SOPHiA GENETICS

Legal Assistant Intern

SOPHiA GENETICS  •  Boston, MA (Onsite)  •  4 days ago
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Job Description

Complete an internship project at SOPHiA GENETICS whose mission is to build the future of AI-assisted medicine. Joining the Legal Affairs team as a Legal Assistant Intern

Your mission:

Reporting to the Commercial Legal Counsel, as a Legal Assistant Intern, you will help with the daily review of agreements, including but not limited to NDAs and MTAs and will assist the Legal team with the review of other commercial agreements, and agreements related to Business Development and BioPharma opportunities. You will also help with the implementation of internal Legal AI tools.

You will be involved in:

  • Assist in building the database and playbooks for an internal Legal AI tool
  • Supervised review and prep of contracts/amendments including contract extensions, confidentiality agreements, and commercial agreements
  • Support legal operations and contract management systems
  • Ad hoc legal research, including surveying differences between US State laws and international laws

What you will learn:

  • This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in a groupwide initiative, across teams and geographies and acquire project management skills, which is very rare in the legal space. This is also an opportunity to learn more about the key issues in a fast-paced software business in the healthcare industry, in a truly international environment.

Requirements

  • A JD candidate (currently enrolled in law school)
  • Good knowledge of commercial law
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Pragmatic individual
  • Dynamic, proactive, and detail-oriented personality with a natural curiosity for learning
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Strong problem-solving abilities and adaptability to a dynamic, evolving environment
  • Fluency in English

Benefits

Location: Boston, office based at least 3 days/week

Start: May 2026

Contract type: Internship 3 months

Application process

Apply now with your CV and any supporting information.

Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader, alongside key colleagues, and stakeholders from across the business.

As a global business, English is our primary language and English-only speakers will be involved in your recruitment process. All resumes should be in English for a successful review!

SOPHiA GENETICS:

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our AI SaaS Platform enables that. You will have direct input into our mission to radically improve the outcomes for Cancer & Rare Disease patients globally. Enable our customers to push industry boundaries, as we pioneer into newly discovered fields and combine complex, multi-modal data for the first time!

For more information, visit our website: https://www.sophiagenetics.com/

You will be joining an organisation with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.

Business recognition and accolades include:

  • World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
  • World's smartest companies (Top 50)
  • 100 Best Places to Work in Boston
  • Top 10 European Tech Startup
  • Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
  • Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch

Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview:

Our DNA

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous

Our Virtues

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action. We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.

At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal

SOPHiA GENETICS

About SOPHiA GENETICS

SOPHiA GENETICS was founded in 2011 by biologists who had a vision to create a technology that could make a positive and lasting impact on the world, using data for good.

We’ve built a revolutionary technology platform, SOPHiA DDM™, that rapidly distills complex data into actionable insights, enabling clinicians, researchers, and biopharma to reshape the way that we diagnose and treat cancer and rare inherited disorders.

The AI fueling our platform learns from the complex genomic and multimodal data provided by our community of users to create a collective intelligence over time. By using the power of data and AI, we are expanding access to data-driven medicine and enabling the patients of today to help the patients of tomorrow.

Our science is driven by unrelenting passion for our mission to transform patient care by expanding access to data-driven medicine globally.

We wouldn’t be able to achieve all that we have – and all that we will – without our people, who are driven by our shared purpose to ensure that every patient worldwide has equitable access to precision medicine.

Our virtues are our behaviors we exhibit every day, and our mantra “We Care” is our driving force.

Industry
Biotech & Life Sciences
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Rolle, CH
Year Founded
2011
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