Principal / Senior Principal Software Engineer — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 60 days ago
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.
Application process
- Our team specializes in building Data Pipelines and Applications for data acquisition, collection, storage, transformation, linkage and sharing.
- Join our Data and Digital Catalyst team as a
- Software Engineer, where you will develop the modernized and interconnected computational and data ecosystems that are foundational to our research.
- You'll build robust and scalable systems that unlock the potential of our diverse scientific data, directly accelerating the discovery and development of life-changing treatments for patients.
- This is a unique opportunity to empower our scientists and advance data-driven science through innovative technology. The Opportunity
- Build and enhance a modern, scalable ecosystem of applications and tools to capture, move, and prepare scientific data for analysis.
- Design and deliver complex, user-friendly data applications and pipelines that integrate diverse data sets across key scientific domains.
- Leverage standard patterns like microservices and event-driven architecture to improve our data workflows and application ecosystem.
Company and context
- Roche’s Research and Early Development organizations 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 models across gRED and pRED are essential to maximising these opportunities.
- The Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CS CoE) is a strategic, unified group whose goal is to harness the transformative power of data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist our scientists in both pRED and gRED to deliver more innovative and life-changing medicines for patients worldwide.
- Within the CS CoE organisation, the Data and Digital Catalyst (DDC) organization leads the modernization of our computational and data ecosystems by integrating digital technologies across Research and Early Development to empower stakeholders, advance data-driven science and accelerate decision-making.
- The Solutions team within the DDC Organization develops modernized and interconnected computational and data ecosystems.
- The Data Ecosystem is foundational to building solutions that accelerate the work done by our Computational and Bench Scientists and enable ML/AI tool creation and adoption.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters. A healthier future.
- This is a unique opportunity to empower our scientists and advance data-driven science through innovative technology.
- Mentor junior developers, fostering their professional growth and upholding high engineering standards.
Notes and original content
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- The Position
- A healthier future.
- The Opportunity
- Who You Are
Questions about this listing
What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 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.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Roche offer?
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