Introduction

IBM Quantum is building the world's leading quantum computing systems, software, and cloud services. The Data Analytics & Engineering Team plays a critical role in enabling data-driven decision making across the IBM Quantum organization by developing scalable data platforms, trusted analytics solutions, and actionable insights. As a Data Scientist Intern, you will work at the intersection of data science, analytics engineering, and data platform development. You will partner with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Client and Community, and Business Operation Teams to help transform data into meaningful insights that drive strategic and operational decisions. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to both the technical foundation of IBM Quantum's analytics ecosystem and the analytical products that support a rapidly growing business.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Data Scientist Intern, you will:

• Support the design, development, and enhancement of IBM Quantum's scalable data and analytics platform.
• Develop data models, dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics solutions that enable informed decision making.
• Apply analytics engineering best practices to improve data reliability, consistency, governance, and accessibility.
• Perform advanced data analyses to identify trends, opportunities, and actionable business insights.
• Collaborate with internal teams such as Product, Engineering, Client Success, Community, Marketing teams to understand business requirements and translate them into analytical solutions.
• Assist in designing and implementing data pipelines and transformations to support reporting and analytical use cases.
• Communicate findings and recommendations through clear visualizations, presentations, and written analyses tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of the team's analytics and data engineering practice

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Experience working with Python (and common data science libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and SQL for data analysis, transformation, and querying large datasets.
• Experience with statistical modeling, forecasting, experimentation, or machine learning techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguous business questions and deliver insights with limited guidance.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with analytics engineering practices and tools such as dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
• Exposure to Airflow, Apache Spark, Presto/Trino, or similar data ecosystem technologies.
• Experience working with large-scale event, product, customer, or operational datasets.
• Knowledge of Git, software development best practices, and CI/CD workflows.
• Prior internship, research, open-source, or project experience involving data science, analytics engineering, or data platform development.
• Interest in quantum computing, emerging technologies, and data-driven product development.

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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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.

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ABOUT IBM

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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.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 15 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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.

Job Title

Quantum Data Scientist Intern - 2027

Date posted

21-Sep-2026

Job ID

132776

City / Township / Village

Yorktown Heights

State / Province

New York

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Onsite

Area of work

Data & Analytics

Employment type

Co-Op (Fixed Term)

Contract type

Internship

Projected Minimum Salary per year

100,800.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

184,800.00

Position type

Internship

Travel required

No Travel

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No