4 days ago
Durham, NC, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Help wrap and operationalize bioinformatics literature-search and report-generation pipelines into production-grade RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
- Contribute to API documentation, service contracts, versioning, observability, logging, alerting, and external platform integrations.
- Develop language-generation features for pharmacogenomics and microbiome report generation using structured clinical and scientific outputs.
- Implement architectural guardrails and validation to prevent unapproved clinical associations and prohibited diagnostic claims.
- Build internal rule and literature updating workbenches and clinical review portals for PharmD, science, technical director, and pathology teams.
- Support full-stack development across backend services, API endpoints, and responsive front-end interfaces.
- Apply healthcare-grade security practices including PHI handling, encryption, role-based access control, and audit logging.
- Assist QA and validation engineers with guardrail fuzzing, output-pathway testing, and concordance testing against reference interpretations.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or graduate degree program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related field.
- Preferred candidates are sophomores, juniors, or graduate students, although all currently enrolled students pursuing related studies may apply.
- Preferred familiarity with Python or Node.js, data pipeline or workflow orchestration tools, clinical report standards or terminology, cloud platforms, Docker, front-end development, RESTful API design, or web application development.
- Preferred coursework or project experience in bioinformatics, NLP, machine learning, or full-stack web development.
- Interest in NLP, text generation, large language models, genomics, molecular diagnostics, bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics, or clinical laboratory data.
- Preferred exposure to pharmacogenomics data flows, CPIC guidelines, PharmVar, FDA pharmacogenomic labeling, microbiome sequencing, 16S rRNA, or metagenomic outputs.
- Ability to communicate effectively, show initiative, work independently under general supervision, and learn in a regulated life sciences environment.
Benefits
- Paid co-op running January 2027 through May 2027, with an option for back-to-back Spring and Summer 2027 terms.
- Hybrid work schedule in Burlington, North Carolina or Durham, North Carolina, Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week.
- Intern and temporary employees are eligible to participate in the 401(k) plan; employees scheduled for 20 or more hours may qualify for additional comprehensive benefits.
- Eligible benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability, PTO or FTO, tuition reimbursement, and an employee stock purchase plan.
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About Labcorp
Labcorp provides clinical laboratory testing and diagnostic services to hospitals, physicians, health systems, employers, and patients, and offers laboratory support for clinical research and drug development. The public company is headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina and trades on the NYSE under the ticker LH. Its offerings span routine and specialty testing, genetics and oncology, and central-lab services for trials used by biopharma and researchers worldwide.