Co-op Research Associate in Software Development and Bioinformatics

Summary: Monte Rosa Therapeutics is seeking a passionate Co-op in Software Development and Bioinformatics to help eliminate disease-causing proteins through targeted protein degradation. The role involves participating in design discussions, assisting with tool development for clinical trial data, and delivering semantic grouping implementations while working in a collaborative environment. Responsibilities: - Participate in design discussions with our Biomarker and Clinical Research teams to translate business usecases into technical requirements and helping to design solutions to meet those requirements - Assist with a new tool under development that extracts and aggregates schedule of events data and other data from over 50,000 registered clinical trials - Develop and evaluate approaches (LLMs, vector embeddings, hybrid methods) to identify and group semantically similar events/biomarkers (e.g., "CBC," "complete blood count," "full blood panel") - Deliver a working semantic grouping implementation and UI/UX designs validated by our Biomarker and Clin Ops teams Required Qualifications: - Participate in design discussions with our Biomarker and Clinical Research teams to translate business usecases into technical requirements and helping to design solutions to meet those requirements - Assist with a new tool under development that extracts and aggregates schedule of events data and other data from over 50,000 registered clinical trials - Develop and evaluate approaches (LLMs, vector embeddings, hybrid methods) to identify and group semantically similar events/biomarkers (e.g., "CBC," "complete blood count," "full blood panel") - Deliver a working semantic grouping implementation and UI/UX designs validated by our Biomarker and Clin Ops teams - Enthusiasm for exploring the intersection of software and data engineering, data science and life sciences to develop innovative applications that accelerate the drug discovery process - Experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go) (Strong bias to Python) - Eagerness to learn and contribute to software development within a team environment - Openness to acquiring new skills in software design and architecture - Familiarity with coding practices and principles, with a willingness to develop skills in writing clean, maintainable and testable code as well as designing effective APIs - Experience or interest in the design and implementation of high-quality scalable and extendable software architectures - Familiarity or a desire to learn cloud computing services (Experience with AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, SQS, SNS, Amplify, AppSync, DynamoDB, Cloudformation etc) Preferred Qualifications: - Our preference is for a student currently in a Master degree program in Data Sciences, Bioinformatics, or Computer Science with an interest in a life science Required Skills: Python, Software development, Data science Important Skills: Cloud computing, Software architecture Nice-to-Have Skills: Learning agility, UI/UX design, Coding practices, Team collaboration