About the role#
This internship offers the chance to work within the Product Development Data Sciences group. You will contribute to clinical drug development across therapeutic areas such as cardiovascular, renal, and metabolism. You will take ownership of business-critical projects and present your findings to senior leadership at the end of the summer.
What you'll do#
- Solve statistical problems related to clinical drug development.
- Analyze real-world clinical data to identify clinical and business insights.
- Develop or refactor code to build reusable R packages for data processing and visualization.
- Create automation solutions for data handling and analytics.
- Improve data flow efficiency from raw to analysis-ready sets.
- Explore new software or programming languages through proof-of-concept work.
- Develop and evaluate models using multimodal data, including clinical data and medical images.
- Implement new machine-learning and deep-learning methods for algorithm development.
- Investigate measurement issues related to Patient-Reported Outcome data.
What you'll need#
- A Bachelor’s degree.
- Current enrollment in a Master’s or PhD program, or completion of a Master’s degree within the last 2 years.
- A major in Statistics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Computational Biology, Biotechnology, Psychometrics, or a related field.
- Experience with R programming, statistical modeling, and data analysis.
- Strong programming skills and familiarity with Git for versioning and collaboration.
- Ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical audiences.
- A problem-solving mindset and a willingness to seek help.
- Interest in drug development within the pharmaceutical biotechnology industry.
- Preferred: Familiarity with clinical trial statistics and experience developing AI agents or agentic workflows.
Location & details#
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time, 12-week program.
- Compensation: This is a paid internship with an hourly rate between $29.00 and $52.00, depending on experience and qualifications.
About Genentech
Genentech is a biotechnology research company founded in 1976. Based in South San Francisco, the firm focuses on areas such as oncology, neuroscience, and immunology. It employs over 18,000 people across multiple locations in California and Oregon. The organization develops medicines for complex health conditions.
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