Research Science Intern | Research Scientist

• IBM Research Africa is looking for a Ph.D-level intern to join their teams which are exploring foundational models in the field of climate & sustainability and investigating foundational models & anomalous pattern detection techniques. Foundational models are flexible, re-useable models that can be applied to many downstream tasks. These models are set to replace the task-specific models that have been in place for the past decade.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Currently enrolled in a Ph.D program from an accredited university in quantitative fields such as Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, Information Systems
• Demonstrable interest in geospatial and weather data and related machine learning methodologies
• 4 years coding experience with scientific Python stack (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, pytorch, etc.)
• Availability to relocate to Nairobi, Kenya for the duration of the internship