Performance Engineering Intern - Poughkeepsie

The IBM Z Performance and Architecture organization helps design and optimize the technologies behind IBM Z, IBM's flagship enterprise computing platform. IBM Z powers some of the world's most demanding business applications, processing massive volumes of transactions while delivering high levels of reliability, security, and performance.

What makes IBM Z unique is that IBM engineers the entire system stack, including processor architecture, hardware, firmware, operating systems, virtualization technologies, middleware, applications, and performance tooling. This end-to-end ownership allows our teams to solve complex problems across the full computing stack and deliver highly integrated solutions for mission-critical enterprise workloads.

Our work spans computer architecture, operating systems, performance engineering, data analytics, automation, workload analysis, and applied AI.

As an intern, you may work on projects involving:

Analyzing real-world enterprise workloads at scale to understand system behavior and uncover performance opportunities using processor, memory, I/O, operating system, and application-level performance data

Building and using models to evaluate processor and system performance

Developing performance tests, benchmarks, tools, and automation

Supporting computer architecture, performance tracing, modeling, and workload characterization

Exploring AI and Generative AI to improve performance analysis and engineering productivity

Collaborating with architects, hardware designers, software developers, and performance engineers

This role provides an opportunity to apply classroom concepts to real-world enterprise systems and contribute to the development and performance of future IBM Z technologies.