Description

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions Intern, Summer 2024

Come discover what our employees already know: work here matters everywhere. At Syneos Health, we're growing and evolving, which means you'll have endless opportunities to collaborate with passionate experts around the world and build your dream career.

As a part of our team, you'll help us deliver results for a rewarding reason - we improve patients' lives around the world. Because to us, a patient isn't just a number, they're our family, friends, and neighbors.

Who We Are

We bring together the best clinical and commercial minds to create a better and faster way to get medicines into the hands of patients who need it most. We're a global biopharmaceutical solutions company that was built with the purpose to achieve one goal: shortening the distance from lab to life. Learn more about Syneos Health.

Our Summer Internship Program

An internship with us gives you the opportunity to work side by side with passionate problem solvers on powerful and fulfilling work. Our collaborative culture inspires you to learn from the expertise surrounding you and to share your own knowledge and experience with colleagues. You'll be asked to speak up and challenge the status quo - you have a voice and will be encouraged to use it.

Additionally, over the summer, there will be opportunities to participate in events just for our interns: social events with other interns, career development workshops, and networking with senior leaders - just to name a few!

As a healthcare company we have an important responsibility to protect individual and public health. This position will require individuals to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of their job responsibilities, unless an exemption can be confirmed based on a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief. Submission & Approval of an Exemption does not guarantee that an exemption can be accommodated.

This Opportunity

AI/ML is a rapidly growing field with a wide range of applications. By participating in an AI/ML internship, you can kick start your career in AI/ML & demonstrate your skills, work ethic and commitment to the field. The AI/ML team is seeking a summer intern to join us to conduct research, analyzing industry trend & collaborate with stakeholders to develop innovative AI solutions tailored to specific business needs. This role will provide an opportunity to gain practical experience working with AI/ML technologies and tools, develop skills in real-world setting and network with professionals in the field today.

What You'll Do

* Work with engineering leaders to transform research into AI capabilities in our platform.

* Develop text, image, and business analytical solutions.

* Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, product teams and other key stakeholders and drive AI/ML projects from conception to completion.

* Design, develop, validate, deploy, and manage new functionality based on business requirements.

* Partner with QA team on test automation of new and existing functionalities.

* Collaborate with other engineers to conduct system integration and tests.

* Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues on the enterprise data pipelines.

* Work cross-functionally, to identify a business problem, design technical solutions, demonstrate, and deliver business impact.

* Work on deployment and ensure products are production-ready and function smoothly.

* Work with a small team on cutting-edge research and development projects.

* Guide and mentor engineering teams to raise collective technical expertise.

* Define database structures, identify data type for collection, and setup data analysis software.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Expertise

* Current pursuit of a bachelor's or master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Analytical Science, or equivalent.

* Experience with AI toolkits such as Spectrum, Dropbox, Symantec, Harver, Tableau, Salesforce

and Oracle Database.

* Experience working with LLM models such as Anthropic, Cohere, OpenAI and frameworks such as Llama2, Langchain.

* Experience with RAG methods

* Experience with prompt engineering, design, and craft prompts.

* Familiarity in assessing and validating LLM performance and capabilities, both in terms of evaluating the model's accuracy and effectiveness (evaluation) and utilizing it to generate responses or predictions based on input data (inference).

• Experience with APEX (Oracle Application Express) development is preferred.
• Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL, PL/SQL
• Experience with Oracle databases is preferred.
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, A-B, and regression
• Above average attention to detail, accuracy, and organizational, interpersonal, and team-oriented skills
• Must be a self-starter and be willing to take accountability for projects, problems and issues.
• Ability to perform several tasks simultaneously while meeting deadlines is necessary.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Why Syneos Health

* We love living the #SyneosHealthLife - we're committed to our Total Self culture where everyone can authentically be themselves. Our culture unites us globally, and we know every person's unique contributions make a difference.

• We believe our success is a direct result of the people who are driving it - you! We value your dedication to care for our customers and patients, so we want to focus on taking care of you. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits program encompassing your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health