2025 Summer Internship - Information Security

Kyowa Kirin is a fast-growing global specialty pharmaceutical company that applies state-of-the-art biotechnologies to discover and deliver novel medicines in four disease areas: bone and mineral; intractable hematologic; hematology oncology; and rare disease.  A Japan-based company, our goal is to make people smile by delivering breakthroughs where no adequate treatments currently exist, working from drug discovery to product development and commercialization. In North America, we are headquartered in Princeton, NJ, with offices in California, Massachusetts, and Ontario.

Information Security Internship

We are looking for talented, highly motivated university students for our Information Security team to help increase the security presence at Kyowa Kirin North America (KKNA). Our future talent will be coming in as Information Security Engineers, Risk Managers, Program Managers and Technology Program Managers in training. You will wear many hats as you jump in a fast-paced environment and produce results. Sec Departments: IT Governance Risk & Compliance, Security Engineering, Detection & Incident Response, Security Intelligence/IP Loss Prevention, or IT Business Partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide security monitoring and incident response services supporting the mission to protect KKNA’s assets, infrastructure, and data
• Assist in IT compliance & vendor risk assessment process to determine scoping for financial relevant systems
• Partner with team to perform IT walk-throughs to provide understanding of IT controls with other business units
• Partner alongside team members to draft InfoSec policies and build accompanying roll-out plans for technical implementation
• Document and formalize processes into KKNA’s Standards that can be applied globally in our Information Security Standardization process
• Build dashboards to capture and present OKRs and KPIs across the teams to report-out progress
• Build and structure internal communication sites to better educate our partners across our company of who we are and what we do
• Identify additional areas of opportunity and means for knowledge sharing practices across teams
• Effectively communicate through Microsoft 365 suite such as OneDrive, Outlook, SharePoint, and Teams
• Familiar with NIST CSF & risk assessment framework
• Knowledgeable in different layers of security such as Network Security, Application security, Data security and policy prevention management

Minimum Qualifications:

• This position requires candidates to be a rising junior or rising senior in college/university with a major that aligns with the department: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Network Engineering, Information Security, or life sciences field
• Previous internship and/or project experience, volunteerism, leadership in clubs or societies, and participation in student athletics
• Interns are required to be able to work from May 27th, 2025 to August 15th, 2025
• The ability to work a hybrid schedule is required
• 1+ years leading or working in a team environment
• Must have good intercommunication and interpersonal skills, as well as a positive and fun attitude
• Candidates must have a minimum GPA of 3.0
• Candidates must live within a commutable distance to Princeton, NJ
• This position requires that candidates be able to work in the United States on a permanent and ongoing basis without sponsorship

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