2026 AI/ML Bioinformatics Intern (PhD) Full-time

Internship Opportunity At AbbVie

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits and Amenities

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

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.