Technical Specialist Intern 2026 (Baton Rouge, LA)

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to advance the hybrid cloud and AI journey for some of the world's most innovative and valuable companies. Your ability to accelerate impact and drive meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio - including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge form the foundation of success in IBM Consulting. You'll be encouraged to challenge the status quo, explore ideas beyond your role, and develop creative solutions that deliver groundbreaking impact for a broad network of clients.

Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities, in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

During your internship, you'll have the opportunity to expand your knowledge and gain hands-on professional experience by working on client projects. This role offers an exceptional chance to build a compelling portfolio, develop new skills, gain insights into diverse industries, and embrace meaningful challenges that will shape your future career.

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 firsthand and may have the opportunity to advance to our Associate Program based on your performance and results.

Potential work experiences include :

• Programming Landscape : Assist in identifying, analyzing, and documenting program operational characteristics, gaining valuable insights into coding and cybersecurity.
• End-to-End Application Lifecycle Experience : Observe key stages of application implementation - from requirements definition to design, development, testing, and data migration - enriching your understanding of the full lifecycle.
• System Management : Contribute to essential activities such as system configurations and management tools, including backup and recovery processes, while enhancing your skills and supporting system integrity.
• Diverse Exposure : Engage in hands-on experiences with cloud platforms and foundational concepts in data science and AI ethics. Participate in the development and execution of test groups, including automation and test cases, and present your findings for a well-rounded internship experience.

Required education

High School Diploma / GED

Required technical and professional expertise

Preferred technical and professional experience

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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 we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

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.