Adaptyv
Intern, Create Value
1mo ago
EuropeTrainee
Internship role to work on automated lab systems integrating AI-driven biology experiments.
Responsibilities
- This is an internship for an exceptional student or early-career builder — your shot to do the most serious work of your life so far, on a small team where interns own real problems.
- Building an automated lab throws off an endless stream of problems, and they don't respect job titles. One week it's a gnarly data pipeline, the next a misbehaving instrument, a model that needs evaluating, or a supplier bottleneck blocking production. We'll point you at the ones that fit you, give you a senior person to learn from, and expect you to make a real dent. The goal is simple: create obvious, measurable value. Do that, and this doesn't have to end as an internship — if you're good, you stay.
Requirements
- A student or recent grad — or someone early in their path who hasn't found the right box yet. This is explicitly an early-career role.
- Show us something you've built. A project, repo, paper, hack, side business, competition win — proof you make things and don't wait for permission. A strong application leads with this, not with your transcript.
- Quick on your feet. You walk into an unfamiliar problem, work out what matters, and start making progress on your own.
- A fast learner who's genuinely generalist. You pick up new domains quickly and aren't precious about which kind of problem you work on.
- AI-native. It's 2026 — you build with coding agents like Claude Code as a default and get far more done because of it.
- High energy, high agency. You see what needs doing and do it.
- When you apply, lead with the single most impressive thing you've built so far and a link to it.
Other
- Adaptyv is building an automated lab thats let AI agents run biology experiments.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation.
- Depending on where you're strongest and where we need you, any of:
- Software / ML — internal tools, data pipelines, automation scripts, model evaluation, agents.
- Lab automation — getting instruments talking, debugging work cells, building hardware glue.
- Biology — hands-on in the lab, supporting and improving production workflows.
- Operations / logistics — untangling supplier, inventory, or process bottlenecks.
- You'll go deep on one or two of these — not all. We care that you're excited the list is this wide and that you learn new domains fast.
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland (on-site)
- Type: Internship
- Start date: Flexible
- We review applications on a rolling basis.
- We are reviewing applicants on a rolling basis.