Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI for Drug Discovery (Lab in the Loop) jobs in United States
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Roche · 2 months ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI for Drug Discovery (Lab in the Loop)

positionNew York City
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$160K/yr - $297K/yr
date3+ years exp

Roche is a leading healthcare company focused on innovation and access to healthcare. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to their AI for Drug Discovery group, specifically in building the Lab-in-the-Loop platform that integrates generative machine learning with automated wet-lab experimentation to optimize therapeutic molecule discovery.

BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsOncologyPharmaceuticalPrecision Medicine
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Responsibilities

Shape the strategic roadmap for Lab‑in‑the‑Loop, influencing its features and technical architecture
Build and enhance our full-stack platform, crafting intuitive front-end applications and engineering the reliable backend services that orchestrate the entire discovery cycle
Partner directly with ML scientists and experimentalists, translating complex scientific workflows into elegant and effective product features
Build the critical integrations that close the loop with the wet lab, connecting our platform with robotics, assay pipelines, and instrumentation data
Engineer the systems that bring our AI to life by integrating novel generative models and building the infrastructure for their evaluation and deployment

Qualification

Full-stack applicationsSystem designMachine learningPyTorchEvent-driven architectureCuriosity about biology

Required

3+ years building and operating complex, full‑stack applications (you've owned systems in production)
Strong system design skills: domain modeling, event‑driven architecture, concurrency/failure modes, performance profiling
Familiarity with machine learning concepts, model training, serving, and evaluation
Practical hands-on experience with PyTorch in a production environment

Preferred

Curiosity about the biology of disease and eagerness to contribute to scientific and computational efforts

Benefits

Relocation benefits are available for this job posting.
A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.
This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Company

Roche

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Roche is a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company that offers medicines and diagnostic tests for various medical conditions and diseases.
dateFounded in 1896
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Basel, Basel-Stadt, CHE
people-size10001+ employees
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http://www.roche.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (12)
2024 (9)
2023 (6)
2022 (2)
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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$7.79B
Key Investors
SoftBankSCALE AINovartis
2021-08-04Post Ipo Equity· $5B
2020-12-07IPO
2020-05-06Post Ipo Equity· $0.5M

Leadership Team

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Alan Hippe
Member of the Executive Board - Group CFO
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Christine Bakan
Global Head and VP of Software and Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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