Your work will change lives. Including your own.
As our Biostatistics intern, you will have access to our clinical trial data and be assigned to innovative projects within Clinical Development. You will have the independence to delve into problems that you’ll find interesting in addition to assigned projects.
The Role
As part of your internship, you will partner with a diverse team of clinical scientists, statistical scientists, programmers, data managers, and software engineers. You will be tasked with engaging projects related to automating statistical workflows related to study design, clinical trial reporting, and statistical analysis plan. We encourage you to bring innovative solutions to the challenges you encounter. You will receive close guidance from your intern mentor and the rest of the Biometrics team at Recursion.
Location:
For the duration of your internship, you’ll be based in Toronto, Canada.
Requirements
- Currently a MSc or PhD student in Statistics, Biostatistics, or Epidemiology
- Strong proficiency in programming, preferably in R/R Shiny or Python
- Experience in the implementation of modern statistical designs
- Experience in working with clinical trial data
- Ability to brainstorm and coordinate with cross-functional teams
- Strong understanding of statistics, probability, and machine learning
- Comfort answering open-ended questions and a keen interest in the company's mission
- Familiarity with biology or life science is advantageous, but not mandatory
- Anticipated graduation from your degree program should occur after the completion of your internship.
The Projects You’ll Work on
- Contribute to innovative statistical design for our advanced candidates
- Automate statistical workflows for study design (specifically as it relates to phase 1/phase 2 trials)
- Development of R shiny modules for predicting enrollment utilizing ML algorithms and/or Bayesian Hierarchical modeling
- Contribute to the calculation of probability of success utilizing historical and internal data for the clinical portfolio
How you will be supported
- 3 months of full-time, paid internship
- Ongoing mentoring and training from our Biometrics team
- Paid housing in Salt Lake City for candidates that would require relocation for the term of their internship
- Free chef prepared meals at Headquarters every day of the week
- (for summer interns) intern cohort benefits such as
- Lunch Around Recursion: an program that introduces interns to functional groups outside the Technology Organization
- Planned social activities
- An end-of-internship poster presentation open to the entire company
The Values That We Hope You Share:
- We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
- We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
- We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover.
- Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
- We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.
Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.
More About Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.
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What We Do
We are a clinical-stage biotechnology company decoding biology by integrating technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, data science and engineering to industrialize drug discovery. We are leveraging new technology to create virtuous cycles of learning around datasets to build the next-generation biopharmaceutical company. It’s complex biology, decoded. While we are united in a common mission, Decoding Biology to Radically Improve Lives, our greatest strength lies in our differences: expertise, gender, race, disciplines, experience, and perspectives. Deliberately building and cultivating this culture is critical to achieving our audacious goals. We are proudly headquartered in Salt Lake City.
Why Work With Us
We are the leading AI/ML-driven drug discovery company, running +1.5 million experiments every week as we develop a map of human biology. This approach has created one of the largest, broadest and deepest pipelines of any technology-enabled drug discovery company.
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