Vertex Spring 2025 Co-op, Engineering (Boston, MA)

Job Description

The Vertex Co-op Program offers students the opportunity to learn about the pharmaceutical industry from a hands-on perspective. You will be working closely with and learning from some of the brightest people in the industry. When you join our co-op program you should not be surprised to see that our environment is one that is innovative and team oriented, where collaboration is not just a word, and "we are relentless" is in everything we do. Students can expect to be challenged by their project plan, connect with other co-ops,and feel valued by the Vertex community. Not only will co-ops learn about their day-to-day tasks through their specific work assignments, but they will interact and have exposure to our organizational leaders and their teams.

Becoming an Engineering Co-op at Vertex will give you a panoramic view of how the industry works, how decisions are made, how pipelines are built and progressed and how important your professional networks, connections and collaborations will be in defining your longer-term career experience. Our mission is to tackle serious diseases and to change lives, for the better, for the future. Our aim is to give you the skills, insights and career guidance to be an important part of that future. To turn your potential into progression. To turn possibilities into reality. To turn your ambition into a clear, defined career path.

Join us and help kick start the path to your career!

We will have various positions within our functional areas, including but not limited to:

• Analytical Development: Analytical Development (AD) creates the investigational techniques critical to interrogating the physical and chemical characteristics of our medicines which are central to their quality, safety, and performance. AD develops and validates core analytical tests which leverage expertise rooted in various spectroscopic, chromatographic, and sold state characterization techniques.
• Downstream Process Development: The position will provide opportunities to take ownership of an internship project and contribute to the development of commercially relevant manufacturing processes. The candidate will be provided opportunities to develop skills including chromatography, filtration, study design & statistical analysis, and process scale up. The successful candidate will enjoy working in a high-energy, collaborative, and technical environment.
• Technical Operations: You will have the opportunity to work in a data-rich pharmaceutical commercial manufacturing environment, to develop modeling for process analytical technology (PAT), to provide solutions to urgent issues in analytical method life-cycle management, and/or advance key product and process understanding.
• Vector Core You will learn bioprocessing of viral vectors and assist scientific staff in the process development and production of viral vectors, to deliver AAV materials to support programs across the Vertex Cell and Genetic Therapies (VCGT) portfolio of programs.

Qualifications:

• Majors in the following backgrounds: Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biology with heavy automation work, or a related field of study.
• Permanent legal authorization to work in the United States
• Candidate must be enrolled in an advanced degree program if graduating before May 2025
• Candidate must be available to work full-time, 40 hours per week from January - June 2025

Program Dates: January - June 2025, Full Time

DEADLINE TO APPLY: October 25, 2024

This job posting is for a temporary role with a third-party agency partner that provides services to Vertex. The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of that third-party agency; compensation, medical benefits, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment shall be presented by the third-party agency upon offer.

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