Intern – Biometrics

 

Cytokinetics is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class muscle activators and next-in-class muscle inhibitors as potential treatments for debilitating diseases in which muscle performance is compromised and/or declining. As a leader in muscle biology and the mechanics of muscle performance, the company is developing small molecule drug candidates specifically engineered to impact muscle function and contractility. We take a purpose-driven approach by leveraging our unique muscle biology expertise to engineer compounds with specific characteristics aimed at treating diseases that impact muscle function, like heart failure, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ALS and SMA.

 

At Cytokinetics we are dedicated to supporting the next generation of biotech professionals through our annual Cytokinetics Internship Program. We believe that investing in enthusiastic students and recent graduates brings fresh perspectives and insights to our teams and we take pride in providing opportunities to contribute to meaningful projects. Through our Internship Program we aim to provide a challenging and rewarding experience to build a strong foundation for a career in the biopharmaceutical industry.

 

This is a paid internship at our South San Francisco headquarters. The program is for approximately 10-12 weeks beginning in late May/early June.

 

 

The intern will work closely with Biometrics data management, programming, and biostatistics group to help system testing, data cleaning process, and signal identifications. You will be developing, implementing, and validating systems to manage change control of statistical programming scripts and output. In addition, this project will also develop automated tools relating to managing specification and trackers used to develop clinical trial reports in Excel and XML formats. 

 

The position requires a motivated individual with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. Additionally, we seek an individual with:

 

·      PhD candidate in Statistics or Biostatistics preferred

·      Excellent communication skills and the ability to troubleshoot problems with team members

·      Good SAS skills and statistical concepts

·      Prior experience in system testing, data cleaning and data consistency checking

·      Advanced degree in biostatistics, programming training (i.e. SAS, R), or knowledge of clinical trials data cleaning

·      Update and develop existing Python and SAS scripts to manage change control to internal file systems and Box.com.

·      Document user requirements, documentation, and test scripts for validating the developed system.

·      Perform testing and reconciling findings to ensure system integrity.

·      Develop scripts to manage specifications of SDTM, ADaM and TLF deliverables within Biometrics. This will integrate with Excel within MS Teams.

·      Implement integration with generating define.xml documentation capturing metadata of clinical trials study information with related annotated CRF in PDF format.

 

Our passion is anchored in rigorous and diligent scientific and clinical approaches to the discovery and development of novel mechanism therapeutics. With gratitude for the commitments and convictions of our employees who are inspired by the courage of patients we aim to serve, we believe Cytokinetics will continue to be a pioneering, values-driven, sustainable, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company.