IBM

AI Foundations - Research Software Engineer

IBM$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required, Master's preferred.
  • Proven experience in software development and delivery.
  • Familiarity with Agile development practices.
  • Experience in designing and testing component-level solutions.
  • Background in debugging and problem-solving for software issues.
  • Knowledge of contributing to CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Design, code, and test innovative software solutions at the component level.
  • Contribute to the CI/CD pipeline for quality assurance and delivery.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to efficiently resolve customer-reported issues.
  • Deliver high-quality software solutions tailored to stakeholder requirements.
  • Work in an Agile environment to understand and prioritize project needs.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical, dental, and mental health support.
  • 401(k) plans, cash balance pension, and employee stock purchase options.
  • Generous paid time off with holiday, vacation, and parental leave.
  • Access to a personalized AI-driven learning platform for career growth.
  • Involvement in diverse resource groups and community volunteer opportunities.
Full Job Description
Your role and responsibilities

As a Software Developer: Generalist, you will design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies. You will work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and contribute to the development of innovative software solutions.

Your primary responsibilities will include:
Develop Component-Level Solutions: Design, code, and test innovative component-level software solutions, ensuring that the implemented solutions are unit tested and ready to be integrated into their product.
Contribute to CI/CD Pipeline: Contribute to the automated CI/CD pipeline that takes code through various quality stages, ensuring seamless integration and delivery.
Debug Customer-Reported Problems: Design, develop, and unit test code fixes for customer-reported problems, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently.
Deliver Offerings: Deliver high-quality offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies, meeting stakeholder requirements and expectations.
Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements, providing input and guidance to ensure successful solution delivery.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise
Software Development Expertise: Experience with designing, developing, testing, and delivering software solutions using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.
Agile Development Methodologies: Experience working in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
Component-Level Design: Experience with designing, coding, and testing innovative component-level software solutions, ensuring unit testing and integration readiness.
CI/CD Pipeline Development: Experience contributing to automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.
Debugging and Problem-Solving: Experience with designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes for complex software problems, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently.

Preferred technical and professional experience
Leading-Edge Technologies: Experience with designing, developing, and delivering software solutions using leading-edge technologies, including back-end and front-end development, and DevOps engineering.
Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile environment, collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Experience contributing to automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software solutions.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

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

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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.

About IBM

Sequent Computer Systems designs and manufactures multiprocessing computer systems based on Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access architecture, which are used primarily as application and database servers for commercial applications. Through a partnership with Oracle Corporation, Sequent became a dominant high-end UNIX platform in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later it introduced a next-generation high-end platform for UNIX and Windows NT based on non-uniform memory access architecture, NUMA-Q. Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in Beaverton, Oregon. In July 1999 Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. was acquired by International Business Machines Corp.

IBM Careers

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