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Job date: 2018-04-28
End Date: 2018-06-27
Company : Thermo Fisher Scientific Country : United States Role : Student
Job date: 2018-04-28
End Date: 2018-06-27
Company : Thermo Fisher Scientific Country : United States Role : Student
Job Description:
Summary of Internship: The Bioinformatics Internship position provides an opportunity for biological sciences and engineering students who are currently pursuing a computer science, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree to get hands on experience working with bioinformatics scientists in a fast-paced environment. The bioinformatics intern will contribute to development projects involving the application of next-generation sequencing to current challenges in immuno-oncology research. Essential Functions:
Additional Info:
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of $20 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of $20 billion, we have approximately 65,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 65,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Apply today! Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
Summary of Internship: The Bioinformatics Internship position provides an opportunity for biological sciences and engineering students who are currently pursuing a computer science, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree to get hands on experience working with bioinformatics scientists in a fast-paced environment. The bioinformatics intern will contribute to development projects involving the application of next-generation sequencing to current challenges in immuno-oncology research. Essential Functions:
- The bioinformatics software intern is responsible for providing software engineering support related to the development of next-generation sequencing based assays for immuno-oncology research applications.
- Support a variety of software engineering activities and may be assigned to a variety of engineering tasks throughout the department
- Be involved with many aspects of software quality assurance and some software design and analysis tasks
- Provide feedback on specifications and designs
- Learn about software engineering and instrumentation through daily activities.
- Accept candid feedback and look for areas of improvements
- Specific tasks will be tailored to the software interns experience level and abilities
- A software intern works under the close supervision of engineers, project managers, and software engineering managers
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a cross-functional team
- Strong willingness to learn, be mentored, and improve
- Desire to contribute and improve design of new and existing scientific instrumentation products
- Strong customer focus
- Desire to teach other molecular biologists and engineers about technology in area of expertise
- Knowledge of least one software development tool set such as Java, C#; Python and R preferred.
- Aptitude for writing software programs
- Student currently enrolled in classes leading to an undergraduate degree (e.g. Bachelor’s) in a software or computer related engineering discipline, or a biological sciences discipline which includes computer science training.
- Computer science or computer engineering, or like engineering field
- Molecular biology, immunology, or greater science knowledge preferred
Skills :
- immunology
- molecular biology
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in Python
- Programming in C#
- Programming in Java
- Programming in R
- Software Design
Areas :
Additional Info:
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of $20 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of $20 billion, we have approximately 65,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 65,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Apply today! Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]