Internship in Advancing Drug Development for Ophthalmology with multimodal LLMs (m/f/d)

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The Position

Your Project

We are at the forefront of building and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) to use in clinical and preclinical studies. We want to create medicines that have a greater impact on society in a faster and more efficient way. The goal of this project is to accelerate the setup of clinical trials by improving the trial process and therefore bringing medicine faster to patients.

You will join our team and support the ophthalmology LLM project, working together to develop an ophthalmology focused LLM. This is a research project, meaning we will discover what works (& what doesn’t) together. 

Your Tasks

• Support and take ownership of key parts of the ophthalmology project.

• Champion the preprocessing of ophthalmology clinical trial data into multimodal LLM ready datasets, including imaging and electronic health record data.

• As part of a global team, pretrain & fine-tune multimodal LLMs.

• Evaluate the performance of LLMs against benchmarks.

• Support the publication writing process.

Your Profile

• Enrolled in a master’s program in data science, computer science, bioinformatics, or related field, with experience in R or Python, applied to data processing & machine learning.

• Team player with great communication skills.

• Strong interest in research and development (R&D), as well as willingness to learn and adapt quickly.

• You are proficient in English and not afraid of talking

Your Benefits

• 2092 € salary per month for a full-time internship > 3 months

• The possibility of accommodation in the Roche Boarding House or convenient transport connections to Munich with the Roche Shuttle

• Join a cutting edge, global team spanning multiple R&D units.

• Gain experience in drug discovery and development at a world leading pharmaceutical company.

• If the project is successful, co-authorship on any resulting publications.

• 6 months full-time, paid internship (length and start date negotiable), hybrid (i.e. with home office part-time option) at the Penzberg (Munich area) office.

Your Application

Please upload your Curriculum vitae specific to this position. 

Keep in mind that this internship is only directed at students (m/f/d) who are currently enrolled at university.

Start

As of March 2025 or according to agreement for a period of 6 months

We encourage you to apply, even if you do not fit all the requirements.

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Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche at Penzberg, near Munich, employs more than 7,000 people. The site is one of the largest biotechnology centers in Europe and the only Roche site with research, development and production for both Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics under one roof. From your beginning with Roche, our motivated team will welcome and support you. Numerous opportunities for personal development, flexible work hours, attractive compensation packages and special family assistance programs are available.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.