2026 Summer Intern - Product Technical Development - Digital Sciences Focus

2026 Summer Intern - Product Technical Development - Digital Sciences Focus

To Apply:

• As a second attachment (apart from your CV), please include a cover letter (not to exceed 1 page in length) that addresses the following questions:

  • What strengths are you most proud of that you will bring to your role as an intern at Genentech?

  • How does interning at Genentech fit in with your long term career goals?

  • Please describe a unique situation in either your academic, personal, or career areas of your life in which you took initiative that had a meaningful impact on either your school, community, or an organization.

Department Summary

Pharmaceutical Technical Development (PTDU) develops, delivers, and supports robust, cost-effective production methods and technologies for innovative therapeutics to meet the needs of Genentech’s Research, Development, Commercial, and Product Operations groups. The group has long been recognized as a world leader in developing large-scale manufacturing processes, sophisticated analytical methods, and effective drug delivery systems.

This internship position is located in South San Francisco, on-site.

Program Highlights

• Six Months (with a possible 6-month extension), full-time, (40 hours per week) paid internship.

• Program start dates are in May/June 2026.

• 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.

• Final presentations of project work to senior leaders.

• Lead or participate in intern committees to design and coordinate program events and initiatives.

• Professional & personal development curriculum throughout the program, including networking opportunities, workshops, and panel discussions.

• Participate in volunteer projects, social events, and team-building activities.

The Opportunity

As a Technical Development Intern, Digital Sciences focus, you may be assigned a project in one of the following areas within PTDUP:

• Cell Culture and Fermentation Development

• Purification Development

• Protein Analytical Chemistry

• Analytical Operations

• Pharmaceutical Development

• Drug Delivery Technology Development

• Device Development

• Pilot Plant Operations

• Process Development Engineering

• Potency Assay Development

• Cell and Gene Therapies

• Digital Sciences

• Clinical Supply Center 

Candidates applying for the PTDU Intern Program should be passionate about science/engineering and thoroughly enjoy the challenges associated with complex problem-solving. Candidates must be highly self-motivated and able to work effectively as individuals and as part of multi-disciplinary teams in an atmosphere of casual intensity to develop medicines for unmet medical needs.
 

As a Digital Sciences intern, you can expect to leverage your programming skills to contribute to digital projects, such as full-stack software applications and data science models, that will make an impact across the entire PTD organization. These projects are often aimed to enable greater insights from data, more innovative drug development, and faster delivery of medicines to patients. Previous internship projects have included but are not limited to:

• Developing an interactive, web-based tool that visualizes an antibody sequence and highlights notable characteristics of its constituent residues.

• Synthetic lipid modeling with in-silico simulations.

• Creation and implementation of information databases and electronic laboratory notebook schemas.

• In-silico protein stability studies.

Who You Are

Required Education

You meet one of the following criteria:

• Must be pursuing a Bachelor's degree (enrolled stu