Bioinformatics Intern Jobs

ProCogia is a data consulting firm headquartered in Vancouver, BC with employees and clients across the United States and Canada. We specialize in Data Operations, Data Engineering, BI & Analytics, Data Science & Bioinformatics across a broad range of industries including Telecom, Pharma, Biotechnology, Retail, Logistics, Technology, Financial Services, Media & non-profit. We are a technology-agnostic firm giving us a client-first, independent approach towards delivering our Data solutions.
We’re a diverse, close-knit team with a common pursuit of providing top-class, end-to-end data solutions for our clients. In return for your talent and technical expertise, you will be rewarded with a competitive salary, generous benefits along with ample opportunity for personal development. ‘Growth mindset’ is something we seek in all our new hires and has helped drive much of our recent growth across North America. Our distinct approach is to push the limits and value derived from data. Working within ProCogia’s thriving environment will allow you to unleash your full career potential.
ProCogia has experienced considerable growth over the last two years & core to our culture is maintaining a high-level of gender equality throughout the company. Our diversity and differences allow us to create innovative and effective data solutions for our clients.
Our Mission
We enable our customers to make intelligent and agile decisions through strategically tailored data solutions. We attract, develop and retain diverse, motivated and collaborative team players who love what they do.
Our Values
TRUST We build trust in all of our relationships, internally and externally
GROWTH We believe in life-long learning; both personally and professionally
INNOVATION Our technology-agnostic & innovative approach enables cutting-edge data solutions
EXCELLENCE We are committed to delivering excellence in everything we do
ProCogia Overview
At ProCogia we’re passionate about developing data-driven solutions that provide highly informed answers to our clients’ most critical challenges. Our projects are varied, from Data Warehouse builds, deploying Cloud Data Solutions, Dashboarding, & building predictive models.
We work with industry leading clients from various sectors including Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, Technology, Financial Services & Retail. Our work environment ensures opportunities to gain valuable experience in various industries enhancing your personal & career development.
ProCogia has doubled in size over the last two years & core to ProCogia’s culture is ensuring we maintain a balanced gender ratio. Our diversity, and differences allow us to create innovative and effective solutions for our clients.

The Bioinformatics intern will have the following responsibilities and duties:

• Run existing NGS pipelines to analyze and visualize data from a variety of experiments
• Communicate project methodology and results with the team
• Engage with a team of bioinformaticians, data scientists, computational scientists
• Develop interactive tools to visualize multi-omics data/results
• Develop novel bioinformatics tools (in R and/or Python) and integrate them into existing genomics analysis workflows
• Create and maintain R and Python packages

Requirements Skills
Required:

• Proficiency in R and/or Python
• Good understanding of biological concepts, NGS modalities, and associated statistical methods and concepts
• Bioinformatics analytical skills and working with multi-omics data (bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, CITE-seq, ChIP-seq, WGS, WES, CRISPR screens, etc.)
• Familiarity of biomedical datasets
• Excellent communication skills in English including presentation skills

Preferred:

• Familiarity with command line tools and git (please provide GitHub link if available)
• Machine learning knowledge & experience an asset
• Experience developing tools, packages, or pipelines in R/Python for bioinformatics workflows
• Familiarity with common file formats such as fastq, fasta, bam, sam, hdf5, zarr, tiledb
• Good data science practices

Education
Required:

• A recent graduate in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, or related program.

ProCogia is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workspace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.