RA Capital

Summary:

Vaxcyte’s Summer Internship program offers students with an opportunity to gain valuable work experience that complements their college curriculum with relevant hands-on work that can shape their future career pathing and interests.

As a Conjugation Development Intern for Vaxcyte, you will work on a project as outlined below:

• Assist with experimental studies to understand how process inputs influence conjugation workflows and downstream processing.
• Generate and organize analytical data for predefined quality attributes and contribute to summary slides or short write-ups of results and learnings.
• Provide general lab and project support to the team by preparing materials, maintaining documentation, and helping execute planned experiments on schedule.

The Intern will learn and practice:

• Conjugation techniques that enable protein-polysaccharide vaccine development.
• Application of Design of Experiments in a CMC/process development setting.
• How to interpret analytical results and use data-driven decision making to evaluate process impacts.

Program Details:

The Internship will begin in June and will be around 10 weeks (8 hours per day) in duration at our San Carlos, California location.

Requirements:

• Currently pursuing a BS or MS degree in Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or a related discipline; enrolled student with at least 2 years of university coursework completed.
• Prior wet-lab experience strongly preferred, including accurate pipetting, solution preparation, and basic documentation practices.
• Enthusiastic and curious to learn about bioconjugate development.
• Strong attention to detail and work quality.
• Demonstrates collaboration and teamwork.