3 days ago
Penzberg, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build software controlling laboratory instruments and develop instrument drivers and APIs using serial, USB, and TCP/IP protocols.
- Lead development of drivers, APIs, and middleware connecting robotic platforms with LIMS and ELNs.
- Build agentic systems and digital representations of laboratories to execute scientific experiments.
- Drive the technical roadmap and define long-term technical strategy for a standardized, scalable framework.
- Advise and provide technical leadership to engineers on system control, data extraction, and workflow connectivity.
- Use reinforcement learning, in-context learning, and reasoning techniques to optimize scheduling algorithms and workflow execution engines.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience, with substantial professional experience, ideally 8+ years.
- Practical experience in a biotech or pharmaceutical research environment.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript and deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, APIs, serverless architectures, and distributed systems.
- Experience with at least two of NATS, Kafka, MQTT, or GraphQL.
- Experience shaping technical roadmaps and making pragmatic build, defer, and decommission decisions.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with scientists and define high-level technical architecture.
- Preferred: experience training, evaluating, or adopting AI/ML models, including reinforcement or imitation learning for robotics, and building AI-enabled systems with evaluations, guardrails, and reliability measurement.
Benefits
- Submit only an updated CV and certificate of the highest degree; a cover letter is not required.
- Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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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.