Internship for Students of Industrial Design (starting in March 2025) - RAIR

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The Position

Immerse yourself in the fascinating everyday working life at Roche Diagnostics surrounded by beautiful mountains, not far from the scenic Lake Zug and yet close to the cities of Zug, Zurich and Lucerne. Here, where we have been rooted for over 50 years, we develop and produce diagnostic solutions and help to find answers to health questions.

The Rotkreuz site, where a wide variety of disciplines work hand in hand, is a meeting place for over 2,700 talented employees from 70 different nations. Our campus invites people to work together, be creative and realise their full potential. We believe that a positive work environment, employee satisfaction, inclusion and sustainability are key to growing together and improving the lives of patients around the world. Welcome to Roche in Rotkreuz.

Embark on a transformative learning experience with Roche Diagnostics through our Aligned Internship Program in Rotkreuz. Designed to nurture emerging talent, this program offers a dynamic and immersive opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the field of diagnostics, fostering personal and professional growth.

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We are looking for a collaborative and inspiring individual to join our diverse, interdisciplinary and international Customer Experience and Solution Design (CXSD) Chapter of more than 50 designers. The CXSD team is supporting all business areas with four main sub-chapters: CX research & strategy, Digital Design & User Testing Services, Portfolio solution integration and Physical & Sustainable Design.

This internship will be within the Physical and Sustainable Design sub-chapter that drives the global industrial and sustainable design, User Experience Standards, guidelines & best practices to accelerate customer experience.

Consequently, our fields of expertise are: end-to-end development of medical devices and packaging.

This internship position is located in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, hybrid (some on site presence to be expected, given the content of the work, you will need to relocate in a reasonable commuting distance).

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to more senior industrial designers within multiple project teams in matters of industrial design, design research and low- to high-fidelity hardware prototyping

• Create innovative concepts using both 2D and 3D design tools (SolidWorks and Keyshot), visualizing solutions, and collaborating with engineers and external partners.

• Plan, prepare and execute usability evaluations on hardware mockups

Who You Are

You are enrolled or have completed your Bachelor’s or Master’s studies at a university, preferably in the field of industrial design after February 2024 and are interested in applying your knowledge in a modern working environment as part of an internship.

Furthermore you are

• A passionate hands-on industrial designer eager to: learn and grow from a context like our CXSD department working across various functions and geographies and Roche as a healthcare and diagnostics corporation.

• An empathic and interdisciplinary collaborator, able to work effectively alongside design colleagues, R&D engineers, and stakeholders.

• Able to sketch and create quick paper mockups, followed by more complex ones in collaboration with the team.

• Good knowledge of SolidWorks and Keyshot (experience with the animation feature is a plus).

• Model making capabilities, quick mockups, basic 3d printing and good command of sketching.

• You have a portfolio (pdf or website) that showcases all the above.

Technical details:

The start date for the internship is March 2025 with a duration of 12 months.

Part-time employment is not possible.

It is not possible to write a thesis during the internship.

The application deadline is November 11th. Interviews will take place in late November and early December.

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.