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The Position
Pharmaceutical & Solid State Development is part of Pharma Technical Development and is situated in Basel, Switzerland.
Our key expertise is the development of robust and economic processes for drug substances with tailor-made solid-state properties and patient-centric formulations for the synthetic molecule portfolio of projects from early clinical studies to commercialization. We advance the design and delivery of transformative medicines by combining particle engineering, characterization, and formulation development - ensuring optimal drug performance, manufacturability, and patient-centric solutions from molecule to medicine.
As an intern, you will support the Pharmaceutical & Solid State Development department by driving our digital transformation, shifting the focus from building isolated, ad hoc tools to integrating, expanding, and supporting a single centralized digital interface. You will play a key role in consolidating existing applications and data products into a cohesive ecosystem aligned with our core scientific and business workflows, providing our science teams with a streamlined, digital-first operational environment.
The Opportunity
- Interface Unification: Consolidate existing standalone digital applications into a single, cohesive user interface structured around specific pharmaceutical development business logic.
- Feature Support & Optimization: Maintain the unified platform, implement critical upgrades, and develop newly requested features within the existing ecosystem rather than creating disconnected tools.
- Advanced Data Engineering: Design and build reliable data pipelines, robust data products, and secure backend integrations to ensure seamless, high-performance data flow across the central platform.
- Sustainability & Code Auditing: Audit, refactor, and restructure legacy codebase to meet enterprise-level standards for scalability, documentation, and reliable operational handovers.
- AI-Ready Architecture: Set up an AI-ready unified application and data architecture designed for seamless future integration with Roche internal agentic AI tools.
- Collaboration & Workflow Mapping: Translate complex scientific workflows and processes into structured, digitalrequirements by collaborating closely with scientists and project owners.
Who you are
You are a University student (or you graduated within 12 months before the start date) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Bioinformatics, or a related technical discipline, with a strong interest in applying software engineering and data pipelines to scientific and pharmaceutical development challenges.
Furthermore, you are interested in using and sharing your knowledge as part of your Internship in a modern working environment. Your further profile for this position:
- Advanced Programming & Full-Stack Development: Strong proficiency in full-stack web development, framework expertise (e.g., modern frontend/backend frameworks), API design, and clean software architecture.
- Data Science & Engineering: Experience in core data engineering, automating robust data pipelines, and embedding analytical models directly into frontend systems.
- Systems Thinking: Proven ability to translate complex scientific workflows and business logic into structured, user-friendly digital solutions.
- Software Sustainability: Familiarity with version control (Git), code auditing, and writing clean, scalable, and fully documented code.
- Self-sufficient & Collaborative: A team-oriented, problem-solving personality with self-sufficient work habits and a passion for working in a multidisciplinary environment.
- Communication: Excellent proficiency in English; ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical scientific stakeholders.
This internship opportunity is one of a number of positions we offer in the department per semester and is not suitable for writing a Bachelor/Master/Diploma thesis.
The interviews will take place on an interview day with all considered candidates and representatives of the department.
Your complete application includes the following documents:
- A Current CV and a Motivation Letter
- For Non-EU/EFTA citizens: Due to regulations, you must provide a certificate issued by your university stating that an Internship is mandatory for your studies and you must be enrolled during the entire duration of the internship
- The RiSM task (see below)
- A certificate of enrollment (if you are currently studying)
Application process
The application deadline is 23.08.2026. All successful final candidates will be invited to a virtual interview day which will take place on 14.10.2026.
The Internship will start in May to July 2027 and has a duration of 9 to 12 months (alignedwith the project duration, please indicate your preferred start date and availability in yourapplication)
More information about the Roche Internship program in Synthetic Molecules (RiSM) and other opportunities within this program you can find here.
Are you ready to apply? We are looking for someone who thinks beyond the job offered - someone who knows that this position can be a rare springboard to many other opportunities
Additional information (RISM Task)
Assume you are a software and data engineer tasked with unifying multiple fragmented, legacy tools into a central platform.
Please outline a technical proposal (maximum of 3 slides or 2 pages in PDF format) detailing your architectural strategy for:
- How would you structure the unified frontend interface to accommodate diverse workflows
without creating visual clutter.
Your approach to building automated, robust, and scalable data pipelines that bring legacy data into the central system.
How would you structure the backend and data layers to ensure they are "AI-ready" for integration with internal agentic AI tools.
We anticipate receiving your technical strategy alongside your application.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.