Intern, Molecular Biology

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. </strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation.</p><h2>About the Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is an internship for an exceptional molecular biologist who wants to do the most serious work of their life so far. You won't shadow people or run busywork — you'll own real production workflows: cloning, protein expression, purification, and characterization, on the systems that serve our customers every day.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We run a high-throughput, heavily automated lab, and we hold interns to the same bar as the rest of the team. We'll give you hard problems and a senior person to learn from, and expect you to make a real dent. For us, an internship is also the best way to find people we want to keep — do great work, and we'll want to bring you on full-time afterwards.</p><h2>What You'll Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Run molecular cloning and protein production end to end: PCR, assembly, transformation, expression (bacterial and/or mammalian), and purification.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Execute and improve QC on constructs and proteins (capillary electrophoresis, sequencing, SDS-PAGE) and characterization assays (binding, expression, stability).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take a workflow that's flaky or slow and make it reliable and faster — better protocols, better automation, fewer failures.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work hands-on with liquid handlers and lab automation, and help push manual protocols toward automated ones.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Bring rigor to your data: document precisely, track samples, and make your results reproducible and traceable.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Diagnose failures across biology, reagents, and instruments — and fix them, not just flag them.</p></li></ul><h2>What We're Looking For</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Strong hands already.</strong> You've done real molecular biology — PCR, cloning, transformation, electrophoresis, ideally protein expression and purification — through research, a project, or a prior internship, and you're good at it. Protocols don't intimidate you.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>BSc / MSc student or recent graduate</strong> in molecular biology, biochemistry, or a relevant field.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Automation- and software-curious.</strong> You'd rather automate a tedious step than repeat it 200 times. Comfort with scripting (Python) or liquid-handling automation is a strong plus.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Self-starter.</strong> You see what needs doing and do it, without waiting for someone to hand you the next step.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>AI-native.</strong> It's 2026 — you use AI tools as a default to learn faster and work smarter.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>High standards and high drive.</strong> You care that the experiment is right, you move fast, and you're excited that the robots run real customer experiments.</p></li></ul><h2>Details</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Location:</strong> Lausanne, Switzerland (on-site)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Type:</strong> Full time</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Start date:</strong> Flexible</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Duration:</strong> Minimum 6 months</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Application deadline</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are reviewing applicants on a rolling basis.</p><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.ch/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Switzerland</a> on Arbeitnow</a>