Easter Seals Jobs

Introduction

The deep, intuitive connection between walking and thinking was written about by Virginia Woolf in her diaries over a century ago. More recently, it has been documented in Science and elsewhere as the Deliberation-Without-Attention Effect.

This connection between the mind and the body is the basis for a new project: a walking path at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. This lab is the world's largest commercial research institution and is situated on 300 beautiful but underused acres In Yorktown Heights, NY.

Your Role and Responsibilities

This is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May - August or June - September for quarter system schools.

The designer will research and design a one to two mile-path - a walking space where the building's residents can rejuvenate cognitive resources and stimulate creativity. The designer will be responsible for all aspects of the path design, to be documented from the initial brief to concept and detailed design documents.

The designer will work in the Research Design department. They are empathic with the research community and will endeavor to capture the practical, creative, and emotional goals of an outdoor stroll during the workday.

The designer will then translate these and other requirements into hypotheses - and explore these with a broad spectrum of the community, including architects, ornithologists, and quantum and AI scientists.

The design should consider all aspects of the experience from leaving the building to materiality, sound, vegetation, seasons, birds, possible signage and/or maps. The design will be beautiful and practical but above all, it will serve the community for many years.

• Environment: Acquires knowledge of the IBM Research mission and vision, the scientific method, and how creativity manifests itself in scientists.

• Communication/Negotiation: Engaged as an independent professional. Ability to communicate with visuals and with words. Able to compare alternative approaches.

• Problem Solving: Recognize and communicate problems related to project objectives. Exercise creativity, judgment, and collaborative skills to solve them.

• Contribution/Leadership: Leads this special project. Generally controls own work priorities and methods requiring tradeoffs.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies

• Strong interest in how people interact with the natural environment

• Great communicator with images and words

• Empathetic

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Interest in natural habitats

• Interest in creativity and how it works

About Business UnitIBM 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 @ IBMIn 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 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.

Location StatementSupplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law. 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. This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role. IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.