Bioinformatics Scientist Intern

LOCATION: Hybrid(Minimum 2 days/week on-site) in San Carlos, CA

POSITION SUMMARY:

Seeking a Bioinformatics Intern to join the Early Cancer Detection program at Natera, a leading liquid biopsy test company in oncology and women’s health. The mission of this program is to discover, interpret, and validate genetic and epigenetic biomarkers which can be used in early cancer diagnostics and screening. A bioinformatics scientist intern will be involved in all stages of the data science workflow, from forming hypotheses and collating public data to modeling and validating those models on proprietary data. The ideal candidate should be currently pursuing a PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biostatistics, or a related field such as Statistics or Computer Science with familiarity with genomics and expecting to graduate within one or two years.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, implement, and validate algorithms and machine learning approaches to analyze large-scale genomic data sets
• Create coherent reports that effectively communicate the objective and flow of an analysis
• Work with our team of computational scientists to answer specific biological questions
• Collaborate with molecular biologists and clinical scientists to come up with creative research strategies that solve challenging problems in oncology
• Contribute to experimental design and quality control

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Currently pursuing a PhD in statistics, biostatistics, bioinformatics, computer science, computational biology or a related field, ideally within one or two years of expected graduation
• Experience in Python, shell scripting, Unix command-line tools
• Experience in algorithm development, data analysis, and statistical learning
• Exposure to next generation sequencing (NGS) or public databases such as TCGA
• Ability to visualize findings and summarize results in oral and written form

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous experience in healthcare
• Previous exposure to next-generation sequencing analysis
• Familiarity with the main notions in epigenetics
• Facile with a deep learning framework (PyTorch or JAX preferred!)
• Familiar with basic probabilistic modeling

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Duties are typically performed in an office setting. This position requires the ability to use a computer keyboard, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

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