Senior Software Engineer Lab Automation — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring.
Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally.
This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.
- At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring.
- Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally.
- To excel in this role, you will bridge the gap between complex software engineering and laboratory research in drug discovery through the following responsibilities:
- Design, program and troubleshoot high-throughput lab workflows.
Main responsibilities
- To excel in this role, you will bridge the gap between complex software engineering and laboratory research in drug discovery through the following responsibilities:
- Design, program and troubleshoot high-throughput lab workflows.
- Build orchestration systems, hardware abstraction layers, and instrument drivers that manage retries and allow unattended operation.
- Implement logging, metrics, and alerts across hardware and software to identify failures.
- Fix root causes using software or vision models instead of relying on manual workarounds or vendor support.
- Build systems to maintain a digital representation of the lab, including sample identity, instrument state, and resource availability.
- Connect instruments via APIs and integrate with LIMS and ELNs.
- Manage hardware requirements, site constraints, reagent selection, and work cell integration from initial design to deployment.
- Work directly with software engineers, automation scientists, and hardware engineers to turn scientific processes into technical architectures. Who You Are
- You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering and hardware integration.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- Roche’s Research and Early Development organisations at Genentech (gRED) and Pharma (pRED) have demonstrated how these technologies accelerate R&D, leveraging data and novel computational models to drive impact. Seamless data sharing and access to
- Using your background in both software development and hardware integration, you will work with a team of software-focused engineers to build, test and do what is needed to bring the software and hardware layers into production.
- Work directly with software engineers, automation scientists, and hardware engineers to turn scientific processes into technical architectures.
- Experienced in designing workflow orchestration or scheduling systems that manage shared resources, dependencies, and priorities.
- Skilled with computer vision models (such as OpenCV, YOLO, or SAM) for automated error handling and object or anomaly detection. Experienced in training, evaluating, o
Notes and original content
- The Position
- Roche’s Research and Early Development organisations at Genentech (gRED) and Pharma (pRED) have demonstrated how these technologies accelerate R&D, leveraging data and novel computational models to drive impact.
- Seamless data sharing and access to
- The Opportunity
- Who You Are
- Skilled with computer vision models (such as OpenCV, YOLO, or SAM) for automated error handling and object or anomaly detection.
- Experienced in training, evaluating, o
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What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 99'500 - 151'000 gross per year for this position in Basel. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
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