Bioengineering student looking for some advice

Hello everyone, I'm new to submitting stuff on Hacker News so sorry if I messed up this submission somehow. Anyway, I'm majoring in Bioengineering at my university and I'm not sure what there is out there for careers in the field of Bioengineering.

So far in my coursework I've taken a class on networks, signal processing and now I'm taking courses on Data Acquisition+Analysis using Matlab. I'm also a novice in Python and I've wanted to work on a project to better my skills but I don't have the necessary skills for some of these big open source projects on github.

Anyone with experience in the field offer me advice? Should I get a background in Computer Science if I wanted to work for the more tech program oriented companies out there?

I feel lost...