Co-Op Science & Technology: Automation & Data Science

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at .

Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn .

Science & Technology Organization Co-Op Overview

Envision 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’s Co-Ops.

The Science & Technology (S&T) organization within AbbVie Operations leads the optimization, validation, implementation, continuous improvement, and global technical support for therapeutic proteins. The S&T Co-Op program provides students with robust projects based on business need. Students will do meaningful work that has a real impact on our business and patients worldwide. Possible 2024 Fall Co-Op assignments are in the following departments:

BioProcess Development: The department’s mission is to design, deliver and support the biologics manufacturing process for AbbVie’s pipeline and partnered products through clinical development and commercial life cycle with quality, speed, and manufacturing excellence. This is achieved through a focus on targeted product quality, CMC acceleration, people development, and efficient workflows. Key groups include: Cell line development, Cell culture process development, Purification process development, Scale-up lab, and Analytical development.

Analytical Development : The AD automation team focuses on the development of automated analytical methods to support the evaluation of primary, secondary, an

Qualifications

Minimum

Qualifications

• Must be currently enrolled in a full-time Master’s ( PhD candidates encouraged to apply) program in a scientific or engineering discipline (preferably Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Biosciences/Bioengineering).


• Must be able to commit to a 6-month program at AbbVie Bioresearch Center (ABC) in Worcester, MA from June – December 2024
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Preferred Requirements :

• Cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher preferred


• Excellent problem-solving, written, and verbal skills.


• Exceptional interpersonal, leadership and project management skills.


• Proven track record of teamwork, adaptability, innovation, initiative, and integrity.


• Participate in programming and execution of new Hamilton automation methods to expand throughput and capacity .


• Effectively collaborate with cross functional teams to help develop innovative robust automation solutions for evolving workflows.


• Ability to operate and execute high throughput and high complexity automation workflows.


• Ability to troubleshoot and solve difficult problems with laboratory robots and instrumentation using critical thinking skills.


• Ability to execute, troubleshoot, and interpret complex experimental data to determine next steps.


• Working knowledge of programming and scripting languages: Visual Basic, C/C++, SQL, Python, VBA, VBScrypt, Batch files.


• Familiarity with data science programming tools such as Anaconda Python, Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, matplotlib, seaborn, scikit-learn, tensorflow .
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Additional Information

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.