Description

Boehringer Ingelheim is currently seeking a talented and innovative Intern to join our Material and Analytical Sciences department located at our Ridgefield facility. As an Intern, you will be working in a dynamic environment to develop a workflow on the identification of optimal critical quality attributes of tablets for desired drug product performance based on mechanistic modeling of processes.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheims high regard for our employees.

Duties & Responsibilities

He/she will be involved in developing dissolution kinetics-based mechanistic model of tablet drug products.
Establish correlations between material property and model tuning parameters.
Develop new insights and summarize findings for department seminar.

Requirements

Must be a current undergraduate, graduate or advanced degree student in good academic standing within Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics or relevant discipline.
Student must be enrolled at a college or university for the duration of the internship
Overall cumulative minimum GPA from last completed quarter/semester 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) preferred
Major or minor in related field of internship
Undergraduate students must have completed at least 12 credit hours at current college or university
Graduate and Advanced Degree students must have completed at least 9 credit hours at current college or university

Desired Experience, Skills and Abilities:

Fluency in coding using Python or Matlab is required.
Prior knowledge of image processing is preferred.
Experience in transport/kinetic/thermodynamic modeling is a plus.

Compensation Data

This position offers an hourly rate of $20.00 - $33.00 USD / hr. commensurate to the level of degree program in which an applicant is actively enrolled. For an overview of our benefits please click here.

Eligibility Requirements

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required)
Must be 18 years of age or older