Interaction Designer (UX/UI/Electronics) Internship

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

The CXSD (Customer Experience and Solution Design) team at Roche Diagnostics is seeking a passionate Product Designer Intern. The ideal candidate will possess knowledge of Graphical User Interface Design and experience with electronics integration in physical products (e.g., Arduino/Electronics).

As an Interaction Designer Intern, you will support product design teams on different projects and design tasks. You will learn how senior designers translate business/technical requirements and user needs into design decisions. You will experience how to navigate and apply a complex design system to Graphical User Interfaces. You will grasp how to design for customer centricity by validating your design output through continuous user testing.

Last but not least, you will be part of a design team of more than 80 professionals who aim to transform the healthcare industry for the better.

The Opportunity

• Working on projects with focus on making healthcare professionals work life more safe and easy

• Building and orchestrating user experiences beyond screens

• Being involved in ideating, building, iterating and preparing user experiences until hand-over stage for engineers to integrate it in a product

• Support usability testings with planning, preparation, conducting and analyzing activities

• Learn how to involve different persons from business roles to engineering to test participants and more to build the best UX ever

• Building software and Arduino prototypes

• Integrate electronics for human  interaction and machine feedback into medium-high-ultra fidelity physical prototypes/mockups

• Joining a highly motivated and very kind team

• There will be at least one business trip to Germany

Who You Are

• EU/EFTA Students: You are currently enrolled in your Bachelor's studies or a Master’s program in Computer Science, UX design, Human Computer Interaction Design, visual design or technical science or similar 

• Non-EU/EFTA students: Due to regulations, you have to provide a certificate from the university stating that an internship is mandatory and upload it together with your application documents. Furthermore, you have to be enrolled during the entire internship period.

• You have experience with Figma (showcasing a project is required)

• You have experience with Arduino and processing (showcasing a project is required)

• You have skills in design for User Experience, User Interfaces and User Interaction with hardware and software projects, 

• You are fluent in English

Additional Information

• The internship will take place in Rotkreuz, Switzerland.

• The preferred start date of the internship is August 2026 or upon availability for 12 months.

• Part-time employment is not possible. 

• This internship is not suitable for a Master's thesis.

• We are looking forward to receiving your portfolio and CV. 

Ready to take the next step? We'd love to hear from you. Apply now to explore this exciting opportunity!

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.