IBT Summer Fellowship Program
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Job Description
About Twist Bioscience:
Twist Bioscience is a company that synthesizes genes from scratch, known as “writing” DNA. They serve customers who are improving the world in fields such as medicine, agriculture, industrial chemicals, and data storage by providing them with synthetic DNA tools. Twist Bioscience’s silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision at a scale that is otherwise unavailable to their customers.
Job Description: Twist IBT Summer Fellowship Program
The Twist IBT Summer Fellowship is a quarter-long summer internship intended for upper-division students from top-tier undergraduate colleges and universities. It offers practical experience and insight into translating innovative academic and industrial research into commercial products within a dynamic biotechnology environment. The internship is located in South San Francisco and requires onsite presence.
Key Aspects of the Fellowship:
• Focused Technical Projects: Summer Fellows will work on a focused technical project, ranging from synthetic biology information technology to optimization algorithms, statistical learning (AI) software, or stepwise biotechnology manufacturing execution systems.
• Project Contribution: Interns will be entrusted with tasks that require specific skills and are crucial to the project.
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Interns will be assigned a project that can be completed during the internship period.
• Work on a project in the areas of data sciences and bioinformatics.
• Perform data analysis and interpretation to support ongoing projects.
• Research: Conducting research on new technologies or industry trends.
• Testing: Assisting with software testing and quality assurance.
• Documentation: Creating and maintaining technical documentation.
• Project support: Providing general support to IT projects
What You’ll Bring To The Team:
• A strong interest in biology and computer science.
• Demonstrated skills (via projects or classes) to perform basic data analysis.
• Great communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• A desire to be in the office every day working with the team at Twist.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Students pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in any of the computer science, physical science, or engineering disciplines.
• Students who are familiar with any of the major programming languages.
• Students about to enter their Junior or Senior year or are just graduating.
