Varda Space
Pharmaceutical Lab Internship (Crystallization) Summer 2027
El Segundo, California, United States · Internship · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- At least 3 months of basic laboratory experience outside of a classroom.
- Education
- Currently enrolled in an accredited bachelor's or graduate degree program in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, or similar physical and life sciences or engineering degrees.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person permitted to access the company’s export-controlled technology without an export license: U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident, or protected individual admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Support pharmaceutical R&D by screening, analyzing, and scaling protein crystallization processes in an on-site summer internship.
What you'll do
- Purify proteins and protein complexes and assess purity, charge variants, and integrity using laboratory techniques.
- Characterize protein candidates and conduct, optimize, and scale up crystallization processes.
- Report experimental findings to the broader R&D team.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in an accredited bachelor's or graduate degree program in a relevant science or engineering field, or similar physical or life sciences or engineering degree.
- At least 3 months of laboratory experience outside a classroom, including safe chemical handling, PPE use, and maintaining a lab notebook.
- Demonstrated hands-on ability to execute experiments in a laboratory.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical crystallization, protein formulation, biologics drug product development, or protein biochemistry.
- Exposure to programming or data analysis, or familiarity with biophysical characterization techniques such as DLS, nanoDSF, SEC, CD, or capillary electrophoresis.
Pay
$33.00 USD per hour (hourly rate)
Tools
SDS-PAGE, capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF), Python, DLS, nanoDSF, SEC, CD, capillary electrophoresis
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