2026 AI/ML Bioinformatics Intern (PhD)

AbbVie • North Chicago, IL

120d

About The Position

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 Interns. The intern will work with the Neuroscience Bioinformatics team of the Genomics Research Center (GRC) at AbbVie. The GRC is a multidisciplinary center of excellence with expertise in genomic technologies and their application, human genetics, genomic medicine, computational analysis, data integration, genome biology, and application of functional genomics.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a Master's / PhD in bioinformatics, AI/ML, computational biology or other related field
• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship
• Expected graduation date between December 2026 - July 2027 (2028 PhD)
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or R
• Experience in deep learning/machine learning and TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Exposure to bioinformatics
• Strong written, verbal and oral communication skills, good self-organization

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to RNA-seq and/or DNA-seq analysis
• Experience with computational biology
• Exposure to neuroscience projects

Responsibilities

• Curate and preprocess neuroscience-relevant perturb-seq data for LLM model training
• Fine-tune single-cell foundation model using perturb-seq data
• Train and validate classifier to predict gene perturbations from transcriptomic profiles
• Simulate reversal of transcriptomic disease state based on disease-specific gene expression signatures and pathways
• Consistent collaboration with Neuroscience colleagues to determine transcriptomic disease signatures and prioritize genes for follow-up experiments

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Relocation support for eligible students
• Connect with AbbVie leaders and scientists
• Opportunity to apply cutting edge generative AI to medicine

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Master's degree