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Data Analyst Intern, R&D
Job#: GQLS
Positions: 3
Posted: 05/12/2017
Job Type: Intern
Location: US-MA-Boston
Department: R&D
Category: Development
Salary: Hourly
Benefits: No Benefits
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Job Description

Would you like to be a part of the organization where high energy meets intellect? If you get excited by solving puzzles and working in a collaborative environment, then Aptean wants to work with you!! 

Aptean is a leading global provider of industry-focused mission critical enterprise software solutions. Our solutions help nearly 6,500 organizations stay at the forefront of their industries by satisfying their customers and continuing to operate more efficiently. Headquartered in Alpharetta, GA, Aptean has offices in North America, Europe, and India, as well as an extensive Partner Channel. Our customers are located in 74 countries across Europe, Latin America, and North America.     

 Aptean is focused on providing products and solutions to customers in specific verticals. Our products are rich in feature and functionality and delivered on premise, SaaS and Hybrid delivery models. Aptean’s products deliver value at lowest total cost of ownership and scale with needs of our customers. Most of our products and solutions are leaders in the vertical market segments they serve.

Aptean uses its core values of Drive For Results, Win Together, Foster Innovation, and Be Courageous to guide its employee community to serve every customer in every geography and market.

GQ Life Sciences is the industry leader in biological sequence search for Intellectual Property.  We deliver a SaaS software product that lets pharmaceutical and agricultural companies search a database of patents and other data sources for specific DNA and protein sequences.  We also deliver the premiere biological sequence IP database that underlies that product.

The work is fun and challenging.  You will partner with very intelligent co-workers and customers, many of them with advanced degrees, on complex applications that have their origins in the Human Genome Project.  We continue to deliver complex, interactive and downright cool applications to our customers, to maintain our position as the premiere product offering in the market.  No one else does what we do, the way that we do.

We are a small, fun member of the larger Aptean company.  We have a great, open office, a very informal dress code, a pool table that gets used daily, the company buys lunch on Fridays, and we encourage innovation, exploration, risk-taking, and free-thinking.

As an intern at GQ Life Sciences, you will be engaged in a number of short, multi-week projects aimed at improving the content of our sequence database or the quality of our SaaS software products.  Each project will be initially structured by a mentor, who will delineate the goals and methods best used to achieve the result, but it will be up to the team of interns to work as a team, to organize their time and to approach to the problem, and to make their own improvements on the process.  You might also be asked to do presentations on your accomplishments.





Skills/Requirements

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

General Tasks

  • Curate patent data (i.e. read, interpret and validate documents)
  • Analysis tasks (e.g. analyze, interpret and present data from in-house systems use)
  • Software testing
  • Perform assigned projects

Past Intern Projects have included:

  • Scan OCR generated documents for errors in DNA sequences
  • Develop a list of corrected ("normalized") patent assignee names
  • Analyze (and report on) software feature use among client groups and report on trends
  • Compare (and report on) methods and outcomes of resolving a specific question using either of or both of our existing software products
  • Create tutorial videos (script and record) for elements of our software products
  • Test our software products
  • Develop prospect lists using the Internet to find and research potential customers

Education

Current enrollment in related field required

Work Experience

Typically requires no previous professional experience, although previous internship or other professional work experience is desirable.

Knowledge

No specific knowledge or education is required for this position

Skills and Abilities

Exposure to or understanding of Excel, Word, and databases/SQL is a plus

If you are determined to give your best every day and you are seeking an opportunity to work with an amazing group of people, then apply online today!

Aptean, Inc., is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. In accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws No applicant for employment with Aptean shall be subjected to discrimination because of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability, age, covered military veteran status, reprisal for engaging in anti-discrimination activities, protected genetic information, sexual orientation or parental status.

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