TL;DR

2026 Summer Intern - Cscoe AI For Drug Discovery (AI Engineering): Developing and maintaining software and infrastructure for drug discovery R&D, focusing on connecting in-silico drug discovery with wet lab evaluations. Focus on data pipelines, translating research ideas into software, and optimizing models and data workflows.

Location: Onsite in South San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY

Salary: $50.00 hour

Company

%hirify_global%, a member of the Roche group and founder of the biotechnology industry, is dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases.

What you will do

Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines (ETL/ELT) to process and integrate large-scale biological and chemical datasets.
Collaborate with engineering and scientific teams to translate research ideas into production-ready software tools and infrastructure.
Optimize existing models and data workflows for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Design and drive meaningful contributions to existing data platform infrastructure.
Participate in code reviews, contribute to documentation, and present project findings to the team.

Requirements

Must be pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's Degree (enrolled student).
Majors: Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Data Science, Statistics, Bioinformatics / Computational Biology.
Strong foundation in machine learning concepts and algorithms.
Proficiency in Python programming (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).

Nice to have

Basic understanding of data engineering principles and data pipelines (e.g., ETL/ELT).
Experience working with large biological or chemical datasets (e.g., genomics, proteomics, small molecules).
Experience with some database querying language (e.g. SQL)

Culture & Benefits

Intensive 12-weeks full-time (40 hours per week) paid internship.
Program start dates are in May 11 or June 1 (Summer).
A stipend, based on location, will be provided to help alleviate costs associated with the internship.
Ownership of challenging and impactful business-critical projects.
Work with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.