2026 AI/ML Bioinformatics Intern (PhD)

Role Summary

2026 AI/ML Bioinformatics Intern (PhD) — an internship opportunity to work with the Neuroscience Bioinformatics team in AbbVie's Genomics Research Center, focusing on applying AI/ML to perturb-seq data and transcriptomic analysis in neuroscience.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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