Intern, Discovery Data Science (Project: Machine learning and scalable data processing for antibody engineering)

At Genmab, we are dedicated to building extra[not]ordinary® futures, together, by developing antibody products and groundbreaking, knock-your-socks-off KYSO antibody medicines® that change lives and the future of cancer treatment and serious diseases. We strive to create, champion and maintain a global workplace where individuals’ unique contributions are valued and drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our patients, care partners, families and employees.

Our people are compassionate, candid, and purposeful, and our business is innovative and rooted in science. We believe that being proudly authentic and determined to be our best is essential to fulfilling our purpose. Yes, our work is incredibly serious and impactful, but we have big ambitions, bring a ton of care to pursuing them, and have a lot of fun while doing so.

Does this inspire you and feel like a fit? Then we would love to have you join us!

Role 
 
We are excited to share that Genmab has an open internship position based in the Discovery Data Science department based in Utrecht. The internship will focus on exploring machine learning methods on large scale data for the design and discovery of antibody targets. 
 
You will work in a multidisciplinary, international team of experienced scientists with deep knowledge of antibody development and machine learning, with the goal of bringing new, groundbreaking antibody therapeutics to the clinic. We leverage modern protein characterization assays, advanced data analysis methods, and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to help improve our therapeutics. Dry- and wet-lab researchers collaborate towards defining project questions, discussing methodology, designing experiments, assessing results, modelling data, and validating predictions. Projects involve computational sequence- and, structure-based protein and antibody engineering. 
 
Genmab places a high value on new, transformational data-science approaches to enhance our drug discovery and development efforts. As an intern in the Discovery Data Science department, you will make an impact on the development of ground-breaking new medicines to serve cancer patients with unmet medical needs. In addition, as a fully integrated biotech company, Genmab will give you the chance to experience drug development from discovery to translation into the clinic. 
 
Responsibilities 

• You will conduct exploratory data analysis and statistical analyses.  

• Depending on the needs of the project you will build and train machine-learning models for antibody design and discovery or experiment with methods, parameters, and datasets. 

• You will contribute to shared codebases, writing clear and robust code that is reusable and deployable on a larger scale. 

• You exchange ideas with colleagues and participate in scientific and technical discussions.  

• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills to productively contribute to large, multidisciplinary projects in a multicultural team, all while valuing positive attitude and well-being in the workplace.  

• You can visualize complex results, turning highly technical concepts into intuitive explanations that can be presented to a diverse scientific audience.  
   
   

Requirements 

• You are currently enrolled in a Master's degree (NL universities only) in the field of computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational biology, bioinformatics or related fields. 

• You are prepared to do an internship for a minimum of 6 months. 

• You code proficiently in Python (pytorch/tensorflow as well as pandas, numpy, seaborn, scikit-learn).  

• You have a go