Summer Internship – Software Engineer

About The Company

What’s Promptly in a nutshell

Promptly is building the first patient-centered global evidence network, offering real world data sharing and monetization capabilities. Together with a selected network of Partners, we generate new knowledge from harmonized datasets, augmented with the collection of longitudinal patient-reported data and patient-generated digital biomarkers within a secure and privacy-preserving environment. We deliver valuable insights to leading health systems, payers and life-science companies across multiple therapeutic areas, including cardiometabolic, oncology, and immunology. Operating in 10 countries, we promote better healthcare at lower costs for thousands of new patients every day through the use of Real World Evidence.

We answer the question – is this patient treatment the best it could possibly be?

What’s Our Purpose

We exist to empower every patient and every health organization on the planet with evidence on the outcomes of care!

Why do we get up in the morning? Well, most healthcare professionals have chosen to work in healthcare driven by their desire to make a difference in patients’ lives. And so have we! We have chosen to follow this calling by addressing the biggest problem in healthcare: the lack of real-world evidence on the outcomes of care.

For us, society denying patients better care due to lack of access to data is unethical, in a world where technology improved so many aspects of our world. Making the right evidence available to healthcare organizations to help prevent one lost life, one care complication, one failed treatment is the moral obligation that big tech companies have – it’s our Hippocratic Oath.

At Promptly, everything we do is driven by our core purpose: to promote better healthcare at lower costs for patients every day, by making health outcomes available.

Summer Internship Details

• Duration of 8–10 weeks, starting in July.
• Work on a project that will help Promptly achieve long term objectives.
• Full-time internship. You manage your own time.
• If you have a holiday in the middle of the internship that's ok.
• Remote, but we have our offices open for you.
• You will have a mentor who will be responsible for guidance and supervision.
• For Residents in Portugal, only.

Project Introduction

To provide hands-on experience with federated analytics techniques on healthcare data standardized using the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM), using synthetic data and approachable open-source tools. The program will start with foundational concepts and build towards more complex analysis or model training.

Project inserted in the Analyze/Clinical Team.

Objectives

The Objectives Of This Project Are

• Understand the core concepts of Federated Learning and Federated Analytics
• Become familiar with the OMOP CDM structure and its role in healthcare data standardization
• Gain hands-on experience simulating a federated network using local instances and synthetic OMOP data
• Implement and execute a basic observational healthcare study using traditional methods on simulated data
• Adapt the observational study analysis to a federated analytics framework, focusing on privacy-preserving aggregation of results across simulated sites
• To validate findings using published OMOP-based studies and methodology
• (Stretch Goal) Explore basic federated machine learning model training if time permits and the selected study allows

Technology Stack

• Data: Synthetically generated patient data converted to the OMOP CDM format using the Synthea stack.
• Framework: Flower or Vantage6
• Programming Language: Python, + R, SQL

Expected outcomes

At the end of the internship, it is expected to achieve the following outcomes:

• Improve and solidify software skills
• Learn and be aware about Federated learning
• Familiarity with using real-world data and OMOP standards in analytical projects
• Improve professionally and worked in a real professional environment

Intern Profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data science, Biomedical Engineering or a related field.
• 3rd or 4th year student preferred.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming principles
• Proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, R, Java, JavaScript).
• Interest in healthcare data and real-world evidence
• Good mindset problem-solving abilities.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Eager to explore, experiment, and understand how things work.

What We Offer

• A salary of 656€/month
• The opportunity to work at a real-world startup that is already changing patients’ lives.
• Work with and learn from an experienced team.

What Is The Recruiting Process Like

• Internal triage of CVs.
• Schedule an interview with our team to get to know you and to give you an overview of Promptly.
• Final Selection of students.
• Finally, you will get your offer and hopefully you’ll accept it!

Our Culture & Values

Empathy

If there is 1 rule at Promptly, this is the one – before making any judgement, put yourself in the shoes of another.

Empathy is the courage to choose to actively understand what the experience of another person could have felt like, without necessarily have experienced it ourselves.

Empathy is not a one-day journey, it is a mindset that must be continuously developed – it is an everyday choice to fight for kindness and, by doing so, to help change people, organizations, and society for the better.

If you embrace this mindset, you are a true leader @ Promptly, you are a true leader in our society.

Ownership

At Promptly, we don’t foster fixed hierarchies or top-down decision making. If you want to hit the ground running in our team, do not wait for someone to “tell you what to do”.

Acting like an owner means that you should align with our core purpose and find the best way to deliver on it, every day.

Starting a new project, analyzing new data, reaching out to a new client, there is no area of the company you cannot have an impact in, because there is no such thing as “someone else’s problem”.

Responsibility

Working to improve healthcare is a great responsibility and what inspires us to not settle for less.

You have the responsibility to be a leader within our company. A leader is not a title. A leader is someone who delivers on our core purpose and inspires others to follow our cultural values. It is a “great power, and a great responsibility”.

Leadership comes with the awareness of one’s own strengths and weaknesses and the responsibility to use these to deliver on what you promised. It comes with the responsibility to understand the context, ask for help when needed (teamwork), and be accountable for the quality of what we produce (excellence).

Teamwork

Our team is our greatest asset, and we are fortunate to attract great people. We go the extra mile to find the best person for every role – making our team diverse in backgrounds, personal experiences, skills and knowledge.

If you are not contributing – or worse, actively destroying – teamwork, you are derailing us from our core purpose and ultimately hurting patient care.

Excellence

At Promptly, we’re recognized by society as thought leaders, contributing to research and evidence generation through technology and data science.

Data Privacy

Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Promptly’s recruitment related activities which includes setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, assess and review such candidates and similar activities needed in the recruitment and hiring process. Your personal data will be shared with Proef, a provider engaged by Promptly to help us manage our recruitment and hiring process. For more information about how Promptly processes personal data and information about your rights etc., please see Promptly’s/ Proef’s Privacy Policy (link to: Policy for management of application (proef.com)).

By submitting your application, you consent to Promptly/ Proef processing your personal data for recruitment purposes and to store such personal data for up to 12 months, unless we receive a request of erasure of the data from you to protecaodedados@proef.com, in case Promptly would like to contact you regarding future job openings.

By submitting this application, I confirm that all the information given by me in this application for employment and any additional documents attached hereto are true to the best of my knowledge and that I have not wilfully suppressed any material fact. I confirm I have disclosed if applicable any previous employment with Promptly Health. I accept that if any of the information given by me in this application is in any way false or incorrect, my application may be rejected, any offer of employment may be withdrawn or my employment with Promptly Health may be terminated summarily or I may be dismissed. By submitting this application, I agree that my personal data will be processed in accordance with Promptly Health's Candidate Privacy Notice