Summer 2026 - Research Engineering Internship

Role Summary

This internship places upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in the Research Engineering (RE) group within Informatics and Predictive Sciences (IPS) to learn, grow, and contribute to translational research. The focus is on evaluating, prototyping, and applying generative AI, LLMs, and AI agents to translational research use cases, with opportunities to understand the drug development process and collaborate across disciplines. The internship runs June–August 2026 and involves applying AI technologies in collaboration with Enterprise IT to expand RE capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Apply generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and agentic frameworks to translational research and drug development to solve practical problems.
• Build intelligent tools and systems that enhance data accessibility, streamline exploratory analysis, and facilitate integration and quality across core R&D datasets.
• Project assignments will be tailored to align with the intern's background and interests to maximize impact.

Qualifications

• Required: Rising Junior and above undergraduate or MS or PhD graduate student in Bioinformatics, Computer Science or related field; no work experience required.
• Required: Fluency with Linux-based high-performance computing environments, including Python, Linux shell scripting, R, SSH and Git.
• Required: Strong programming background in Python.
• Preferred: Knowledge of and experience applying generative AI and LLM technologies to practical problems; e.g. development of AI-powered chatbots.
• Preferred: Familiarity with AI agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, AgentCore, AWS Bedrock Agents) and MCP servers.
• Preferred: Web development experience and experience working with AWS technologies such as EC2, Beanstalk, S3, and Bedrock.
• Required: Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, and rigorous and creative thinking.
• Required: Excellent written and oral communication skills, including an ability to explain complex ideas to computational scientists, experimentalists, and clinicians.
• Required: The ability to collaborate with diverse groups across the organization and solve problems that will benefit downstream analysts and decision-making teams.
• Required: All candidates must be authorized to work in the US both at the time of hire and for the duration of their employment. Immigration or visa sponsorship is not available for this position.