Internship at Visienco in Life Science Engineering (F/M/D)

Facing the challenges of our time

Help us grow and be more impactful!

 

Your mission

We are Visienco, a dynamic biotech start-up emerging from the Swiss research center CSEM. Our mission is to revolutionize drug development by using organoids as an alternative to animal testing. We are at the forefront of innovation, combining cutting-edge technology with a passion for creating impactful solutions. We are seeking a motivated Intern to join our multidisciplinary team. In this role, you will bridge laboratory environment, data infrastructure engineering, and software development by supporting both experimental workflows and computational infrastructure. You will contribute to designing and implementing data infrastructure for imaging experiments, while also gaining hands-on experience with laboratory experiments such as pipetting and dataset acquisition.

 

This internship is ideal for a student or early-career researcher interested in combining software engineering with laboratory experimentation and data visualization to accelerate life science discovery.

Your responsibilities

We are looking for an intern to support us in:

• Design and implement a database schema to store imaging and experiment results.
• Develop a backend service to process, aggregate, and expose imaging data via APIs.
• Build a user-friendly frontend interface to visualize summarized results and key metrics.
• Perform imaging and pipetting experiments, acquire datasets.

Your profile

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Familiarity with databases (SQL or NoSQL).
• Understanding of RESTful APIs or GraphQL.
• Ability to quickly learn domain-specific concepts and collaborate across disciplines.
• Experience in planning and executing laboratory experiments

Nice-to-have

• Programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar of advantage
• Experience with web frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, or Angular) and backend frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Node.js, or Express).
• Experience with data visualization libraries (e.g., D3.js, Plotly, Chart.js).
• Exposure to scientific imaging data or life sciences applications.
• Interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work independently and take initiative.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

CSEM mission and values

Our mission is the development and transfer of innovative technologies to the Swiss industry. Our objective is to make an impact on our customers and on society at large in the fields of precision manufacturing, digital technologies and sustainable energy. Our strength is the excellence of our people, about 650 passionate specialists dedicated to innovation and technology transfer. We believe that strong values support the successful development of our organization as well as the harmonious and balanced development of all our employees.

We are

• A unique place between research and industry at the cutting edge of new technologies
• An innovative, non-profit, and employee-driven company
• A dynamic, multidisciplinary, and multicultural environment
• A solar team focused on enabling solutions to energy challenges for a sustainable world

Working@CSEM means

• being part of a passionate community
• incredible flexibility, attractive working conditions, and great opportunities of development
• benefit from a management style based on trust & feedback and that favors a work-life balance

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.
We look forward to receiving your complete application file via (CV, cover letter, certificates & diplomas) our job page. Preference will be given to professionals applying directly.