2024 Bioinformatics Engineer Intern

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

2024 Bioinformatics Engineering Intern Overview

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie Interns.

This internship opportunity is in the Bioinformatics Engineering (BE) team within AbbVie’s Genomics Research Center (GRC), which plays a key role in building automation and standardized processing pipelines to support Next-Gen sequencing projects through preprocessing/QC, standardized bioinformatics processing, and analysis. The data for such projects spans multiple GRC teams, including Genomics Technology, Computational Genomics, and Therapeutic Area focused Bioinformatics groups. Under supervision of a senior member of the BE team, the candidate will develop processes to collect the QC and performance metrics for internally sequenced samples so that we may visualize performance outliers. This data will provide the GRC insights with potential to improve efficiency, processing costs, and quality of our downstream analyses. The candidate will gain a thorough perspective on NGS data generation and processing in a biopharmaceutical industry research setting, and further develop their technical experience through building and applying software tools to data engineering challenges.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with stakeholders from data generation and processing teams to understand the metrics available at each relevant stage.
• Establish a centralized collection point, and necessary processes for gathering the required data.
• Communicate details of the project to key stakeholders throughout the term and present a summary upon conclusion of the program.
• Stretch aims for this internship will involve generating visualizations based on the collected data that may be used to define and identify performance outliers.

Minimum Qualifications  

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing Master's or Ph.D. in Biology, Biomedical Engineering or related field.
• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship.
• Demonstrated experience with Python.
• Proficiency working in Linux environments.
• Self-motivated; ability to execute with limited supervision and direction. Can work independently or part of a team.
• Strong communication skills and ability to effectively present complex information to stakeholders at various levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expected graduation date between December 2024 – July 2025.
• Experience working with Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis and bioinformatics tools.
• Proficiency in R for data analysis and visualization.
• Familiarity with RDMS (Relational Database Management Systems).
• Experience working in HPC environments (on-prem/cloud).
• Familiarity with statistical analysis methods and tools for data interpretation.
• Knowledge of genomics and molecular biology concepts and techniques.

Benefits and Amenities

• Competitive pay
• Relocation support for eligible students
• Opportunity to connect with AbbVie leaders and scientists.
• Practical experience solving data engineering problems in a Fortune 100 biopharmaceutical company.

Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

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