Senior Orchestration Software Engineer- Workflow & Integration
AstraZeneca1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Translate scientist and operator requirements into orchestration designs and software implementations.
- Implement state models, event-driven run-control logic, exception handling, recovery, rollback, and scheduling for automated work cells and instruments.
- Develop reusable drivers, adapters, and interface modules aligned with documented contracts, coding standards, and versioning.
- Integrate instruments and robots with schedulers and data services using interfaces and SDKs.
- Partner with data engineering experts to define schemas, data contracts, and event models supporting analytics and ML features.
- Apply secure development practices, automated testing, configuration-as-code, and release documentation.
- Instrument workflows with telemetry, logs, and alerts; define service-level indicators and objectives; and participate in postmortems and reliability exercises.
- Produce onboarding materials, support operator UAT and day-two enablement, and support commissioning, cutovers, and hypercare.
- Track reuse, commissioning time, error and rerun reduction, and uptime across orchestration workflows.
Requirements
- PhD with 0 years, MS with 4 years, or BS with 8 years in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 4 years building software for lab or industrial automation or robotics, including hands-on orchestration or controls integration.
- Proficiency in one or more automation-oriented programming languages such as Python, C#, or Java.
- Experience with event-driven patterns, state machines, interfaces, SDKs, message buses, schedulers, and data services.
- Familiarity with schema design, data contracts, and basic SQL.
- Ability to collaborate with scientists, operators, mechatronics and controls teams, and data engineers, and produce clear user-focused documentation.
- Ability to periodically work in laboratory or manufacturing environments, handle required lifting, work around hazardous materials, and use PPE.
- Preferred: experience with biologics workflows such as cell culture, purification, and analytics, and integration with ELN, LIMS, or SDMS systems.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with robotics SDKs, vision or sensor verification, barcode or RFID systems, or material-handling subsystems.
- Preferred: familiarity with observability tooling, service-level definition, and structured postmortems.
Benefits
- The role works in person an average minimum of four days per week from the office, with individual flexibility.
- The company provides an inclusive environment and considers accommodation requests for disabilities or special needs.
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes prescription medicines for patients and healthcare systems. Its portfolio spans oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases (expanded by the 2021 acquisition of Alexion). Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, it is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, generating revenue primarily from drug sales and partnerships.