800 new jobs from tech giant to benefit Waterford  – News – Waterford News & Star

Technology giant IBM Ireland today announced a new investment that will create up to 800 high-tech jobs across Waterford, Cork and Dublin, helping build advanced software underpinned by the latest artificial intelligence technologies to advance security, automation and hybrid cloud. 

The AI technology will include foundational and large language models that are key for generative AI. 

The investment will create hundreds of roles in research and development, as well as digital sales and consulting; and see Ireland continue to be among IBM’s strategic locations globally. The roles will be created across IBM sites in Dublin, Cork and at IBM’s subsidiary, Red Hat, located in Waterford.

The Waterford News & Star requested a breakdown of how the newly-established 800 roles will be distributed across the three counties. 

“We can’t give an exact breakdown at the moment, the numbers for each location will depend on local skills and requirements from IBM and Red Hat,” said a spokesperson. 

“We can say we expect a substantial number of the roles will be coming to Waterford, which we hope will have a significant impact in the region over the coming years,” they added. 

The new staff will join IBM’s and Red Hat’s vibrant and diverse workforce, and help enhance Ireland’s rich and highly skilled technology talent pool that supports employment in knowledge-intensive and high-technology sectors. As the EU leader for the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates per capita, Ireland has a talent pipeline fuelled by skilled young people, while educators collaborate with industry to provide the skills needed in the future.

IBM has been in Ireland for more than 65 years and Ireland is also host to IBM research-only facility in the EU.

The three-year investment is supported by the Government of Ireland through IDA Ireland.