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Job Title: Intern,Controlled Environments
Reporting to: Manager, Controlled Environments
Location: Durham, North Carolina
About Pairwise:
Pairwise is a mission-driven, food tech company dedicated to building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables. Pairwise was founded in 2017 by scientists at Harvard University, MIT, and Broad Institute who are eminent in the field of gene editing, as well as biotechnology industry pioneers. Our team is tuned in to consumer food trends, and we believe that consumers deserve more variety and innovation in their fresh food choices. We are primed to deliver that innovation through one of the best gene-editing platforms in food and agriculture. Pairwise has an exclusive 5-year research collaboration with Bayer to develop products in corn, soybean, wheat, canola, and cotton. Plus, Pairwise is developing new types of consumer crops including berries and stone fruit. Pairwise is based in the start-up friendly Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.
About This Role:
We are seeking passionate, engaging, ready-to-learn interns to join us for Summer 2024. We are looking for a team player with majors in Horticulture, Plant Science, Agronomy, Biology, Botany, Plant Physiology, or a similar field. Pairwise offers the opportunity of getting to work with industry leading scientists and professionals in a cutting edge, industry changing, food tech company. Our interns will be integrated with our teams here at Pairwise to allow for hands on learning in a fast-paced start-up environment. Interns will also have season long cap-stone projects that will add real value and help the team resolve real-world challenges they are currently facing. We like to have fun at Pairwise, so the summer won’t be all work and no play! Pairwise interns will not only have “Intern Only” meeting sessions to talk about their experience and share thoughts and feedback with each other, but will also have events to help with career and educational planning, and team building trips to share in the fun of summer in North Carolina.
One of the responsibilities of the Controlled Environments Team is to identify and evaluate new germplasm that can be part of the company’s future portfolio of products. During this stage, diverse crops and cultivars are grown in greenhouses and growth chambers so we can better understand the growth habits, environmental requirements, and challenges that we face when intaking a new crop or cultivar. Improving plant quality and plant multiplication are also critical responsibilities of the Controlled Environment team. Such activities could include plant propagation, treatment of plant material with chemicals and non-chemical sources, and routine plant care/maintenance. Controlled Environment staff will guide the intern during the internship. The intern will use the scientific method to plan and execute their own study while participating in critical discussions and decisions regarding experimental planning, execution, and result analysis.
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EEO Statement:
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Pairwise we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Intern
Scientific Services
$119k-159k (estimate)
04/18/2024
05/16/2024
pairwise.com
DURHAM, NC
50 - 100
2018
Private
TOM ADAMS
$10M - $50M
Scientific Services