About the role#
The Statistical Innovation & Data Analytics team is advancing AI-enabled statistical and clinical data solutions to improve operational efficiency and clinical development programs. This co-op role offers hands-on experience at the intersection of statistics, clinical data science, and AI engineering. You will work on projects ranging from AI-assisted statistical programming to the development of agentic workflows. This position is ideal for students interested in tailoring, evaluating, and operationalizing AI for clinical research.
What you'll do#
- Develop and evaluate AI/ML and agentic solutions for clinical data analysis, statistical programming, and workflow automation.
- Explore LLM post-training, adaptation, and evaluation approaches to improve model performance.
- Design agentic workflows with human oversight, traceability, and reproducibility.
- Build scalable and modular AI pipelines that integrate clinical, statistical, and translational datasets.
- Develop interactive data visualizations, dashboards, and analytical applications.
- Collaborate with statisticians, statistical programmers, data scientists, and scientists to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Automate and augment the clinical data lifecycle, including data processing, analysis, QC, interpretation, and reporting.
- Contribute to documentation, validation considerations, and reusable AI capabilities.
What you'll need#
- Current master, doctoral, or advanced undergraduate student in statistics, biostatistics, computational biology, health informatics, data science, or computer science.
- Excellent statistical knowledge and quantitative skills.
- Coding experience in Python (required) and R (preferred).
- Demonstrated ability in cloud computing platforms, containerization, backend development, and SQL.
- Experience or interest in GenAI/LLMs, machine learning, agentic systems, or model post-training.
- Ability to translate emerging AI technologies into practical solutions.
- Strong analytical thinking, engineering mindset, and communication skills.
Location & details#
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Term: Winter 2027 or Summer 2027.
- Work Modality: Hybrid (70% in-office).
- Employment: Full-time, paid co-op.
About Moderna
Moderna operates in the biotechnology research sector. Founded in 2010, the company focuses on the development of mRNA therapeutics and vaccines. It maintains headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The organization employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people and functions as a public company.
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