Novartis Internships

Novartis internships place students inside global drug development, from Basel research labs to manufacturing and data-science hubs in Slovenia, Ireland, India and the USA, with paid placements of three to twelve months. Interns work under pharma-grade standards on real programs, with structured mentoring and strong conversion into early-career roles.

Positions post continuously on the careers portal, with Basel research roles clustering in winter for summer starts. The Basel campus places interns inside Europe’s densest life-science cluster, directly alongside Roche and dozens of biotechs.

• Students and recent graduates in life sciences, chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, biotechnology, data science, engineering and business.
• Bachelor's, master's and PhD levels all find tracks, from lab research to digital, manufacturing and commercial roles.
• Basel research internships often target advanced students, while sites like Slovenia, Ireland and Hyderabad hire broad cohorts.
• Work authorization per site; Swiss roles usually support permits for enrolled students under internship agreements.
• Relevant technical skills, from cell culture and analytics to statistics and programming.
• English fluency across sites, with local languages a plus.

• Work inside one of the world's largest medicine developers on real programs across research, development, manufacturing, data science and commercial functions.
• Join the Basel campus ecosystem or major hubs like Ljubljana, Dublin and Hyderabad.
• Contribute to lab experiments, clinical-trial support, process engineering or analytics depending on the role.
• Operate under pharma-grade quality and documentation standards, a skill set in itself.
• Work with mentors and structured intern programming.
• Deliver defined outputs feeding theses or first publications where applicable.

• Paid internships across sites, with Swiss placements notably well compensated.
• Experience inside global drug development, from bench to patient.
• Basel's cross-border life-science cluster with Roche and dozens of biotechs next door.
• Structured university-partnership and scholar programs at several sites.
• Strong conversion into graduate programs and early-career roles.
• A pharma CV brand recognized worldwide.

• Search the Novartis careers portal for internships filtered by location and function.
• Roles post continuously; Basel summer research roles cluster in winter postings while global sites publish year-round.
• Apply with CV, transcripts and role-specific motivation, noting available months.
• Interviews run with hiring teams, sometimes with technical exercises.
• Offers set site, duration (three to twelve months) and permit steps where needed.
• PhD-adjacent candidates can also watch Novartis' postdoc and scholar tracks on the same portal.