Intern-Data Engineer

At Seer, we are passionate about empowering our customers to expand scientific discoveries and achieve exceptional scientific outcomes. Our team is growing quickly as we develop innovative approaches to solve complex biological questions. And we believe the next frontier in biology is enabled through a clearer and more complete view of the proteome – something that Seer can uniquely deliver. As we build our team, we are looking for collaborative, driven, intellectually curious people who are committed to solving complex challenges. Our culture rewards accountability and cross functional teamwork, because we believe that this enables the kind of breakthrough thinking that will accelerate our mission.

This role is based on-site in Redwood City (Redwood Shores), California 

The Role  

The Data Engineer Intern will work closely with the Data Engineering team to develop tools to assess and visualize the performance of our proteomics processing pipeline over time. In this project you will have opportunities to learn about cutting-edge proteomics data processing approaches and our cloud pipelines. 

Responsibilities & Goals  

You will research and define key metrics for the performance of those pipelines, and work with data engineers to implement a system that computes, records, and allows visualization of these metrics. This project will provide important insight into our core data stack, so it will conclude with a presentation to the data engineering, data science and bioinformatics teams about your work and any initial insights.  

Technical Skills

• Experience with Python -- experience with Pandas and / or Numpy preferred
• Experience with Git and the pull request workflow
• Familiarity with relational and document databases
• Familiarity with Linux or Docker
• AWS or other cloud platform experience strongly preferred
• Additional skills (not required): data visualization in python (preferably matplotlib / pandas) or Javascript (e.g. D3); statistics and data science; biology or biochemistry

Background & Qualifications  

• Senior Year pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, OR Recent Graduate -  Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, or Biochemistry 
• Interest in data and developing data processes 
• Collaborative work ethic, self-starter and persistent in achieving objectives
• Organized, attention to detail, and proficiency in documentation skills 

We welcome you to apply today!

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