This program is designed to enable students that come from underrepresented backgrounds in the technology industry. Those who self-identify as Black, Hispanic/Latinx and Native American are especially encouraged to apply.

IBM Accelerate is an unpaid, virtual learning experience that offers high potential undergraduate students the opportunity to become equipped with the knowledge and career readiness they need for future consideration for opportunities within the technology industry.

You will be aligned to one of the six core tracks based on your major, skills and interests. The application will ask you to rank your top two track preferences, so please familiarize yourself with each track prior to applying.

If you are accepted into the program, you are committing to attend the Accelerate sessions for three hours per week: Mondays 7-8 PM ET and Wednesdays 6-8 PM ET between June 6th – August 1st, 2022. Attendance is tracked and required to receive an IBM badge at the end of the program.

Participants who complete the program may be considered for IBM internship opportunities. Please note, IBM does not provide visa sponsorship for internship positions now or in the future. Participation does not imply current employment nor guarantee future employment with IBM.

Please ensure you review the additional information on the Accelerate Program and our Tracks available at www.ibm.com/employment/accelerate/.

About the Tracks:

Client Engineering & Technical Sales

You’re interested in helping companies succeed and grow by providing them with innovative technical solutions backed by IBM’s proven AI, Cloud, and hardware technologies. Our Client Engineering and Technical Sales teams leverage their deep technical knowledge to advise and co-create with clients who are tackling some of the world’s most challenging and important problems.

Preferred/recommended majors:

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Design, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or similar.

Consulting

You’re interested in using your unique lived experience, coupled with continuous learning and application of business, data science, design, or development skills and knowledge to strategize, design, implement and execute solutions to solve complex “global scale” problems with some of the world’s largest organizations.

Preferred/recommended majors:

Computer Science or related majors; Data Science or related majors; Design or related majors; Business or related majors.

Design

You’re interested in gaining valuable experience in the ideation, research, execution, and presentation of design projects, as well as leaning into the ethical duties of designers to think about the unintended consequences of their designs, who might be left out of the process, and how to consider power structures and biases designers bring to what they create as design practitioners.

Preferred/recommended majors:

Design, media, and art-related majors; Adjacent disciplines.

Hardware Development

You’re interested in topics ranging from analog and microprocessor design, digital logic, FPGA, functional verification, performance modeling, and physical layout and routing. Additional topics include: overall system design, system performance targets, and how to create the design automation and simulation tools used by engineers and specialists. You’ll tackle some of the world’s most challenging and important problems related to hardware development: Systems, Storage, AI, Cloud, Quantum, and other hardware and software technologies.

Preferred/recommended majors:

Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or related majors.

Marketing & Communications

You’re interested in broadening your perspective on what it means to be part of a leading tech marketing company and are passionate about delivering meaningful experiences to clients through innovative technical solutions. You’ll learn how Marketing & Comms brings the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Preferred/recommended majors:

Marketing, Communications, Marketing Research, Digital Marketing, Market Strategy, Analytics, Statistics, Advertising, Consumer Behavior, Public Relations, Journalism, or similar.

Software Development

You’re interested in data structures and algorithms, front-end and back-end development, versioning (Git), app security, project management, coding assessment platforms, the development lifecycle (SDLC), and coding logic. Additional topics: JS, React, styling, security, and Cloud-Native Development.

Preferred/recommended majors:

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or similar.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Participants must be currently enrolled in a post-secondary education institute (i.e. college or university) and actively pursuing an undergraduate degree.
• Participants must supply their own computer/laptop with internet access for use throughout the program.
• Participation is open to all majors and areas of study, although participants are encouraged to have an interest in STEM and technology.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• While all undergraduate students are eligible for program participation, our curriculum is developed for current Sophomores that will be rising Juniors next summer. This means you have completed your Sophomore year of college as of June 2022 and will be beginning your Junior year in fall 2022.
• This program is designed to enable students that come from underrepresented backgrounds in the technology industry. Those who self-identify as Black, Hispanic/Latinx and Native American are especially encouraged to apply.

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 50 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.