IBM Federal Data Engineer Co-Op 

United States, Virginia, Reston 

845976347

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 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.
• Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): Work alongside experienced practitioners to implement generative AI models and algorithms for various applications such as conversational computing, natural language processing, and audio processing. Work with large datasets to train and evaluate generative models, and optimize their performance using various techniques.
• Data Integrations: Develop skills in writing efficient and reusable programs to cleanse integrate and model data. Evaluate model results contributing to data-driven insights.
• Tech-Driven Data Transformer: Utilize program 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, expanding your tech toolkit.
• Effective Communication: Assist in conveying analytical results to both technical and non-technical audiences, refining your ability to communicate complex findings.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Currently enrolled and pursuing a quantitative degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field with an anticipated graduation date of May 2025 or later.
• 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.
• Ability to work in-office on-site in Reston, VA
• Ability to work up to 20 hours per week
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 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