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The Position

We are looking for a collaborative and inspiring individual to join our diverse, interdisciplinary and international Customer Experience and Solution Design (CXSD) Chapter of more than 50 designers. The CXSD team is supporting all business areas with four main sub-chapters: CX research & strategy, Digital Design & User Testing Services, Portfolio solution integration and Physical & Sustainable Design.

This internship will be within the Physical and Sustainable Design sub-chapter that drives the global industrial and sustainable design, User Experience Standards, guidelines & best practices to accelerate customer experience. Consequently, our fields of expertise are: end-to-end development of medical devices and packaging.

Your key responsibilities would include:

Providing support to more senior industrial designers within multiple project teams in matters of industrial design, packaging, design research and low- to high-fidelity hardware prototyping (incl. 3D printing).

Creating innovative concepts using both 2D and 3D design tools (SolidWorks, KeyShot and Vizcom), visualizing solutions, and collaborating with engineers and external partners.

Planning, preparing and executing usability evaluations on hardware mockups.

Who You Are

You are enrolled or have completed your Bachelor’s or Master’s studies at a university within the past 12 months, preferably in the field of industrial design and are interested in applying your knowledge in a modern working environment as part of an internship.

Furthermore, you are…

A passionate hands-on industrial designer who is eager to learn and grow from a context like our CXSD department working across various functions and geographies and Roche as a healthcare and diagnostics corporation. 

An empathic and interdisciplinary collaborator, able to work effectively alongside design colleagues, R&D engineers, and stakeholders.

Able to sketch and create quick paper mockups, followed by more complex ones in collaboration with the team.

Proficient in SolidWorks and KeyShot (experience with the animation feature is a plus).

Model making capabilities, quick mockups, basic 3d printing and good command of sketching.

Able to demonstrate all of the above through a portfolio (PDF or website).

Additional Information

Please upload your CV and your portfolio when applying; a cover letter is optional.

This internship position is located in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, hybrid (on-site presence to be expected, given the content of the work, you will need to relocate to a reasonable commuting distance). 

This is a 12-month, full-time internship. Please be aware that we are unable to offer part-time employment for this role.

It is not possible to write a thesis during the internship.

Ready to take the next step? We'd love to hear from you. Apply now to explore this exciting opportunity!

 

 

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.