AI​/ML Bioinformatics Intern; PhD

Job Description

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 Abb Vie interns.

The intern will work with the Neuroscience Bioinformatics team of the Genomics Research Center (GRC)  GRC is a multidisciplinary center of excellence with expertise in genomic technologies and their application, human genetics, genomic medicine, computational analysis, data integration, genome biology, and application of functional genomics.

• Curate and preprocess neuroscience‑relevant perturb‑seq data for LLM model training
• Fine‑tune single‑cell foundation model using perturb‑seq data
• Train and validate classifier to predict gene perturbations from transcriptomic profiles
• Simulate reversal of transcriptomic disease state based on disease‑specific gene expression signatures and pathways
• Consistent collaboration with Neuroscience colleagues to determine transcriptomic disease signatures and prioritize genes for follow‑up experiments

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a PhD in bioinformatics, AI/ML, computational biology or other related field
• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship
• Expected graduation date between December 2026 – July 2027 (2028 PhD)
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or R
• Experience in deep learning/machine learning and Tensor Flow or Py Torch
• Exposure to bioinformatics
• Strong written, verbal and oral communication skills, good self‑organization

• Exposure to RNA‑seq and/or DNA‑seq analysis
• Experience with computational biology
• Exposure to neuroscience projects

• 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.

• Competitive pay
• Relocation support for eligible students
• Connect with Abb Vie leaders and scientists
• Opportunity to apply cutting edge generative AI to medicine

Abb Vie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.