AI-Driven NGS & Reagent Development Intern

EdUpStairs; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 100,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche Diagnostics Cape Town offers a 12-month internship in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Agentic AI Engineering Support. You will bridge biology, AI tools, and practical Python programming to help assay design and reagent development.

You will build Python pipelines and AI workflows, verify model outputs against evidence, and collaborate with assay scientists to translate scientific requirements into robust AI utilities.

Qualifications

• Honours/Master’s in relevant field within last 2 years.
• Foundational biology and assay principles.
• Proven Python coding for data processing or tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop Python pipelines and AI agent workflows for assay design.
• Create verification checks ensuring AI outputs match evidence.
• Bridge biology and computing to support experimental workflows.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Troubleshooting

Education

Honours or Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology/Genomics/Computational Biology/Bioinformatics

Tools

Python

AI Tools/LLM APIs

Job description

Roche Diagnostics Cape Town offers a 12-month internship in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Agentic AI Engineering Support. You will bridge biology, AI tools, and practical Python programming to help assay design and reagent development.

You will build Python pipelines and AI workflows, verify model outputs against evidence, and collaborate with assay scientists to translate scientific requirements into robust AI utilities.