Developer Intern 2026 (Lansing, MI)

Your role and responsibilities

During your internship, you will enhance your knowledge and gain professional experience by working on client projects. This role provides an exceptional opportunity to build a compelling portfolio, acquire new skills, gain insights into diverse industries, and embrace novel 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 and have the opportunity to advance to our Associate Program based on your results and performance.

Work experiences you could be exposed to:

• Team Collaboration and Innovation: Join cross-functional teams to understand requirements and define technical specifications for various projects, fostering collaboration and innovation.
• Precision in Documentation: Document technical specifications and design decisions with clarity, ensuring effective communication within the team and with stakeholders.
• Code Excellence: Develop scalable, reusable code and champion code review processes and tools to uphold top-notch code quality.
• Full-Stack Versatility: Engage in full-stack cloud-native development, utilizing design thinking to create products that prioritize user experience, performance, security, quality, and stability. Gain exposure to a diverse tech stack, including databases, operating systems, cloud providers, and modern UI frameworks, contributing to the entire product delivery lifecycle.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Required technical and professional expertise

• Currently pursuing a university degree with a track record of academic success.
• Strong interpersonal skills that enhance collaboration and relationship-building, while effectively managing dynamic workloads in an agile environment.
• Initiative and passion to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills, while embracing a growth mindset and being open to diverse viewpoints.
• Demonstrated leadership experience and the ability to communicate effectively through active listening; also willing to adapt and ready to take ownership of tasks and challenges.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Java, C++, Python, Scala, R, SAS, SQL, HTML, SPSS, VBA, Tableau, etc., as well as systems design/development, hyperscale platforms, and the broader information technology landscape.

Minimum required education:

• High school diploma and actively pursuing the completion of a higher education degree in a relevant field.

Sponsorship:

• IBM will not provide visa sponsorship for this position. Eligible candidates must not require sponsorship now or in the future to be considered.

Required work location:

• These positions, anticipated to start in 2026, will be based at the Lansing, Michigan Client Innovation Center.
• Must be local to your assigned Client Innovation Center location or willing to relocate prior to your start date, at your own expense.
• Average on-site work requirement at the local IBM office is at least 3 days per week.
• While the role typically requires minimal business travel, candidates should be willing to travel up to 100% if needed, based on work assignments.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Knowledge or interest in database development, along with curiosity about a wide range of cloud platforms, web markup languages, deploying applications using container technology, and generative AI.
• Exposure to web services, APIs, and multiple Java application frameworks is highly desired.
• Knowledge or interest in best practices related to design patterns, performance tuning, and automated/unit testing.

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.

Client-provided location(s): East Lansing, MI

Job ID: IBM-66529

Employment Type: INTERN

Posted: 2025-11-08T18:45:14