Internship: Deep learning on biological sequences, Belgium – 2024 Full-time

Help us get ahead of disease together with our Internship Programme

Education required: You are regularly enrolled in a Bachelor/Master in: Computer Sciences, Machine learning, Data Science, Life Sciences, or similar field in an educational establishment located in Europe.

Language requirement: You are fluent in English, French is optional

Expected start date: Between now and September 2024

Duration: Minimum 3 months in full time

Work arrangements: Hybrid (2 or 3 days/week on site)

Requisite: The internship must be mandatory & done in the framework of the curriculum, for which an agreement must be signed between GSK, the student and the Educational Establishment.

Remuneration: according to Belgian legal requirements, the internship will not be paid. However, some expenses will be reimbursed.
Application deadline: We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can to be considered.

Looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the health of billions of people? Apply for the internship programme at GSK today!

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact! You’ll take on challenging, serious work on live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from us, develop your skills and gain valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

What will you do? Where does the role fit?

• You will work within an international vaccines AI/ML team
• You will work on an independent research project with support provided by your supervisor
• You will be involved in building, optimizing, and validating state-of-the-art nuclide acid sequence models
• You will use deep learning frameworks such as pytorch
• You will work with large biological datasets
• You will have a chance to present your results internally to a group of data scientists and bioinformaticians

What are we looking for?

• A lively interest in R&D and biopharma industry
• Willingness to learn and curiosity for out-of-the-box solutions
• Appetite to work and to implement the innovative machine learning approaches
• Proficient with programming languages: Python
• Analytical and logical thinking with good organization skill
• Open and proactive personality to work within an international team and a global company

Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic knowledge about DNA, RNA, and proteins
• Experience with a deep learning framework like PyTorch or Tensorflow
• Experience with good coding practices, such as how to use git
• Experience with transformer-based models

Let’s do this!

You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website – Learn more about the application process | GSK

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Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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