Bioengineering Internship: Hands-On Automation Lab

Embodied AI; Lausanne; On-site; CHF 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. This internship will place you at the core of production workflows: cloning, protein expression, purification, and characterization on the systems that serve our customers every day.

You won't shadow busywork— you'll own real tasks with a senior mentor to learn from, and show tangible results from day one. We demand hands-on molecular biology experience, plus curiosity about automation and Python scripting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on molecular biology experience including PCR, cloning, and transformation.
• Experience with protein expression and purification preferred.
• Automation and scripting with Python or liquid-handling automation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Run molecular cloning and protein production end to end: PCR, assembly, transformation, expression (bacterial and/or mammalian), and purification.
• Execute and improve QC on constructs and proteins (capillary electrophoresis, sequencing, SDS-PAGE) and characterization assays (binding, expression, stability).
• Take a workflow that's flaky or slow and make it reliable and faster - better protocols, better automation, fewer failures.
• Work hands-on with liquid handlers and lab automation, and help push manual protocols toward automated ones.
• Bring rigor to your data: document precisely, track samples, and make your results reproducible and traceable.
• Diagnose failures across biology, reagents, and instruments - and fix them, not just flag them.

Skills

Molecular biology

Automation scripting (Python)

Lab automation

Data rigor

Education

Molecular Biology or related field

Tools

PCR

Cloning

Protein expression

Transformation

SDS-PAGE

Capillary electrophoresis

Sequencing

Job description

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. This internship will place you at the core of production workflows: cloning, protein expression, purification, and characterization on the systems that serve our customers every day.

You won't shadow busywork— you'll own real tasks with a senior mentor to learn from, and show tangible results from day one. We demand hands-on molecular biology experience, plus curiosity about automation and Python scripting.