2025 Summer Intern- Digital Health

2025 Summer Intern - Early Clinical Development Informatics, Digital Transformation Office

Department Summary

Digital health technologies such as wearable or proximal sensors are increasingly being used to enhance the drug development process through the collection of high-fidelity patient data. These innovations may bring increased efficiency to clinical trials, but succeeding in this integration requires careful evaluation, testing, and deployment to best support clinical development.

In this role you will join the gRED Digital Transformation Office's digital health group to develop and deploy patient-facing technologies to streamline drug development. You will meet with Clinical Science, Operations, Informatics, and Analytics stakeholders to understand the disease measurement needs to evaluate the efficacy and safety of novel drugs. You will support the development and deployment of these technologies within the clinical trial ecosystem.

You will gain hands-on experience in the day-to-day activities within ECD (Early Clinical Development), while also obtaining a high-level understanding of the execution of clinical trials needed to bring drugs to patients. You will also have an opportunity to get exposure to a range of cross-functional disciplines and across multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, metabolism, infectious disease, and others.

Example areas of focus include: technology evaluation and deployment planning, deployment in interventional clinical trials, generating study documents, and study protocol writing.

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

The Opportunity

• Develop or contribute to the deployment of high impact digital health technologies that support endpoint development in Genentech early clinical development trials.

• Work seamlessly with a lean cross-functional team across Early Clinical Development and potentially beyond with other Roche digital health functions.

• Interview and interact with internal and external key stakeholders, synthesizing themes, pain points and opportunities

• Present your internship project and learnings in one of our internal forums

Program Highlights

• Intensive 6 months 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.

Who You Are

Required Education:

• Must have attained a Bachelor's Degree

Required Majors: Life sciences, clinical research/trials, & hardware product development or engineering, including human factors

Required Skills:

• Previous experience or familiarity with drug development trials, especially early phase trials

• Knowledge of digital health technologies and their underlying hardware and software componentry, especially remote monitoring including vital signs or virtual reality systems

• Excellent problem-solving abilities -- able to articulate a problem statement when processes may be complex and/or ambiguous

• The ability to work independently and proactively with minimal guidance

• Highly skilled in interpersonal communication, writing, and presentation skills; including persuasion and influence

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Qualifications

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

• Complements our culture and the standards that guide our daily behavior & decisions: Integrity, Courage, and Passion.

• Experience in the general healthcare sector -- possibly in a hospital, clinic, insurance or health-tech startup

• Familiarity with Design Thinking, Agile, or Lean methodologies

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $45/hour. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position also qualifies for paid holiday time off benefits.

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