Data Science Intern at Elephas in Madison, WI

Summary

Elephas, a Madison, WI based biotechnology start-up company, is seeking a highly motivated Data Science Intern to join our team. Applicants should be comfortable in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. The successful candidate will be a motivated student pursuing a career as a Data Scientist who will contribute to developing, optimizing, and validating Elephas’ cancer diagnostics platform.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Extract meaningful information from high dimensional multi-modal datasets
• Assist with data analysis, modeling, visualization, interpretation, presentation and quality control of clinical and basic science data
• Develop and implement algorithms or numerical methods to support quantitative analysis of platform measurement modalities
• Validate and test existing analytical code to improve and harden workflows
• Work collaboratively with immunologists, scientists, data and software engineers
• Experience and interest in oncology, immunology, and cancer research

 

Education/Experience/Skills

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field
• Knowledge of machine learning, data science, data mining, statistics, signal processing, image processing, etc.
• Experience programming in Python is preferred
• Strong background in quantitative analysis and statistics
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Practical experience with varied business activities
• Shadowing, mentoring, and training with experienced and accomplished professionals
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible schedule
• Collaborative and supportive work environment

 

We offer our interns competitive compensation and practical industry experience, including shadowing, mentoring, and training with experienced and accomplished professionals.

DISCLAIMER

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.