Discovery IT Co-op (Spring 2026)

Role Summary

Discovery IT Co-op (Spring 2026) at Wave Life Sciences. Join the Discovery IT team to support data-driven operations and the Wave SONAR platform, working across IT, data science, and biology in an agile/waterfall environment. Gain hands-on experience building and supporting informatics solutions for research and other functional groups.

Responsibilities

• Typical responsibilities include providing support functions for program and project management activities focused in the Research organization. The position will report to the Senior Director of Research IT.
• Gain knowledge of the IT Department technologies and procedures.
• Receive guidance, training, and mentoring from senior IT and Project Team members in planning and carrying out activities and assignments.
• Assist team members by performing tasks necessary to support SONAR platform objectives as well as build foundational skills and knowledge.
• Help with moving legacy data (for example images, results in spreadsheets) into modern databases and facilitate the querying of them once identifying good questions via interactions with the business
• Assist with documentation of lab and technology functions.
• Effectively communicate with the customers, manager, mentors, and team members on the status of work. Ask relevant questions and listen attentively with patience as part of communication.
• Utilize the Atlassian toolset to document all aspects of the digital process.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a Life Science or Computer Science program in pursuit of a bachelor’s or masters degree.
• Strong digital background.
• Good to strong knowledge of Python for manipulating files, writing scripts and applications for automations.
• Familiarity with database technologies, and ability to insert to relational systems using Python.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT.
• Working knowledge of technologies such as Knime, Posit, Copilot (and/or other LLM-based AI systems), AI in general preferred.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills. For example, must be able to collaborate with teammates, talk to customers, respond to emails with proper grammar and spelling.
• Must be well-organized and can work in a team environment.
• Ability to manage responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to take direction needed to resolve incidents quickly and effectively.
• Able to complete routine tasks independently over time. This includes gaining the functional, technical, and problem-solving skills needed to complete assignments.