ABOUT HUMMINGBIRD BIOSCIENCE
Hummingbird Bioscience is a biotherapeutics company working at the interface of artificial intelligence and human innovation to discover and develop transformative medicines for hard-to-treat diseases. Hummingbird Bioscience’s computational and systems biology technologies have generated a pipeline of innovative clinical-stage monoclonal antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates in oncology and autoimmunity. At Hummingbird Bioscience, the commitment to rigorous science, teamwork, and intellectual integrity underpins our passion to accelerate the journey of new drugs from concept to clinic.
For more information, please visit www.hummingbirdbioscience.com, and follow Hummingbird Bioscience on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Bioinformatics team at Hummingbird Bioscience guides strategic decisions in clinical development that impact real patients. We’re seeking an intern who will build and improve infrastructure to manage, store, and analyze clinical trial data, and who leans on AI coding tools to move faster without sacrificing quality.
In this role, you’ll enable reliable, timely data access for senior leadership (CEO, CSO, CTO, CMO, and VPs), directly influencing company decision-making and the lives of cancer patients.
What you’ll learn / be exposed to:
- Full-stack engineering in a biotech setting (clinical oncology development)
- Modern deployment/versioning strategies and observability
- Data visualization techniques for scientific and clinical stakeholders
- Common analysis patterns used in the biotech industry
- Learn commonly used analysis in the biotech industry
- Get exposed to clinical oncology drug development
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build web apps, analytical dashboards, databases, and ETL pipelines supporting drug and clinical development (Flask + React)
- Augment development with AI (e.g., LLM code assistants, test generators, refactorers) for scaffolding, code review, documentation, and rapid prototyping while following responsible-use guidelines
- Improve and harden existing infrastructure for performance and reliability
- Develop features for data summarization, analysis, and visualization that make insights obvious and actionable
- Maintain Python ETL pipelines and SQL databases; optimize queries and schemas as data scales
- Test & document: add unit/integration tests, type hints, clear READMEs, and change logs
- Deploy safely: use CI/CD, environment configs, and versioning best practices
REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Being currently enrolled in a Bachelor or Master’s Program in Computer Science, Computational Biology, bioinformatics or related science program
- Candidates must be currently based in Singapore and legally authorized to work in Singapore without the need for employment sponsorship.
- Proven experience in python (FLASK), REACT for webapp/dashboard development
- Experience in SQL querying and other database frameworks
- Proven experience in app deployment
- Experience in python for data cleaning and data wrangling
- AWS experience is a plus
- Interest in the clinical development of cancer treatment
- Exposure to AI/LLM APIs (prompting, retrieval, tooling) or local model use
OUR MISSION & VALUES
Our fast-growing biotechnology company is committed to discovering and developing important new drugs for cancer and autoimmune diseases, and living by our values: Excellence, Determination, Teamwork, Intellectual Integrity and Audacity.
JOIN US AT THE FRONTIER OF DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT
We are looking for passionate and motivated individuals committed to solving important, complex problems. We are committed to the personal and professional development of our team and offer robust learning and development programs. Hummingbird Bioscience understands the need for flexibility for our team and offers a generous paid time off program with flexibility to support employees through different life stages. We invest in our team’s health by offering competitive benefits including health and dental insurance, and a comprehensive and holistic employee assistance program. We foster a more collaborative, productive, and sociable culture with on-site lunches and snacks. Finally, we believe in creating social impact beyond our business through corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Are you ready to join us on our mission to discover and develop important new drugs for cancer and autoimmune disease? Click on ‘Apply for this Job’ to submit your application.
For further enquiries, please email us at
[email protected].
Hummingbird Bioscience is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all Singapore and US federal, state and local laws and/or guidelines that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, marital status, protected veteran status and other protected classifications.
