2025 Summer Intern – Cell and Tissue Genomics

2025 Summer Intern – Cell and Tissue Genomics

The Opportunity

Ana Meireles and Katie Geiger-Schuller at Genentech Research and Early Development (Cellular and Tissue Genomics Department) are looking for an exceptional intern to lead cutting edge technology development of high-throughput genomics screening (dataset generation).

This internship position is located in South San Francisco, on site.

Responsibilities

• Conduct semi-independent research under joint mentorship.
• Develop scalable genomics or multimodal screening technologies useful for foundation modeling
• Collaborate with colleagues in Genentech Computational Sciences (gCS) on the design and analysis of perturbation studies
• Contribute data that will ultimately result in publication of a high-quality paper reporting on technical and biological advances resulting from this work.

Program Highlights

• Intensive 12-weeks, full-time (40 hours per week) paid internship.
• Program start dates are in May
• A stipend, based on location, will be provided to help alleviate costs associated with the internship.
• Ownership of challenging and impactful business-critical projects.
• Work with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.

Who You Are

Required Education

You meet one of the following criteria:

• Must be pursuing or have attained an Associate’s Degree OR
• Must be pursuing a Bachelor’s degree OR
• Must have attained a Bachelor’s degree (recent graduates not currently enrolled in a grad program) OR
• Must be pursuing a PhD

Required Majors

Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Bio-engineering, Biochemistry or related fields.

Required Skills

• Basic tissue culture experience, Tissue culture, molecular biology.
• Generation of genomics libraries (scRNA, RNAseq, ATAC-seq, etc) or demonstration of molecular biology proficiency in PCR and/or molecular cloning techniques.
• Expertise implementing ML methods using appropriate technologies (e.g, pytorch, JAX)
• Ability to effectively communicate about complex problems to peers.
• Independent, highly motivated, and highly collaborative with the interest to engage together with multi-disciplinary teams of computational scientists and biologists.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Qualifications

• 2025 GEM Fellow candidates are highly preferred.
• Experience with or an interest to learn imaging/ immunofluorescence and/or laboratory automation are encouraged

• You are enthusiastic about working in a scientific environment, especially one that is related to drug discovery and development.
• You are a quick learner, are curious about new areas and the opportunity to build expertise, and courageously and creatively take initiative to see your ideas implemented.

• You are able to perform at a high level in a fast changing and demanding environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Complements our culture and the standards that guide our daily behavior & decisions: Integrity, Courage, and Passion.)

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $23.00-$45.00 hour. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position also qualifies for paid holiday time off benefits.

Genentech is an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace the increasingly diverse world around us. Genentech prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status and veteran status.

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