2025 Summer Intern - DHT Data and Statistical Sciences

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

The Data Science Associate Internship role is an opportunity to be a member of an interdisciplinary scrum team responsible for designing and implementing automation-based solutions for all phases of the life cycle for R packages, Python libraries and other data science products.

Your scrum team will develop a suite of multifaceted, reusable and scalable CI/CD pipelines, both internal and open sourced, to ensure that code quality, security, and compliance are guaranteed from project inception through release. You will also play a critical role in designing and building LLM tools, frameworks, and methodologies to improve data science programming efficiency.

The Opportunity:

The role of Data Science Associate is to provide statistical and programming support to Analytical Data Scientists and Biostatisticians involved in clinical research in Product Development. This is a unique opportunity to learn and contribute to various scientific and statistical aspects of drug development, where data scientists play a crucial role. The primary responsibilities include R/SAS-based programming and application development, methodological research, and supporting the statistical analysis and interpretation of clinical trials.

• Providing statistical expertise on clinical trial protocols, data analysis plans and statistical analysis plans.
• Programming statistical analysis datasets and summaries (tables, listings, and graphs) for clinical trials according to requirements (specifications and standards).
• Collaborating with other data scientists and stakeholders from numerous disciplines to help answer scientific questions with outcomes such as publications and presentations.
• Providing analytical and programming support for exploratory activities such as personalized healthcare, biomarker development and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling.
• Software development: developing R packages, R shiny app, or automation workflows to support data engineering and data analysis.

Who You Are :

• Must be currently enrolled in a graduate program at a Master level.
• Master Degree intern majoring in Statistics, Mathematics or Data Science (highly preferred in the MBiotech Digital Health Technology program at University of Toronto).
• Availability to attend the internship in a hybrid model (minimum 3 days in the office), full time and for a 12 month length.
• Technical capabilities in statistics and statistical programming.
• Experience of writing R code.

Preferred:

• Passion for learning and curious about drug development in the biotech industry.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem solving and decision making skills.
• Complements our culture and the standards that guide our daily behavior & decisions: Integrity, Courage, and Passion.

Additional Information:

• Duration (12 months), work term (Full time) and will begin in (May, 2025).
• Location: Based in Mississauga, Ontario.
• Our team follows a hybrid work structure (minimum 3 days in the office).

This position is not eligible for relocation support.

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Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Pharma Canada has its office in Mississauga, Ontario and employs over 850 employees. The Mississauga facility is bright, vibrant, fosters collaboration and teamwork, and is reflective of Roche's truly innovative culture.

As of January 4, 2022, Roche requires all new employees who work in Canada to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on the date they take office. This requirement is a condition of employment at Roche that applies regardless of whether the position is on a Roche campus or remotely. If you have a valid reason for not being fully immunized, which is limited to certain specific medical reasons or other valid reasons protected by applicable human rights laws, you may request an exemption and/or adaptation measures regarding this vaccination requirement.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.