Machine Learning Engineer — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 8 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 Foundation Models team builds large language models (LLMs) and agent platforms that enable next-generation scientific and biomedical applications across the drug-discovery pipeline.
- We are seeking exceptional scientists to join our efforts on one of the largest scientific agent and automation platforms in the industry.
- Our team focuses on developing and operating the foundational platform that transforms scientific knowledge and actions from thousands of world-class scientists into sharable, reusable tools, workflows, and agents, reshaping how drug discovery operates with large-scale in-house scientific use cases.
- We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop the backend components and tooling for our scientific agents.
- In this role, you will build the software layer that connects our models to internal scientific capabilities.
- You will focus on writing clean, performant code that wraps scientific logic into accessible APIs and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our agent workflows. The Opportunity
- Develop scientific tools by creating Python wrappers and API definitions that allow models to execute specific tasks (e.g., molecular property calculation, database queries).
- Build backend services using modern web frameworks (FastAPI/Flask) to serve agent capabilities to internal platforms.
Company and context
- Our AI for Drug Discovery organization, as part of Roche’s Computational Sciences Center of Excellence, advances drug discovery through cutting-edge machine learning.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- You will focus on writing clean, performant code that wraps scientific logic into accessible APIs and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our agent workflows.
- Contribute to frontier research related to agentic use in scientific scenarios.
- General interest in the natural sciences (chemistry, biology, or physics). A healthier future drives us to innovate.
- Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.
Notes and original content
- The Position
- The Opportunity
- Who You Are
- General interest in the natural sciences (chemistry, biology, or physics).
- Who we are
- A healthier future drives us to innovate.
Questions about this listing
What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 72'500 - 110'500 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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