Internship: Machine Learning for Drug Development Belgium - 2025

GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline

Software Engineering
Rixensart, Belgium
Posted on Nov 21, 2024

Help us get ahead of disease together with our Internship Programme

Education required: You are regularly enrolled in a Bachelor/Master in Physics or Life Sciences or Mathematics/Computer Science in an Educational Establishment located in Europe.

Language requirement: You are fluent in English.

Expected start date: As soon as possible.

Duration: 6-9 months.

Work arrangements: Hybrid

Requisite: The internship must be mandatory & done in the framework of the curriculum, for which an agreement must be signed between GSK, the student and the Educational Establishment.

Remuneration: according to Belgian legal requirements, the internship will not be paid. However, some expenses will be reimbursed.

Application deadline: We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can to be considered.

Looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the health of billions of people? Apply for a GSK Internship today!

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, serious work on live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from us, develop your skills and gain valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.


What will you do?

  • Work with chemists and data scientists to help accelerate medicine development at GSK.

  • Develop innovative approaches to data curation, quality, and visualization for chemical matter and experiments.

  • Help materials scientists understand solid form development (turning a molecule into a pill) using computational tools.

  • You will build chemical databases leveraging tools like Arthor and RDKit.

  • You will build models to understand and predict the interactions between molecules using tools from cloud computing, machine learning and cheminformatics.

  • You will mine large databases such as the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and GSK proprietary systems

  • You will present your results to scientists at internal meetings.

What are we looking for?

  • Keen interest in digital/computational chemistry.

  • Solid programming skills in Python, R or C++ (Python preferred).

  • Knowledge of version control tools.

  • Ideally some experience with HPC/cloud computing.

  • Adept at communicating with both chemists and data scientists.

Let’s do this!

You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website – Learn more about the application process | GSK

Apply now!

We recommend you apply as soon as possible, because we accept ongoing applications and offer positions on a first come, first served basis.

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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