Roche

Machine Learning Engineer (Data and Digital Catalyst)

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3 days ago
South San Francisco, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$148k - $274k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain robust, scalable AI/ML-facing scientific web applications and backend systems.
  • Build tools to evaluate AI/ML model performance and develop methods for assessing AI quality.
  • Partner with product managers and scientists to understand needs, define requirements, and create technical specifications.
  • Develop and maintain systems for collecting, structuring, and storing scientific data for analytics and machine learning.
  • Implement, adopt, and evaluate AI/ML algorithms and analytical techniques.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and improvements to development processes.
  • Work across the technology stack and collaborate with computational scientists, research scientists, AI/ML experts, product leaders, and DevOps teams.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency with AI/ML frameworks, libraries, and toolsets.
  • Expert knowledge of statistics, machine learning theory, and algorithms.
  • Strong knowledge of ML performance optimization and GPU best practices.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, relational databases, NoSQL databases, data lakes, and cloud-native architectures in public clouds, ideally AWS.
  • Proven understanding and application of engineering best practices.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to build trusted partnerships with internal and external collaborators.
  • Ability to learn new technologies and programming languages quickly and continuously develop technical knowledge.
  • Preferred: experience with biological or multimodal data, scientific processes, scientists or research environments, workflow automation, GenAI, and agents.

Benefits

  • Onsite presence is expected at the South San Francisco campus at least three days per week.
  • The position is open to SE5 and SE6 levels, with final leveling determined during the interview process.
  • A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.
  • Relocation assistance is not available for this posting.
  • Genentech provides the benefits detailed in the posting and is an equal opportunity employer.
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About Roche

10,000+ employees

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.

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