Roche · 12 hours ago
2026 Summer Intern - LLM-based Agents (Prescient Design / AI for Drug Discovery)
New York City
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$50/hr - $50/hr
Start in 2026 SummerRoche is advancing drug discovery through cutting-edge machine learning and is seeking graduate student interns to join their efforts. The role involves contributing to real-world drug discovery use cases by collaborating with AI/ML engineers and scientists, with a focus on either engineering or research in the field of large language models (LLMs).
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsOncologyPharmaceuticalPrecision Medicine
Responsibilities
Contribute to cutting-edge efforts bringing LLMs and AI capabilities into real-world drug discovery use cases
Collaborate closely with AI/ML engineers and scientists on engineering and research in a fast-paced environment
Interact with world-class drug discovery experts across Roche at various stages of the drug discovery pipelines
Explore the frontier of LLMs and agents, tackling unsolved scientific problems through novel product design engineering or research
Own an end-to-end solution: understand scientists’ needs, build agents and tools, deploy them and iteratively improve based on scientists’ feedback
Contribute to product design and develop new features for the agent platform, such as improved reasoning layers for agent orchestration, or scientific user interfaces that go beyond simple chat interactions
Develop agents capable of building other tools/agents by mining scientific knowledge and workflows from raw data and create scalable automation
Train underlying LLMs using techniques like reinforcement learning to equip them with the knowledge and mindset of scientists
Own a research topic inspired by cutting-edge GenAI usage in large-scale scientific scenarios. Examples include inventing evaluation methods for hard-to-verify scientific agent outputs, methods to orchestrate thousands of tools, or algorithms to improve agent reasoning
Own the research agenda and validate hypotheses using large-scale collections of scientific tools, agents, and scientist feedbacks
Publish your observations and innovations at top-tier venues
Qualification
Required
Must be pursuing a PhD (enrolled student)
Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Bioengineering, Statistics, Biomedical Informatics, Biochemistry, or a related technical field
Strong Python skills and experience with LLM agents and tools
A power user of LLM products and coding agents
Preferred
Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
Complements our culture and the standards that guide our daily behavior & decisions: Integrity, Courage, and Passion
Strong interest in solving problems in science, especially within drug discovery and biomedical science
Benefits
Paid holiday time off benefits
Company
Roche
Roche is a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company that offers medicines and diagnostic tests for various medical conditions and diseases.
Founded in 1896
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$7.79BKey Investors
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2021-08-04Post Ipo Equity· $5B
2020-12-07IPO
2020-05-06Post Ipo Equity· $0.5M
Leadership Team
Alan Hippe
Member of the Executive Board - Group CFO
Christine Bakan
Global Head and Group Vice President, Computational Science and Informatics R&D
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