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Introduction

We are on the forefront of groundbreaking change - improving businesses, society, and the human condition. As a leader in Hybrid Cloud and AI, we are leading the charge in a world-wide digital transformation. Our Marketing, Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility (MCC) team tells this story and is responsible for positioning IBM in the market. We define and optimize IBM's brand, capture the market's attention, and articulate our point of view for clients, partners, the media, and even other IBMers. As part of our team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen collaborators - always willing to help and be helped - as you apply passion to work that will compel our audience to choose IBM's products and services. When you join IBM, you join a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust. You join a team of IBMer,s who are helping technology support a positive global transformation. So, join us and experience a place where you can co-create your learning and opportunities. A place where teamwork and unique ideas are treasured. A place where you can bring innovation to life.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As the Academic Technical Lab Enablement Lead, you will play a crucial role in helping IBM and university stakeholders (faculty, students, and broader learner ecosystems) succeed in helping prepare students for a successful career leveraging technology. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and Develop Labs: Create innovative hands-on-labs and learning experiences focused on AI technologies and supporting products to drive adoption and engagement at universities.

• Deliver Training: Conduct train-the-trainer sessions to enable the faculty. Provide ongoing support through office hours.

• Curriculum Integration: Assist universities in incorporating IBM's content into their curriculum, ensuring alignment with academic goals and standards.

• Documentation and Best Practices: Capture and document best practices for AI and Data technologies, creating articles, tutorials, hands-on workshops, and demos.

• Engagement and Advocacy: Engage with university stakeholders and non-profit partners, fostering relationships and promoting IBM technologies.

• Project Leadership: Lead projects involving multiple technical teams and external stakeholders across geographies, ensuring successful development, implementation and deployment of labs within the IBM curriculum.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience: 5+ years developing hands-on exercises and technical curriculum related to data engineering, machine learning, and AI technologies.

• Programming Proficiency: Expertise in programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++, and experience with AI frameworks and libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.

• Generative AI: Knowledge of generative AI using LLMs, whether proprietary or open source.

• Cloud: Proficiency working with Docker containers and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Experience working with a major cloud provider like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or IBM Cloud.

• Educational Technologies: Strong expertise in educational technologies and instructional design methodologies.

• Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Training Delivery: Proven experience in delivering engaging training classes and office hours.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of experience in Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark)

• Expertise with libraries such as transformers and Lang chain.

• Experience with deep learning models using Kera's.

• Deep Understanding of Statistical Machine Learning Models with Python or R

• Experience with Watson Studio and IBM AI API

• Understanding of data science open-source technologies including Python, Jupiter notebooks, TensorFlow, and Spark

• Big Data Certifications on Cloudera/Hortonworks/AWS/GCP/Azure

• Experience with AI Fairness 360 toolkit and/or Watson Open Scale

• Experience with IBM software solutions across multi-cloud platforms Pak for Data

• Experience in Data and AI offerings on public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google etc.)

• Experience with Databases and Data engineering.

• Experience working with faculty and/or researchers in academia.

• Experience developing engaging hands-on exercises and demos to engage students and developers

About Business UnitIBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world's most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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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.

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About IBMIBM'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.

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