2 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, program, and troubleshoot high-throughput laboratory workflows for reliable assay execution on physical hardware.
- Build orchestration systems, hardware abstraction layers, instrument drivers, scheduling systems, and shared-resource management for unattended operation.
- Implement telemetry, logging, metrics, alerting, and software- or vision-based closed-loop error recovery.
- Maintain real-time digital representations of samples, instrument state, and reagent availability with bidirectional LIMS and ELN integration.
- Manage hardware requirements, site constraints, communication protocols, workcell integration, prototyping, and production deployment.
- Translate scientific protocols into production-grade technical architectures in collaboration with software engineers, automation scientists, hardware engineers, and research scientists.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering and physical hardware integration experience, or an equivalent advanced degree with a proven industrial automation track record.
- Proficiency in Python or C# for modular software architectures, integration frameworks, and distributed services.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, automated testing, version control, debugging, and production operations.
- Experience programming commercial liquid-handling platforms and integrating robotic arms or manipulators into automated workcells.
- Experience designing workflow orchestration and scheduling systems with shared resources, dynamic dependencies, and execution priorities.
- Experience using APIs and SDKs such as REST, gRPC, and vendor interfaces to interact with laboratory software ecosystems.
- Practical rapid-prototyping experience with CAD, 3D printing, CNC milling, or laser cutting.
- Familiarity with molecular biology, biochemistry, or wet-lab workflows.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across multidisciplinary research, software, and automation teams.
- Preferred experience with AI agents and agent evaluation, computer vision models such as OpenCV, YOLO, or SAM, AI/ML models, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, sensors, microcontrollers, embedded communication protocols, task-and-motion planning, cloud infrastructure, containerized deployment, or digital twin simulation workflows.
Benefits
- A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.
- Benefits are provided as detailed at the linked benefits information.
- Relocation benefits are not available for this opportunity.
- The expected hiring range is based on the primary location of San Francisco.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
About Roche
Roche is a Swiss healthcare company that develops and sells prescription pharmaceuticals and in vitro diagnostic systems for hospitals, laboratories, and clinicians. Its business spans two core divisions—Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics—with strengths in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, infectious diseases, and diabetes care. Founded in 1896 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche also advances personalized healthcare by pairing therapies with companion diagnostics.