UX Designer Intern 2027

Introduction

IBM Research is shaping the future of computing by making quantum technology accessible to researchers, developers, and enterprises worldwide. Design plays a critical role in translating highly complex ideas into clear, engaging, and human-centered experiences across our products, platforms, and brand. On the Quantum team, you’ll collaborate with leading scientists, engineers, and visionaries to push boundaries and turn ideas into reality. With a culture built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration, IBM Research offers the opportunity to grow your career while contributing to breakthroughs that transform industries and change the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a user experience design intern for IBM Quantum, you will work at the intersection of science, design, and culture to create experiences for one of the the most innovative technology initiatives at IBM. You will help define and evolve the user experience of IBM Quantum across digital products and experiences. You will partner with team members across disciplines, including those with highly technical backgrounds, in order to deliver products that will help advance the entire quantum computing technology stack and contribute toward making quantum more broadly usable and accessible.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong experience designing user flows, mockups, and interfaces following a user-centered approach
• Experience partnering with design, product, and development stakeholders to translate operational and functional constraints, user research, and user needs into valuable UI enhancements.
• Strong visual design skills, including composition, typography, illustration, and designing for responsive screens.
• Ability to clearly communicate design decisions, intentions, and technical details to advocate for user needs and aid in development execution
• Strong experience with Figma, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop to create mockups, and deliver high-fidelity designs.
• Experience reviewing mockups with end users and stakeholders to validate design direction and feasibility.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience leveraging AI tools for generating prototypes and designs, and improving overall design workflow
• Excellent organization and time management skills, with the ability to work with tight deadlines and on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity working with or contributing to design systems, particularly the Carbon and/or IBM Design languages.
• Experience creating digital illustrations and/or animations
• Experience working on highly complex or technical digital platforms or tools, especially ones with a user base of researchers and/or developers.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

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.

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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, neurodiverge