Protein Design & Data Science Co‑Op

Bayer AG; Chesterfield (MO); On-site; USD 32,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Vision

Dental

Retirement

PTO

Sick leave

Job summary

Bayer seeks a Computational Co-op to advance protein engineering and biological data science projects. You will develop scalable computational workflows, integrate multi-omics datasets, and apply machine learning in a collaborative environment.

The role involves cloud-enabled Nextflow pipelines, data integration, and close work with protein engineers, computational biologists, and data scientists in an interdisciplinary setting at Bayer.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D. in a related field (bioinformatics, computational biology, data science, chemistry, CS, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, genomics)
• Experience programming in Python, R, Bash, or similar languages
• Familiarity with biological data analysis, ML, statistics or scientific computing
• Interest in protein engineering, structural biology, multi-omics, plant biology, or insect biology
• Strong problem-solving, documentation, data visualization, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently while collaborating with scientists from multiple disciplines

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and document reproducible pipelines for protein engineering and related workflows
• Implement data quality checks, standardized inputs/outputs, workflow monitoring, and reproducibility practices
• Integrate diverse biological datasets for exploratory analyses and predictive modeling
• Maintain well-documented code using version control and collaborative software development
• Present progress and results to scientific stakeholders
• Develop cloud-enabled Nextflow pipelines for structure prediction, design, scoring, and candidate prioritization
• Integrate protein interaction/metabolomic datasets to identify signals related to plant performance
• Model insect resistance using molecular/genomic/phenotypic/population data
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance proteomics and data science initiatives

Skills

Python

R

Bash

Data analysis

Machine learning

Documentation

Communication

Education

Master’s or Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology/Data Science/related field

Tools

Nextflow

AWS

Linux

Containers

Git

HPC

Job description

Bayer seeks a Computational Co-op to advance protein engineering and biological data science projects. You will develop scalable computational workflows, integrate multi-omics datasets, and apply machine learning in a collaborative environment.

The role involves cloud-enabled Nextflow pipelines, data integration, and close work with protein engineers, computational biologists, and data scientists in an interdisciplinary setting at Bayer.