[Hiring] Research Intern - Computational Biology Intern @Zoetis

Role Description

Computational biology intern

Location: Fort Collins, CO (US Remote)

Internship Summary:

• The intern will assess and integrate methods in a workflow for peptide substrate that includes de novo generation, evaluation of biophysical characteristics (charge, hydrophobicity, epitope prediction) as well as ranking and final selection for wet lab generation.

Internship Job Duties:

• Independently install, configure and deploy scientific software
• Parameterize, generate, analyze and report back results
• Fully document work in detail as well as frequently interface to update project strategies and deliverables
• Communicate and present data to our internal team
• Strong remote work, time management and communications skillset are considered critical

Qualifications

• The candidate is pursuing a Bachelors, MS or a PhD degree in Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Computational Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, or equivalent field
• Experience in substrate generation pipeline software such as Boltz/BoltzGen, RFDiffusion, Chroma, AbDesign, BindCraft, ProteinMPNN, or an equivalent computational method is strongly desired but not required
• Experience in a programming language is preferred but not required
• Is comfortable with possibly being remotely managed and reporting results to an internal team

Requirements

• If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $16.00 per hour
• If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $22.00 per hour
• If the selected candidate is a student pursuing a Graduate-level degree: $32.50 per hour
• If the selected candidate is a student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $36.00 per hour
• If a selected candidate were to be located in California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois (Chicago area), Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington (Seattle area):
• Student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $17.00 per hour
• Student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $24.20 per hour
• Student pursuing a Graduate-level degree: $36.40 per hour
• Student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $40.30 per hour

Notice

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