Scientific Internships - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

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Oxford, United Kingdom

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About the company

Oxford Nanopore Technologies produces the only sequencing platform that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.

Our management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera CBE, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market, furthering our goal of enabling the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere.

About the role

Intern positions are available from the Spring of 2024, to suit dedicated undergraduate and postgraduate student scientists studying Computing, Engineering or Software, and who have a curiosity about pursuing a career in compute engineering.

You will be looking for an authentic and structured intern experience and ideally, be on-course to achieve at least a 2.1 degree at a leading university.

Details

Our programme offers the opportunity to work alongside a multidisciplinary team collaborating on current and next generation computer hardware, Linux OS and embedded systems.
Offering fully hands on roles enabling you to enrich your skills and experience in one or more core aspects of system, electrical or electronic design as well as Linux operating system and software engineering.
Full training and mentoring will be provided to support your success.

Eligibility

All roles require the intern to work full time hours for the duration of the placement, and be present in our Oxford HQ, on Oxford Science Park
Final stage selection will take place in Oxford, or via zoom, week of 19th February 2024

If you're interested in gaining work experience in a highly skilled team of friendly scientists while contributing to the development of platforms for DNA/RNA sequencing development, we would love to hear from you

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Oxford Nanopore's goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere.

The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA.

The technology is used in more than 100 countries to understand the biology of humans and diseases, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses and whole environments.

Oxford Nanopore was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford and now employs over 1000 employees around the world.