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Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.\nThe Position\n2027 Summer Intern - Computational Science \nWe advance science so that we all have more time with the people we love.\nDepartment Summary\nThe XOOS Algorithm Development team leads secondary analysis algorithm development for Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) data on the AXELIOS platform. We bridge rapid R&D prototyping with production-grade bioinformatics tools, driving multi-omics whole genome and targeted sequencing applications across oncology, genetic disease, and infectious disease.\nThis internship position is fully remote.\nThe Opportunity\nAlgorithm Development.\nBenchmarking. \nSoftware development.\nPresenting results to stakeholders.\nProgram Highlights\n Intensive 12-weeks, full-time (40 hours per week) paid internship.\n Program start dates are in May/June (Summer).\nA stipend, based on location, will be provided to help alleviate costs associated with the internship.\nOwnership of challenging and impactful business-critical projects.\nWork with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.\nWho You Are\nRequired Education:\nMust be pursuing a PhD (enrolled student).\nRequired Majors: Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology.\nRequired Skills\nAdvanced experience developing bioinformatics algorithms for secondary analysis of sequencing data.\nDemonstrated expertise in detecting genetic variation in challenging genomic contexts, including repeat regions, paralogs, pseudogenes, and highly homologous loci.\nStrong understanding of haplotype phasing, read alignment, local or de novo assembly, scaffolding, and pangenome methods.\nExperience developing tools for one or more of the following:Repeat expansion or repeat-genotype analysis, Paralog- or pseudogene-aware variant calling, Long-read or highly accurate sequencing analysis, Haplotype reconstruction and phasing, De novo or targeted assembly, Graph genomes or pangenome analysis.\nStrong programming skills in Python and/or C++, with experience building reproducible, tested software.\nExperience evaluating algorithms with representative datasets and quantitative performance metrics.\nCurrently enrolled in or recently graduated from a degree program in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, statistics, mathematics, genomics, or a related field.\nPreferred Knowledge, Skills, and Qualifications\nDemonstrated record of publications, preprints, or equivalent technical contributions describing novel algorithms or methods for variant detection and genotyping.\nResearch experience focused on difficult-to-map regions of the genome, including repeats, paralogs, pseudogenes, segmental duplications, and other highly homologous loci.\nPublications or documented contributions involving one or more of the following:Repeat-variant detection or genotyping, Haplotype phasing and reconstructionLocal, targeted, or de novo assembly, Scaffolding and contig generation, Pangenome or graph-based analysisLong-read sequencing analysis, Paralog- or pseudogene-aware variant calling. \nAbility to explain algorithmic innovations, validation methodology, limitations, and performance results clearly.\nEvidence of translating research methods into reproducible prototypes or usable bioinformatics tools.\nRelocation benefits are not available for this job posting.\nThe expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $47.00-$52.00 per hour. 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