Internship/Praktikum: Adaptive UI Prototype (m/f/d)

Job Description

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

We are a passionate team of Software Engineers, located in the IBM Germany Research and Development Lab and developing market leading data protection solutions. In times of ever increasing cyber threats, cyber resiliency solutions like our modern Spectrum Protect data protection product is of utmost importance for clients. Many clients are moving to hybrid-cloud platforms and new, containerized workloads. One of the first question clients are asking, when implementing solutions on the next generation computing architecture, reads as follows 'How can i protect my business apps, my persistent business data and bring everything back to life in case of a cyberattack. Some of IBMs masterminds in the area of data protection for container ecosystems (RedHat Open Shift), data protection of SAP ERP solutions, data protection for databases of all kind (Db2, Oracle, MongoDB...) and h/w based snapshots, are members of this team. This is a wonderful business environment to grow your skills and to make the next steps on our journey as a young Software Engineer.

Here comes a description of your challenge. In the Cognitive Hackathon last year our team made a winning suggestion with the idea to make the Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) user interface adaptive to the user's work routine. Leverage supervised machine learning we want to make predictions about the user‘s next action in the UI. All user actions are tracked in an activity log that is used as training data for the machine learning model. By presenting the prediction results as quick links in the UI, the user has the feeling that the GUI is adapting to his usual work routines and supports him in getting the results quicker. There is a working prototype implemented in a Python Jupyter Notebook in IBM Watson Studio that can be used as base for a real live implementation.

The task for this practical term / bachelor thesis is to take the next step and integrate the prototype into Spectrum Protect Plus. We need to keep track of the user's actions actions in SPP by logging all Rest API calls in a machine learning friendly format. Then make use of a supervised machine learning engine to predict the possible next action. Based on the user's choice the machine learning model is trained with the new data. Over time we learn the user's work routines and can make even better predictions.

Skills that can be gained within the project include Python, Supervised Machine Learning. Watson Data Studio., Rest API, Data Protection Solutions and Angular. Interested to join our team for a challenging internship? Feel free to contact us.

Must have skills:

German language skills would be helpful
- if no German - good English language skills are mandatory
- basic programming skills preferable in Python
- basic understanding of machine learning principles

Nice to have skills:

Advanced Python programming
- Angular programming of Graphical User Interfaces
- Usage of machine learning Python libraries e.g. scikit-learn
- Jupyter Notebooks
Interested? Please get in contact with us and include in your response all relevant documents (preferably all in one single pdf file):
1) Cover Letter incl. your availability (earliest start and latest end date)
2) CV incl. your level of German
3) university enrollment document to prove that you are still studying
4) current transcript of records and other relevant certificates / references
5.1) Non-EU citizen studying in Germany: copy of passport, residence and work permit
5.2) Non-EU citizen studying elsewhere: prove of identity incl. place of birth
Thank you !
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