Systems Engineering Intern

At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness.   

We are looking for a Systems Engineering Intern who is curious, loves to learn, and wants to make an impact on cutting-edge projects. Our program has multiple elements (no pun intended) to ensure that you have a well-rounded internship experience helping the Systems Engineering team to develop and test our sequencing platforms. This internship will also provide opportunities to develop soft skills as well as meet with Leaders across the organization to learn about their careers and gain insights on how to navigate your early career decisions.

This role is a San Diego based role. If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this opportunity.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Develop bench top test stations to support module level feasibility and reliability testing
• Bring up, test, and troubleshoot prototype instruments
• Perform sequencing runs on prototype instruments and analyze results to optimize system level performance
• Develop and maintain data analysis scripts for bench top test and sequencing runs
• Work cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, optical, and fluidic engineers to achieve project milestones

Education and Experience:

• Undergraduate (Senior) /graduate student (MS/PhD) currently enrolled in the engineering/physics
• Experience in scripting for hardware testbed automation including motion control, sensor integration, and data logging using python, LabView, etc
• Proficiency in data analysis using python, MATLAB, etc
• Research/hands-on experience with instrument HW/SW integration and HW test tools (microscope, multimeter, oscilloscope etc.) is preferred (1+ yrs.)
• Cross-functional collaboration and effective communication is highly desired in this role
• Python knowledge strongly preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to lift 15 pounds 

Location:

• San Diego - onsite

Travel: 

• N/A

Job Type:

• Intern/Non-exempt

Base Compensation Pay Range:

• $25 - 40/hr

Please note: Compensation will depend on multiple factors, including degree and experience level. 

We foster an environment such that all people are afforded the freedom to pursue their passions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.