Data Insights Engineering Intern (Summer 2019)
Data Insights is an entrepreneurial group of engineers that join Flatiron product teams to facilitate the process of market fit discovery, rapid prototyping, and iteration. We use engineering and data science tools to unlock the most value from our data possible. We talk with clients, work with oncology experts and code in Python, SQL, R, or whatever it takes to advance our goal of dramatically accelerating cancer research and improving patient care. (If you don’t know these tools already, you’ll learn them!) The mix of technology and client empathy in a single team puts our engineers in a unique position to generate disruptive ideas that take our product offerings to the next level.
In our first few years, the Data Insights team worked on tools designed to allow healthcare providers to easier manage cancer centers and treat patients. In the years since, we have integrated into teams working across the company to better partner with Life Sciences companies and develop tools to help accelerate clinical research.
As a Data Insights Engineering Intern, you will:
- Be a self-starter that can rapidly iterate on products early in the development of product-market fit when there is a need for product, customer, and technology skills
- Analyze and visualize oncology data for our clients in cancer clinics, academic institutions, and life sciences companies
- Work through complex data pipelines using SQL and other data processing tools
- Own technical customer relationships and ensure clients receive the most value possible from Flatiron products
- Develop knowledge of healthcare industry trends and data
- Learn SQL, data processing, and gain an understanding of how healthcare data works
About you:
- You are graduating between December 2019 and June 2020 from a technical field of study (e.g., engineering, computer science, etc.), or you’ve done programming/scripting on your own
- You are passionate about our mission to improve cancer care through data and technology
- You are a quick learner and can easily pick up new programming languages
- You are a clear and confident communicator who can break down complex data analyses to tell a compelling story
- You understand how to identify major pain points in a user’s workflow, quickly build prototypes to address challenges, gather feedback from the user, and rapidly iterate
- You are self-motivated and able to independently prioritize and address problems in a highly ambiguous environment
- You have experience coding in a data-centric programming language (e.g. SQL, Pandas)
Good if you have experience with (but we can teach you):
- SQL and databases
- Python, version control, product development processes
- Healthcare industry knowledge/context (especially oncology-specific knowledge)