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The Position

2026 Machine Learning Scientist Summer Intern - Biology Research | AI Development

This internship position is located in **South San Francisco, On Site.**

Department Summary

At Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED) we have initiated an exciting journey to bring together and further strengthen our computational talent and capabilities by forming a new, central organization - gRED Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CS CoE). CS CoE is on a mission to partner across the organization to realize the potential of data, technology and computational approaches that will revolutionize how targets and therapeutics are discovered and developed, ultimately enabling novel treatments for patients across the world. We stand at the beginning of this exciting journey.

BRAID (Biology Research | AI Development) is a department within CS CoE that focuses on developing and applying machine learning methods to impact biological discovery, with the ultimate goal of impacting drug discovery and human health. We collaborate with clinical scientists, biologists, and engineers to advance the drug development pipelines across disease areas.

We are searching for a motivated summer intern to work on designing, developing, and interpreting foundation models for biological data. You will join an established team of AI scientists with a common goal of developing our next generation multi-scale foundation models using cutting-edge AI techniques from graph learning and generative modeling. You will develop models and interpretability methods that identify multi-cellular interactions relevant to patient phenotypes that inform trial design, biomarker selection, and target discovery.

This internship position is located in** **South San Francisco, On-Site.

The Opportunity

+ You will lead the development of explainable models and interpretation methods for identifying multivariable features of interest.

+ To benchmark the approach, publicly available datasets with existing supervision can be used for performance evaluation.

+ There will be opportunities to apply the method on novel data collected in the lab, targeting dedicated biological questions.

+ You will produce weekly reports of their progress and compile their findings in a final project report that could be used as a basis for a machine learning conference paper submission.

+ The intern will continuously suggest new experiments and modeling strategies based on previous results.

Program Highlights

+ **Full time 12 weeks (40 hours per week) paid internship.**

+ **Program start dates are in May/June (Summer)**

+ **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.

+ Opportunity to shape the research agenda of the project

Who You Are

Required Education

Must be pursuing a PhD (enrolled student). in CS, Computational Biology, Engineering, Stats, or related field.

Required Majors

Computer Science, Computational Biology, Statistics, Engineering, or relevant technical experience.

Required skills:

+ Experience with large scale deep learning training infrastructure.

+ Experience with model explainability methods (e.g. SHAP, Integrated Gradients).

+ Excellent academic presentation and writing skills

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Qualifications

+ Experience with scRNA-seq and genomics data

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $50.00 per 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. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.

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