Intern Supervisor: Bioinformatics Engineer III

Department: Bioinformatics

Location: Richmond or Brisbane

Company: Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.

Sangamo Therapeutics is a genomic medicine company building value with cutting-edge work across four distinct but complementary technology platforms – gene therapy, cell therapy, in vivo genome editing, and in vivo genome regulation. Using its deep scientific expertise and proprietary zinc finger genome engineering technology.

We are seeking passionate, curious, and innovative interns to contribute to our mission. Let’s build a better future together.

What Will You Get Out of This Summer Internship?

  • Opportunity to obtain valuable real-world experience in a biotech setting, while gaining specific field-related exposure, and making important professional connections.
  • Discover if a particular career path or field of study in the biotech industry is right for you.
  • Engage in our fun and collaborative company culture while participating in team wide social events.
  • Receive compensation through this paid internship.
  • Consideration for future full-time positions or contract roles.

Scope of Timeline

  • December: Applications open
  • Mid- February: Application close (may still consider application if we have openings left)
  • February through March: Offers made
  • June through August: Internship period

Program Requirements

  • Must be 18 years of age prior to scheduled start date
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
  • Must be able to commit to the full 10-12 weeks’ time frame between June and August.
  • Interns will be expected to work 40 hours a week.
  • Candidates are eligible to apply to the internship within one year of their last degree attained.
  • We do not have a GPA requirement.
  • Applicants must have completed at least one year of accredited university or community college course work to be considered for an internship.
  • We currently do not offer visa sponsorship to interns.

Internship Project Summary

Sangamo Therapeutics is seeking a talented bioinformatician interested in working on real-world problems in curing human diseases. The ideal candidate has skills in programming as well as good background knowledge in molecular biology and genomics.

Essential Functions

  • Evaluate sequencing QC metrics for various standard Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) workflows (RNA-seq, amplicons, WGS, ATAC-seq, etc.)
  • Implement bioinformatics QC methods in a report framework
  • Write custom plugin code for QC framework
  • Establish QC thresholds for rejecting data
  • Write new algorithms and software for detecting aberrant samples / DNA reads
  • Propose integrations into production workflow for metrics

Education, Experience And Skills Requirements

  • Education required: M.Sc.
  • Years of experience required: 0
  • Must have basic competency in Linux command line operation, compilation and configuration of open-source software, and programming in at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

Other Qualifications

  • Familiarity with git and version control systems
  • Experience with Python packaging
  • Experience with workflow engines common in NGS processing (Toil, Airflow, CWL, etc.)
  • Experience with Illumina sequencing data, or other popular sequencing technologies (Pacific Biosciences, Oxford Nanopore)

Any questions, please feel free to contact us here.

Sangamo is an equal opportunity employer

The above reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this position but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. The above duties are representative only; management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time.

 

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