Cloud Infrastructure Intern

Who We Are:

At Neurocrine Biosciences, we pride ourselves on having a strong, inclusive, and positive culture based on our shared purpose and values. We know what it takes to be great, and we are as passionate about our people as we are about our purpose - to relieve suffering for people with great needs.

What We Do:

Neurocrine Biosciences is a leading neuroscience-focused, biopharmaceutical company with a simple purpose: to relieve suffering for people with great needs. We are dedicated to discovering and developing life-changing treatments for patients with under-addressed neurological, neuroendocrine and neuropsychiatric disorders. The company's diverse portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for tardive dyskinesia, chorea associated with Huntington's disease, classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia, endometriosis* and uterine fibroids,* as well as a robust pipeline including multiple compounds in mid- to late-phase clinical development across our core therapeutic areas. For three decades, we have applied our unique insight into neuroscience and the interconnections between brain and body systems to treat complex conditions. We relentlessly pursue medicines to ease the burden of debilitating diseases and disorders because you deserve brave science. For more information, visit neurocrine.com, and follow the company on LinkedIn, X and Facebook. (*in collaboration with AbbVie)

About the Role:Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: NBIX) is offering the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in Cloud Infrastructure within the world of biotechnology. Our intern program offers exposure to cloud engineering, system operations and Infrastructure-as-code automations across multi-cloud hybrid environment. This position will work closely in IT with experienced engineers to support operational reliability, streamlining deployment workflows, and contribute to emerging ML/HPC initiatives. Intern will gain exposure to real-world engineering challenges such as scalability, cost optimization, environment consistency, and systems performance.
This position offers a unique chance to apply computer science fundamentals to impactful biotechnology use cases while learning industry-ready IT infrastructure skills.

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Your Contributions (include, but are not limited to):

• Support cloud configuration and security reviews, ensuring environments align with internal best practices for identity management, tagging, and resource governance
• Help refine Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates or configuration files to improve consistency across environments
• Identify opportunities to implement containerize and/or serverless workflow
• Create or enhance cloud health-check to identify performance improvement and cost usage dashboards to visualize consumption trends to identify optimization opportunities
• Assist in maintaining and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, including reviewing failed pipeline runs and proposing incremental improvements
• Assist in setting up or validating compute environments used for ML/HPC training
• Interacting with multiple areas within the company
• Collaborating with a mentor team of cross-functional team members as well as the other interns in the class
• Completing a special project and presenting the recommendations to senior management upon completion

Requirements:

• Pursuing or completed an undergraduate degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry would be an asset but is not required
• Experience programming in any object-oriented language is a plus
• Experience and/or cloud practitioner cert with cloud provider like AWS, Azure is desirable
• Experience with Linux/UNIX platform is a plus
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to think creatively and be a team player
• Offer flexibility with a willingness to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Interest in attending various program events, including social gatherings, career development workshops, and more
• Ability to commit to a 10-week, full-time summer program

​Neurocrine Biosciences is an EEO/Disability/Vets employer.

We are committed to building a workplace of belonging, respect, and empowerment, and we recognize there are a variety of ways to meet our requirements. We are looking for the best candidate for the job and encourage you to apply even if your experience or qualifications don’t line up to exactly what we have outlined in the job description.