As a Legal Assistant Intern, you'll assist with reviewing contracts and agreements, support legal operations, and help implement Legal AI tools.
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:
What you will learn:
Requirements
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:
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
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
Top Skills
Contract Management Systems
Legal Ai Tools
SOPHiA GENETICS Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
401 Park Drive, Boston, MA, United States, 02215
Similar Jobs at SOPHiA GENETICS
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Healthtech • Software • Biotech
Lead integration projects for SOPHiA DDM Platform, ensuring successful implementation between the platform and external systems while managing relationships and project strategies.
Top Skills:
Atlassian SuiteAWSAzureCi/CdConfluenceFhirGitGitlabHl7 V2Hl7 V3JavaJIRAPythonSmart On Fhir
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Healthtech • Software • Biotech
The Senior NGS Bioinformatician will lead NGS data analysis, product development, and statistical studies for various cancer and rare disease projects.
Top Skills:
Analytical Validation TechnologiesNgs PipelinesPythonRRare Disease Technologies
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Healthtech • Software • Biotech
The Associate Sales Executive will prospect potential customers, support sales, manage CRM systems, and achieve sales targets while traveling 15-25%.
Top Skills:
Salesforce
What you need to know about the Boston Tech Scene
Boston is a powerhouse for technology innovation thanks to world-class research universities like MIT and Harvard and a robust pipeline of venture capital investment. Host to the first telephone call and one of the first general-purpose computers ever put into use, Boston is now a hub for biotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence — though it’s also home to several B2B software giants. So it’s no surprise that the city consistently ranks among the greatest startup ecosystems in the world.
Key Facts About Boston Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 269,000; 9.4% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Toast, Klaviyo, HubSpot, DraftKings
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, software, aerospace
- Funding Landscape: $15.7 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Summit Partners, Volition Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, MassVentures, Highland Capital Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: MIT, Harvard University, Boston College, Tufts University, Boston University, Northeastern University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, National Bureau of Economic Research, Broad Institute, Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
