Adaptyv
Internship Bioengineering / Molecular Biology
1mo ago
EuropeTraineecloningprotein expressionpurificationcharacterization
Internship role focused on molecular biology involving cloning, protein expression, purification, and characterization in an AI-driven automated lab environment.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Strong hands already. 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.
- Studying or recently graduated in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Life Science Engineering, or a related field.
- Automation- and software-curious. You'd rather automate a tedious step than repeat it 200 times. Comfort with scripting (Python) or liquid-handling automation is a strong plus.
- Self-starter. You see what needs doing and do it, without waiting for someone to hand you the next step.
- AI-native. It's 2026 — you use AI tools as a default to learn faster and work smarter.
- High standards and high drive. You care that the experiment is right, you move fast, and you're excited that the robots run real customer experiments.
- When you apply, tell us about the most impressive thing you've done in the lab so far — a project, a result, a process you improved.
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.
- 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.