Vertex Fall 2025 Co-op, Real World Analytics (Boston, MA)

Job Description

The Vertex Co-op Program offers students the opportunity to learn about the pharmaceutical industry from a hands-on perspective. You will be working closely with and learning from some of the brightest people in the industry. When you join our co-op program you should not be surprised to see that our environment is one that is innovative and team oriented, where collaboration is not just a word, and "we are relentless" is in everything we do. Students can expect to be challenged by their project plan, connect with other co-ops,and feel valued by the Vertex community. Not only will co-ops learn about their day-to-day tasks through their specific work assignments, but they will interact and have exposure to our organizational leaders and their teams.

Job Summary:

Structured under Biometrics, among many other responsibilities, Real World Analytics (RWA) is responsible to in-house database stewardship, providing analytic support to real-world evidence generation, developing dashboard, and maintaining RWA Vnet page. The RWA Co-op will work with RWA team and is responsible for projects that assigned by the team manager. The Co-op will have opportunity to learn and leverage Vertex in-house licensed databases to support team's research needs and activities, such as explore and investigate methodologies that would apply to real-world evidence generation research projects, as well as put together a tutorial database insight book that will give researchers better understanding of real-world data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the search of methodologies that related to the assigned projects.
• Present the methodologies to the team, implement the methodologies to real-world data, ensure the implementation is transferable to similar datasets.
• Investigate the representativeness and follow-up completeness of different types of real-world databases, develop database assessment tools and the insight books.
• Lead explore new technologies in real-world data analytics.

Qualifications:

• Pursuing Master or higher degrees in analytics, public health, epidemiology, data science, or other related subject area.
• Previously experience of handling large healthcare data, and statistical modeling.
• Knowledge of AWS and Redshift/Snowflake database management system.
• Hands-on skills of SAS programming, SQL, R, Python, and ML packages such as TensorFlow and scikit-learn.
• Good organizational and written/verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal and team player.
• Ability to work effectively in a constantly changing, diverse, and matrix environment.

• Legal authorizationto work in the United States, now and in the future. Please note that Vertex does not provide sponsorship for internships or entry level roles within this part of the organization.
• Candidate must be enrolled in an advanced degree program if graduating before July 2025
• Candidate must be available to work full-time, 40 hours per week from July - December 2025

Program Dates: July - December 2025, Full Time

Pay Range 30.00 - 50.00 USD/hour

This job posting is for a temporary role with a third-party agency partner that provides services to Vertex. The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of that third-party agency; compensation, medical benefits, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment shall be presented by the third-party agency upon offer. The range provided is a reasonable estimate for the pay range for this job at the time of posting. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements. The actual pay rate will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Company Information

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.

Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at ApplicationAssistance@vrtx.com