Student Internship

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The Position

Who We Are

Roche Diagnostics International Ltd in Rotkreuz is one of the world’s leading providers of diagnostic system solutions for clinics, laboratories and doctors’ offices. The company employs over 2200 people in Rotkreuz and is one of Roche Diagnostics main sites.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Process Development team within Blood Gas & Electrolyte (BG&E) Engineering is supporting the manufacturing processes and the quality control of BG&E Sensors and Reagents used in blood gas systems . We are responsible for developing process improvements which lead to better product quality or reduced costs.

We are looking for a highly motivated Intern for the Process Development team within BG&E Sensors. In this role you will mainly support a transfer and capacity extension project for sensor manufacturing. The project involves defining manufacturing processes through experiments on production equipment. As an Intern, you will directly contribute to the process development, process transfer and method evaluation of in-process controls. Therefore, you will get the opportunity to have a direct impact on process and product improvements.

Your main tasks would include:

• Analyze production process and/or experimental data with classical statistics and machine learning

• Build proof-of-concept machine learning-based projects using imaging data

• Support production with MSA and shopfloor analysis experiments

• Support through exploratory data analysis of multiple data types

• Report results and conclusions to the project team

• Create ideas for process improvements

Ideally, you fulfill the following criteria:

• Bachelor degree in the field of Mechanical Engineering, Production and Process Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science or related fields (or a technical apprenticeship with a Bachelor degree ongoing)

• Good programming skills in Python

• Statistical data analysis skills

• First experience in machine learning, preferred in computer vision

• You are interested in new technologies and manufacturing processes

• Able to work independently

• You want to have an impact and prefer to work in a dynamic environment

• Proactive team player who easily connects with people having different backgrounds

• Fluent in both, German and English (spoken and written)

Start date: April-July 2024

Workload: 100%

Duration: 6 -12 months

Please note that due to work permit reasons, NON-EU/-EFTA nationals need to provide a confirmation by their university stating that an internship is mandatory for their studies.

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Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Diagnostics International in Rotkreuz is a leading provider of diagnostic systems solutions, and the largest manufacturer of fully automated in vitro diagnostic systems in Switzerland. We are more than 2’700 passionate colleagues from over 65 nationalities. Find out more about our site in Central Switzerland, here.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.