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Intern - Development - CDS AI Research Center
Gilead Sciences INC · 🇺🇸 United States - California - Foster City
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 159 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 75 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Gilead Sciences INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Associate I, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics” (Operations Research Analysts) in CA: $111k–$213k, median $115k. Most were filed at wage level II (75%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Gilead Sciences INC
The US Department of Labor certified 159 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 75 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description sIntern - Development - CDS AI Research Center As a Gilead intern you will contribute to high-impact meaningful projects that will not only further advance our company’s mission but will allow you to gain real world experience at one of the most innovative organizations in the world. You will also have opportunities to participate in special events including professional development and leadership presentations, social/network building activities and local community volunteer programs. The AI Research Center (ARC) Clinical Data Science team is seeking a Software Engineering Intern to help develop production-grade software and intelligent data-processing solutions that support data-driven decision-making in a regulated enterprise environment. In this role, you will design and implement backend services that ingest and process external data updates, detect meaningful changes, and generate concise stakeholder-focused summaries to enable downstream analytics, insights, and notifications. You will work closely with software engineers, data scientists, architects, and product stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions that bridge traditional software engineering with emerging AI capabilities. This is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience building enterprise AI systems while contributing to real-world applications in clinical research and development. Key Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following: • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in an agile development environment to define requirements and deliver technical solutions. • Design and build backend services and data-processing components using maintainable, strongly typed code. • Develop deterministic logic to identify, classify, and prioritize meaningful data changes from external sources. • Implement LLM-powered summarization capabilities with structured outputs, validation mechanisms, and operational guardrails. • Design and develop APIs and service interfaces for downstream consumers and applications. • Integrate components into existing workflow orchestration and event-driven processing pipelines. • Build automated unit, integration, and regression tests to ensure software quality and reliability. • Participate in technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and code reviews. • Implement production-readiness capabilities including logging, monitoring, metrics, error handling, and resiliency patterns. • Create technical documentation such as design specifications, interface contracts, prompt and model versioning notes, and operational runbooks.