Sensor Technology Intern
When you are part of the team of more than 75,000 extraordinary minds at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will do work with broad societal impact: helping customers find cures for cancer, protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and much more. Your work will have real-world impact. Thermo Fisher is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion!
Our Intern program will give you a chance to get real world business and laboratory experience and build your network before graduation. In our team, we impact early-to-mid range R&D projects focused on the chip and sensor technology powering the Ion Torrent Next Generation Sequencing. In this position, you will obtain hands-on experience working in a multi-disciplinary team and help develop exciting and novel technologies. We are looking for a curious and ready-to-learn candidate to join the team.
What are the exciting things will you be working on?
- Develop surface chemistries and sample prep workflows to improve ion-sensitive field effect transistor (ISFET) sensor technologies for DNA sequencing technology.
- Crafting and executing experiments for hypothesis testing
Required Education/Experience:
- Full-time student in chemistry, materials science, or similar field
- Hands-on laboratory experience in a chemistry or bio-chemistry lab setting
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-functional team
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Strong problem-solving, experimental, and data analysis skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to present experimental design and results to others in a clear, concise, and accurate way
- Experience with surface functionalization chemistries is desired
- Basic knowledge of Python, Jupyter, Pandas, and NumPy is a plus
- Familiarity with statistical methods for data analysis would also be beneficial
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