Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

2024 Computational Toxicology Internship Overview

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie’s Experiential Interns.

The Computational Toxicology group functions to develop, refine, and bring awareness to in-silico methods that may help predict and understand safety for small and large molecules. The Computational Toxicology Intern will gain exposure to a wide range of safety-related datasets ranging from biology, pharmacology, toxicology, and chemistry to help with predictive modeling, data engineering, and data visualization. Using these datasets, the team hopes to apply data science and machine-learning methodology to better visualize the data and help identify novel and mechanistic associations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with experts to independently curate, harmonize, and interpret internal safety findings across historical data to assist in data convergence .
• Implement strategies to better structure and utilize safety data in a meaningful manner to address scientific inquiry of drug safety challenges.
• Integrate state-of-the-art bioinformatics and AI/ML pipelines into current computational toxicology workflows and user-friendly interfaces.
• Collaborate with research and bioinformatics scientists to conceive informatics analysis strategy, leveraging advanced machine learning/AI algorithms, to support discovery and pre-clinical safety studies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or other related field.
• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship.
• Must have experience with programming and data visualization and/or databasing.
• Proficient in a variety of coding languages, including Python.
• Strong problem-solving skills including critical and analytical thinking.
• Must be able to clearly communicate ideas and findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expected graduation date between December 2024 – July 2025.

Benefits and Amenities

• Competitive pay.
• Relocation support for eligible students.
• Potential for publication co-authorship.
• Opportunity to connect with AbbVie leaders and scientists.
• Exposure to cutting edge technologies and concepts presented by AbbVie scientists.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

Travel: Yes, 5% of the Time

Salary: $51500 - $98000

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.