2026 Summer Intern - Structure & Simulation, Prescient Design

Roche • South San Francisco, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Structure & Simulation team within Prescient Design seeks exceptional graduate student interns with a demonstrated research background in machine learning and/or protein design and a passion for independent research and demonstrated ability to execute on innovative ideas. This on-site/in-person internship position is located in South San Francisco, CA. The Opportunity Participate in cutting-edge research in representation learning for protein design, particularly in developing novel representations of protein structures that unlock new ability on downstream tasks relevant to drug discovery. Prepare a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal and/or conference.

Requirements

• Must be pursuing a Ph.D. (enrolled student).
• Computer Science, Physics, Biophysics, Bioinformatics, Applied Math, or related technical fields.
• Excellent and proactive communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong publication record and experience contributing to research communities, such as conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, etc.
• Strong software development skills in Python.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Complements our culture and the standards that guide our daily behavior & decisions: Integrity, Courage, and Passion.
• Prior experience in machine learning for protein design, particularly having worked with protein structures, is a plus but not required.
• Experience in representation learning, graph neural networks, computer vision (specifically in neural representations) is also a plus
• A track record of maintaining or contributing to open-source projects for research

Responsibilities

• Participate in cutting-edge research in representation learning for protein design, particularly in developing novel representations of protein structures that unlock new ability on downstream tasks relevant to drug discovery.
• Prepare a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal and/or conference.

Benefits

• Intensive 12-weeks, full-time (40 hours per week) paid internship.
• Program start dates are in May/June (Summer)
• A stipend, based on location, will be provided to help alleviate costs associated with the internship.
• Ownership of challenging and impactful business-critical projects.
• Work with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.
• paid holiday time off benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees