages like Python to build data pipelines, extracting and transforming data from repositories to consumers.

Qualification

Required

Currently pursuing a quantitative degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
Strong Interpersonal skills that enhance collaboration and relationship building, while also managing dynamic workloads in an agile environment.
Have initiative and passion to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills while embracing a growth mindset to assimilate diverse viewpoints.
Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to communicate effectively through active listening, while also be willing to adapt and have a readiness to take ownership of tasks and challenges.
Familiarity with one or more scripting languages (Python preferred), or a proven computer science foundation.
High school diploma and active pursuit of a higher education degree in a relevant field.
IBM will not provide visa sponsorship for this position. Eligible candidates must not require sponsorship now or in the future to be considered for this role.
These positions, anticipated to start in 2026, will be based at the Buffalo, New York Client Innovation Center.
Candidates must be local to their assigned Client Innovation Center location or willing to relocate prior to their start date at their own expense.
Average on-site work requirement at the local IBM office is at least 3 days per week.
While the role is expected to require minimal business travel, candidates should be willing to travel up to 100% if needed, based on work assignments.

Preferred

Demonstrate familiarity or interest in statistical analysis or data mining through previous internships, personal/academic projects, hackathons, and/or publications.
General familiarity with databases, data-engineering tools (SQL, spark) and cloud platforms (e.g., IBM Cloud, Azure, AWS). Experience with NLP/LLM/GenAI is a plus.
Experience using machine-learning/data science libraries in python (scikit-learn, SciPy, pandas, PyTorch) is a plus.