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Your Role and Responsibilities

We have internship positions available in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Group at IBM Thomas J. Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY and IBM Research, Cambridge, MA. The successful candidate should have experience and credentials in computational biology, healthcare, or technologies contributing to the Internet-of-Things, and have both research and software engineering skills. Areas of interest include computational genomics, biomolecular modeling, bionanotechnology, molecular biology, functional genomics and system biology, cancer genomics, drug discovery, nanotechnology, microfluidics, signal processing, computational neuroscience, machine learning, healthcare analytics, real world evidence, translational informatics, health behavior, decision support, natural language processing, electro-chemistry, micro-systems technology, integrated sensors, wireless communications, non-invasive / invasive health monitoring and wearable computing. The position requires daily interactions with group team members and potentially also with external collaborators, so good oral and written communication skills are required. Candidates with research experience are preferred.

About Business Unit

With more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents, IBM Research brings together hundreds of researchers who possess unparalleled industry expertise to address some of the world's most challenging problems. Join us as we do pioneering work in areas such as cognitive computing, augmented intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain, to name a few.

Your Life @ IBM

What matters to you when you're looking for your next career challenge? Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities - where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust - where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible. Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience and credentials in computational biology, computational healthcare, or technologies contributing to the Internet-of-Things
• Able to alternate independent work with team interactions.
• Curious. Interested in the details of the healthcare or life science challenge/opportunity and also technical details of the solution.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Previous research experience

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