AI & Digitalisation Intern/Graduate PSD

Location: Welwyn, United Kingdom

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Location: Welwyn/UK

Duration: 12 months

FTE: ~30 - 50% to work alongside your studies.

Type: Temporary Roche Employee

In Pharma Development Strategy and Delivery (PSD), our mission is clear: to translate Roche Strategies into PD priorities and deliver our portfolio (Molecule & Molecule Enabling Programs) with excellence.

We see ourselves and our partners as a team that can only reach its full potential together. Driven by this collaborative spirit, our expertise, and an enterprise mindset, we create an environment where ideas grow and new ways of doing things are realized, accelerating the PD portfolio and delivering medicines to patients faster.

The Opportunity

The PSD functions are global teams in R&D that are looking to improve their internal activities and ways of working: increasing productivity, efficiency, and the ability of our organization to collaborate across its global organizational interfaces with groups and functions across PD.

To support our digitalization journey, we are looking for a talented and driven Digital, Agentic graduate with a passion for eliminating wasteful and mundane tasks through innovative technology. In this role, you will be instrumental in enabling our organization’s transformation to Agentic AI by building agentic solutions for our internal business challenges.

You will bridge the gap between technical data engineering and business process analysis, ensuring our internal activities operate in a seamless, automated, and data-driven ecosystem.

As part of a global team, you will collaborate with experts coming from IT and PSD contributing to build solutions that enhance the productivity of our internal tool service and support teams, while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity, privacy, and security.

This role offers a unique opportunity to gain real-world exposure to late stage drug development and bring meaningful improvements to how we do our work.

Key Responsibilities

Identify Automation Opportunities: Act as an internal consultant, interviewing/working with end users in PSD, analysing historical information/data to scope and propose potential AI tools that could streamline daily tasks.

Business Process Analysis and Requirements Gathering: Seek input from the PSD functions to pinpoint recurring operational delays or pain points where automation and AI could provide benefits. Provide a technical perspective on how challenging the solutions would be to build and maintain to inform decisions on prioritisation of use cases. Analyze, map, and define requirements for specific use cases. Partner with the PSD functions to evaluate the value and scalability of solutions before starting any building beyond proof-of-concepts

Agentic AI Solutions: Combine your technical knowledge in Agentic AI, our internal systems and data architectures, and work with business experts and IT colleagues to build and enable scalable agentic solutions.

Responsible AI & Compliance: Build and implement all solutions in line with Roche's defined AI standards, including Human-in-the-Loop design, ethical AI principles, and the use of approved technology only. Maintain strong awareness of data privacy and GxP requirements given the sensitivity of working within a pharma R&D environment, ensuring solutions are compliant, auditable, and safe to scale.

Secure & Compliant Working Practices: Follow Roche's guidelines for secrets/credential management & confidentiality when building & testing solutions, escalating any data security or privacy concerns to the lead for review.

Data Modernization: Support our digitalisation efforts by driving the standardization and migration of data from legacy systems/tools to AI-ready modern architectures for scalability and performance.

Documentation: Ensure robust documentation to ensure sufficient details of technical development and testing are available for others to pick up and use in the future.

Partner & Collaborate with the PSD AI Squad: Participate in global teams across our organization in support of digitalisation initiatives, working with PSD leaders and IT professionals to bring value to our organization at scale. Ensure transparency on progress and risks identified with the Squad and PSD leadership.

System Awareness: Develop and maintain an awareness of the Roche organization and key organizational drivers. Work within existing Roche procedures to drive progress.

Success measures / definition of done: Completion of  assigned work includes contribution and support of the AI Squad's work packages with defined concrete outcomes (e.g., 2 use cases into production") in addition to support testing/documentation on use cases.

Who you are

You are a proactive problem-solver who thrives in a multicultural environment. You are not “just” a coder; you are a "systems thinker" who understands the business impact of data and automation. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and are committed to continuous learning in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and automation, supporting our colleagues to accelerate program delivery. You are a strong communicator able to translate complex technical concepts into everyday language.

Basic Qualifications

Education: Pursuing a degree or further degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Business or Economics, Physical Sciences (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Physics) or a related technical field.

​Language: Excellent command of English (written and spoken) for effective coll