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Pharmaceutical Formulations Intern
Zoetis
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- Pay
- about $10-$43/hr
- Where
- Kalamazoo, MI
- Apply by
- Nov 20, 2026
Before you apply
- Work authorization
- Individuals requiring sponsorship must disclose this fact.
What you'll do
- The pharmaceutical formulations intern will work closely with experienced formulation scientists, engineers, and project team members to help advance Zoetis’ innovative drug product development pipeline.
- Shadow senior colleagues to learn drug product processes, engineering controls, and testing strategies
- Design and execute excipient compatibility studies and drug product stabilities studies
- Lead experimental drug product manufacturing trials
- Independently perform basic product quality testing, such as syringability, resuspension, dose uniformity, etc.
- Participate in organizational and career learning and development opportunities.
What they want
Required
- Actively pursuing a Master’s degree, or are pre-candidacy in a doctoral degree, in fields of pharmaceutical sciences, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, or related field.
- Students pursuing a BS in these fields will be considered if there is accompanying significant relevant research experience.
- Demonstrated competency executing basic laboratory tasks independently, such as safe chemical handling, weigh/dispense, microscopy, literature searching, etc.
- Experienced with sterile injectables, including suspensions and gels.
- All applicants must possess or obtain authorization to work in the US for Zoetis.
Nice to have
- Experience with HPLC, SEM, and AI-assisted research/study design are a plus.
Pay and perks
- If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $16.00 per hour
- If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $22.00 per hour
- If the selected candidate is a student pursing a Graduate-level degree: $32.50 per hour
- If the selected candidate is a student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $36.00 per hour
Full posting
Pharmaeutical Formulations Intern
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Internship summary
The pharmaceutical formulations intern will work closely with experienced formulation scientists, engineers, and project team members to help advance Zoetis’ innovative drug product development pipeline. They will lead an independent project focused on customer-obsessed formulation design and development, and present their research and results.
Internship job duties
- Shadow senior colleagues to learn drug product processes, engineering controls, and testing strategies
- Design and execute excipient compatibility studies and drug product stabilities studies
- Lead experimental drug product manufacturing trials
- Independently perform basic product quality testing, such as syringability, resuspension, dose uniformity, etc.
- Participate in organizational and career learning and development opportunities.
Internship qualifications
· Actively pursuing a Master’s degree, or are pre-candidacy in a doctoral degree, in fields of pharmaceutical sciences, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, or related field. Students pursuing a BS in these fields will be considered if there is accompanying significant relevant research experience.
· Demonstrated competency executing basic laboratory tasks independently, such as safe chemical handling, weigh/dispense, microscopy, literature searching, etc.
· Experienced with sterile injectables, including suspensions and gels.
Experience with HPLC, SEM, and AI-assisted research/study design are a plus.
The following hourly pay rates reflect the anticipated base pay for this position:
If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $16.00 per hour
If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $22.00 per hour
If the selected candidate is a student pursing a Graduate-level degree: $32.50 per hour
If the selected candidate is a student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $36.00 per hour
The following hourly pay rates reflect the anticipated base pay for this position if a selected candidate were to be located in California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois (Chicago area), Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington (Seattle area):
Student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $17.00 per hour
Student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $24.20 per hour
Student pursing a Graduate-level degree: $36.40 per hour
Student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $40.30 per hour
Full time
Regular
Colleague
Any unsolicited resumes sent to Zoetis from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Zoetis mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Zoetis employees, or to Zoetis resume database will be considered Zoetis property. Zoetis will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.
Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.
Notice: Zoetis Recruiters will contact candidates via email from an address ending in @zoetis.com and may also initially connect with candidates through LinkedIn, including LinkedIn InMail. Zoetis does not use Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, or other web-based/generic email domains to communicate about job opportunities, interviews, or offers of employment. If you receive a recruitment-related email message claiming to be from Zoetis that does not come from @zoetis.com, please treat it as suspicious. For your security, do not reply, click links, open attachments, share personal or financial information, or send money in response to unexpected or questionable recruitment communications.
Zoetis is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status or any other protected classification. Disabled individuals are given an equal opportunity to use our online application system. We offer reasonable accommodations as an alternative if requested by an individual with a disability. Please contact Zoetis Colleague Services at zoetiscolleagueservices@zoetis.com to request an accommodation. Zoetis also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. All applicants must possess or obtain authorization to work in the US for Zoetis. Zoetis retains sole and exclusive discretion to pursue sponsorship for the acquisition or maintenance of nonimmigrant status and employment eligibility, considering factors such as availability of qualified US workers. Individuals requiring sponsorship must disclose this fact. Please note that Zoetis seeks information related to job applications from candidates for jobs in the U.S. solely via the following: (1) our company website at www.Zoetis.com/careers site, or (2) via email to/from addresses using only the Zoetis domain of “@zoetis.com”. In addition, Zoetis does not use Google Hangout for any recruitment related activities. Any solicitation or request for information related to job applications with Zoetis via any other means and/or utilizing email addresses with any other domain should be disregarded. In addition, Zoetis will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with Zoetis.
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Posted
Oct 9, 2026
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Nov 20, 2026
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