Legal Assistant Intern, SOPHiA GENETICS
Salary range: $23-$25/hour
3+ days a week in office
Medicine software company
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Medicine software company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
Salary range: $23-$25/hour
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform patient care by expanding access to data-driven medicine globally.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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!
Our take
Though health and genetic data are increasingly available in large quantities to healthcare providers, it can be very difficult to gain insights from them. Data processing is a significant bottleneck, and important information which could be vital to a patient's health can easily be overlooked or misinterpreted. SOPHiA GENETICS has developed a SaaS platform which seeks to change this by processing raw data received from partner institutions. It then returns a standardised report which can be actioned by the end user. The platform learns from this process, becoming more capable the more data it receives.
The global healthcare AI market is thriving, with numerous large competitors in the sector such as Welltok, iCarbonX and IBM (Watson Health). However, SOPHiA's USP is its democratization of health data. It has continually worked closely with a variety of healthcare providers, each using different instruments and providing non-standardized data. While this was initially a hurdle, once overcome, it has become a strength, allowing the platform to engage with the equipment a healthcare provider has rather than requiring a particular inventory.
SOPHiA went public in 2021 and, since then, has pursued collaborations with institutions and companies that focus on cancer screening and diagnostics. In 2025, the company launched advanced MRD tracking capabilities, further innovating in the oncology space. With these cutting-edge tools, SOPHiA strengthens its leadership in data-driven medicine, paving the way for more personalized healthcare.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2020
$110m
SERIES F
Jan 2019
$78.3m
SERIES E
Total funding: $251.9m
Company HQ
Rolle, VD
Leadership
Jurgi Camblong
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the CEO at Gene Predictis. Prior to that, they were a Post-doctoral Associate Researcher at Oxford University.
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