Bioinformatics Intern - Protein Design

Job Description

• Bioinformatics internship with Syngenta Seeds' Bioinformatics Team in Durham, NC, focused on computational protein design for agricultural biotechnology.
• Generate, rank, filter, and evaluate novel protein candidates and minibinders using sequence-, structure-, interface-, and computational-metric analyses.
• Build and optimize reproducible workflows integrating protein design, structure prediction, ranking, data processing, automation, and visualization.
• Use ProteinMPNN, BoltzGen, Boltz-2, RFdiffusion, AlphaFold, PyMOL, Linux/Unix, HPC, AWS, Python, and Bash.
• Requires current MS or PhD enrollment in a relevant field; internship runs May 2027–August 2027 and pays $20–$45 hourly.