SW Developer Intern | Enterprise Platform-as--Service - Durham, NC

As an IBM Intern, you’ll gain hands-on experience working on meaningful projects that create value for users around the world. You’ll collaborate with experienced designers and developers to build responsive, user-centered applications using modern technologies, while contributing your own ideas, perspectives, and technical skills. We value individuals who are curious, proactive, and willing to challenge conventional thinking to drive better outcomes.

At IBM, work is more than a job, it's an opportunity to create, innovate, and solve complex problems alongside some of the brightest minds in technology. As part of a collaborative and inclusive community, you’ll help develop solutions that make a real impact for clients and communities worldwide. If you’re ready to learn, grow, and help shape the future of technology, we’d love to hear from you.

As a Developer at IBM, you’ll help build the technologies powering the quantum revolution and the next generation of AI. Join a team of innovators who turn bold ideas into real-world solutions through creativity, curiosity, and continuous learning, delivering impact on some of the industry’s most trusted platforms.

In this role, you’ll work across client-server architectures, networking, application development, and databases to design and deploy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. We’re seeking motivated developers who can create clean, well-documented, and intuitive APIs that enable customers and teams to build with confidence.

You’ll also design and develop scalable server applications, firmware, and databases, while helping build large-scale systems that support continuous delivery across cloud and on-premises environments. Depending on the role, responsibilities may include:

• Participating in Agile development cycles, including design, coding, testing, and support
• Transforming wireframes into intuitive, functional user experiences
• Applying software engineering and testing best practices to deliver high-quality solutions
• Leveraging AI-powered tools to enhance development efficiency and productivity
• Integrating AI capabilities to make our platform solutions easier to deploy, use, and scale

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Minimally, the incumbent will possess:

• Prior (project or internship) experience in software development and/or platform engineering
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Passion for technology and engineering
• Soft skills & behaviors to include a growth mindset, trusted, teamwork, courageous, resourceful and outcome focused
• Working knowledge of servers, applications, devOps tools (Git, Jenkins) and databases

Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in:
Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Materials Science, Systems Engineering, Data Sciences or related majors.

• Cloud development (pushing code through a CD pipeline)
• Generative AI practical application in development environment to include prompt engineering
• One or more of the following technologies: C++, C, Java, Golang, Ruby, Python, Perl, SQL
• Virtualization concepts and cloud operations
• Working knowledge of one or more major Data Bases:
  MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future.

Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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…