The Position

2026 Fall Intern - Frontier Research, Prescient Design (AI for Drug Discovery)

Department Summary

The Frontier Research team within Prescient Design seeks exceptional graduate student interns with a demonstrated research background in machine learning or statistics, a passion for independent research and technical problem solving, and a proven ability to develop and implement ideas from research. Intern candidates should have a strong interest in decision theory and adaptive experimental design.

This internship position is located in South San Francisco, on site.

The Opportunity

• Participate in cutting-edge research in active simulation-based inference.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify problem settings shared by impactful applications.

• Develop well-documented code to facilitate adoption of the method.

• Present results in the form of a publication, for submission to internal and external scientific venues.

Program Highlights

• Intensive 12-week, full-time (40 hours per week) paid internship.

• Program start date is in September (Fall).

• A stipend, based on location, will be provided to help alleviate costs associated with the internship.

• Ownership of challenging and impactful business-critical projects.

• Work with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.

Who You Are (Required)

Required Education:

• Must be pursuing a PhD (enrolled student).

Required Majors:

• Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math, Physics, or related technical field.

Required skills:

• Strong publication record and experience contributing to research communities, including journals and conferences like NeurIPS, AISTATS, ICML, and ICLR.

• Strong software development skills in Python.

• Ability to reason formally about explore-exploit tradeoffs in adaptive inference procedures.

• Research experience in frameworks involving sequential decision making under uncertainty.

Preferred knowledge, skills, and qualifications:

• General familiarity with simulation-based inference and causal inference is a plus.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

• Complements our culture and the standards that guide our daily behavior & decisions: Integrity, Courage, and Passion.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $40.00-$50.00 hour. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position also qualifies for paid holiday time off benefits.

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