Computational Scientist Industrial Placement 2023

Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for a Computational Scientist Industrial Placement role at GSK today!

The role

Our approach to R&D focuses on science related to the prevention and treatment of disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to impact health at scale. Our pipeline currently comprises of more than 60 vaccines and medicines across four core therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious diseases, immunology / respiratory and HIV. Find out more: Our approach to R&D.

The Computational Sciences department at GSK Stevenage works in close collaboration with our R&D colleagues to apply computational techniques to discover better and safer medicines for patients.

We have a diverse range of expertise, from machine learning to cheminformatics, bioinformatics and molecular simulation. We use modern machine learning methods to build predictive models for use in drug discovery and generative models to propose novel molecular structures which are predicted to solve problems encountered by our drug design teams.

We work with state-of-the-art computational methods and infrastructure, including 3D (3 Dimensional) modelling, quantum mechanics and molecular simulation; we need you to help us make them even better.

You will be involved in the implementation and evaluation of novel methods which add to our already extensive toolbox.

Please note this is a computational role and will not involve any laboratory work.

Who are we looking for?

• A good knowledge of basic statistics and a strong interest in data science/machine learning.
• Some knowledge of chemistry would be advantageous and familiarity with a programming language such as Python is preferable.
• You should be thorough in the way you work and pay attention to detail.
• You will be able to plan and organise your own work and can work independently as well as in a team environment.
• You should be able to follow projects through to completion.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills are essential.

What do we offer you?

• A salary of £21,000, plus a bonus
• Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs and pension plan membership
• On-the-job experience and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring, and training programs
• A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
• You will join a GSK Industrial Placement community of over 250 students across the UK and business areas
• Access to LinkedIn groups to enable the new Industrial Placement community to network and connect before start date
• For R&D placements you will also be enrolled in several GSK internal courses as part of company policy such as data integrity, use of internal electronic lab book, laboratory safety rules.
• Within R&D you will have the opportunity to attend seminars by GSK scientists, which run throughout the year and comprise of a wide range of areas within drug discovery.

Let’s do this!