Junior Ngs Scientist

Complete an internship project at SOPHiA GENETICS whose mission is to drive forward the future of liquid biopsy testing by joining the **Data Science team** as a **Junior NGS Scientist (Intern).**

**Your mission**:
Contributing to liquid biopsy product development and collaborative research projects, you will work alongside with technical product managers, NGS scientists and data analysts to expand the power of the SOPHiA GENETICS liquid biopsy assay portfolio. You will be placed at the nexus of wide-ranging product development activities and support the design and execution of R&D activities to explore the benefit of including additional disease markers and investigate the utility of liquid biopsy testing.

**Location**:Rolle, VD

**Start**: June 2024

**Contract type**: Career Explorer

**Duration**: 6 months

**Schedule**: Full time (40 hours/week)

**You will be involved in**:

- Communicate both internally and externally with research collaborators to share research goals, coordinate activities and track progress.
- Use issue & project tracking software to plan and report R&D activities and obtain an overview of project management.
- Familiarize yourself with design control procedures in an industry setting to gain insights into product development within a world-leading biotechnology company.

**Requirements**:
**The experience you bring**
- Eagerness to familiarize yourself with new technologies, ability to acknowledge knowledge gaps and curiosity enabling you to overcome these.
- While hands-on experience of NGS library preparation, sequencing procedures would be beneficial.
- Excellent command of written English, ability to summarize information and present your insights and results to an audience in a concise manner.
- Good communicator, you demonstrate sociability and enjoy interacting with different people.

**Benefits**

**Application process**

**All resumes should be in English for a successful review**

**SOPHiA GENETICS**:
We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our AI SaaS Platform enables that. You will have direct input into our mission to radically improve the outcomes for Cancer & Rare Disease patients globally. Enable our customers to push industry boundaries, as we pioneer into newly discovered fields and combine complex, multi-modal data for the first time