2025 Summer Intern - Systems Engineering

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The Position

2025 Summer Intern - Systems Engineering

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Department Summary:

GenMark Diagnostics (a member of the Roche Group) is a leading provider of multiplex molecular diagnostic solutions designed to enhance patient care, improve key quality metrics, and reduce the total cost-of-care. GenMark’s cobas® eplex: The True Sample-to-Answer Solution™ is designed to optimize laboratory efficiency and address a broad range of infectious disease testing needs, including respiratory and bloodstream infections.

GenMark’s Systems Engineering team focuses on complex challenges where hardware, electrical, software and consumable development meet for state of the art multiplex molecular diagnostic solutions. The primary responsibilities of this role will include driving key studies for the success of our products while developing technical and theoretical understandings important for new product development and product improvement. With guidance, you will analyze and brainstorm approaches to solve problems and find solutions. 

This internship position is located in Carlsbad California, on-site.  

The Opportunity:

• Designing experimental approaches and protocols

• Conducting and monitoring laboratory experiments

• Analyzing experimental results and data 

Program Highlights:

• Intensive 12-weeks, 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) 

Required Education: You meet one of the following criteria:

- Must be pursuing a Bachelor's Degree (enrolled student).

- Must be pursuing a Master's Degree (enrolled student).

- Must be pursuing a PhD (enrolled student).

Preferred Majors: 

- Systems Engineering

- Biomedical Engineering / Bioengineering

- Any other engineering or scientific major

Preferred skills: 

• Engineering background

• Experience working in a laboratory environment

• Equipment troubleshooting

• Engineering problem solving

• Data analysis

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.

• Courses or experience in a laboratory setting.

• Courses or experience in experimental design.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting. 

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of  STATE is $22.00-$43.00 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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Who we are

GenMark is now a proud member of the Roche Group, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare.  As a global leader in healthcare, Roche Diagnostics offers a broad portfolio of products, tools and services that help in the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases like HPV, HIV, hepatitis and diabetes as well as other medical conditions, such as fertility and blood coagulation. With the addition of GenMark to the Roche Group, syndromic infectious disease diagnostics is now added to the long list of disease states and conditions that the Roche Group addresses.  GenMark’s ePlex true sample-to-answer system offers unique solutions to address the most significant challenges facing clinical laboratories, while supporting hospital systems to deliver patient-centered, value-based care. ePlex streamlines the diagnostic workflow from physician order entry to the final test report and is the true sample-to-answer solution designed to improve patient care, reduce costs, and increase lab efficiency. GenMark is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

GenMark is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.