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Machine Learning Intern, Computational Chemistry

Organisation Name: Flagship Pioneering, Inc.
Organisation Type:
City: Somerville
State: MA
Country: United States

Job Description:

What if you could join a rapidly growing company and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through looking at and treating disease in a revolutionary way?

What this position is all about:

Are you a highly motivated and organized computational biologist who is enthusiastic about developing, learning, and applying your computational skills to understand complex biological systems and disease?

You will get the opportunity to work in an innovative computational team of machine learning scientists and computational biologists, developing a general platform that uncovers and targets the causes of disease at the level of cellular behavior. 

If you are eager to grow as a multi-lingual scientist, whilst pioneering the data, models, and process for cellular-resolution drug discovery, then we are eager to hear from you. 

What you would be responsible for:

  • You develop and apply computational biology and machine learning tools to generate insights and hypotheses from high-dimensional molecular datasets
  • Integrate clean implementations into the platform and iterate based on feedback from their application.
  • Present your work to computational colleagues, as well as to interdisciplinary teams of biologists and technologists at company meetings.

What experiences will you need:

  • Bachelor’s degree in biology, computational biology, or related scientific field.
  • Demonstrated scientific understanding of molecular and systems biology, and analysis tools.
  • Practical programming and scripting skills, preferably in Python.
  • Fast learner, analytical thinker, creative, "hands-on", strong communication skills.
  • Able to work both independently and as part of a team.

What sets you apart:

  • Experience with code development and package building.
  • Solid foundations in applied math and machine learning.
  • Experience driving an impactful and relevant project within academia or industry.
  • Experience in processing and analyzing single-cell data.

What it is like to work at Cellarity:
At Cellarity, we

  • Push Boundaries: We create a legacy with breakthrough science in service of patients.
  • Inject Energy: We build strengths from different perspectives and tell it like it is.
  • Own it: We transcend our job descriptions and relentlessly follow through on our commitments.
  • Go all out: We work quickly and with conviction.

Posting Date: Feb 21, 2023
Closing Date:
Organisation Website/Careers Page: https://boards.greenhouse.io/flagshippioneeringinc/jobs/6537447002?gh_jid=6537447002


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