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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to advance the hybrid cloud and AI journey for some of the world’s most innovative and valuable companies.


Your ability to accelerate impact and drive meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio — including Software and Red Hat.


Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge form the foundation of success in IBM Consulting. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the status quo, explore ideas beyond your role, and develop creative solutions that deliver groundbreaking impact for a broad network of clients.


Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities — in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

During your internship, you will enhance your knowledge and gain professional experience by working on client projects. This role provides an exceptional opportunity to build a compelling portfolio, acquire new skills, gain insights into diverse industries, and embrace novel challenges that will shape your future career.


At IBM, we prioritize continuous learning, skill development, and personal growth within a culture of coaching and mentorship. As an intern, you'll experience this culture and have the opportunity to advance to our Associate Program based on your results and performance.


Work experiences you could be exposed to:

  • Mentored Analytical Support: Receive mentorship from diverse professionals in science, engineering, and consulting, applying analytical rigor and statistical methods to predict behaviors.
  • Data Integrations: Develop skills in writing efficient and reusable programs to cleanse, integrate, and model data. Evaluate model results and contribute to data-driven insights.
  • Effective Communication: Assist in conveying analytical results to both technical and non-technical audiences, refining your ability to communicate complex findings clearly.
  • Tech-Driven Data Transformation: Utilize programming languages like Python to build data pipelines, extracting and transforming data from repositories to consumers. Gain exposure to cloud platforms, ETL tools, and data integration technologies, expanding your technical toolkit.


Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 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 effectively managing dynamic workloads in an agile environment.
  • Initiative and passion to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills, while embracing a growth mindset and being open to diverse viewpoints
  • Demonstrated leadership experience and the ability to communicate effectively through active listening; also willing to adapt and ready to take ownership of tasks and challenges
  • Familiarity with one or more scripting languages (Python preferred), or a solid foundation in computer science.


Minimum required education:

  • High school diploma and actively pursuing completion of a higher education degree in a relevant field.


Sponsorship:

  • 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 position.


Required work location:

  • These positions, anticipated to start in 2026, will have openings based in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana Client Innovation Center.
  • Must be local to your assigned Client Innovation Center location or willing to relocate prior to your start date at your own expense.
  • Average local IBM site work requirement of at least 3 days per week.
  • Role expectation requires minimal business travel however candidate should be willing to travel up to 100% if needed, based on work assignments.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • 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. 

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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

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.