Machine Learning Scientist
Machine Learning Scientist
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Job Description
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. Join Roche where every voice matters.
The Position
A healthier future. Its what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
The Swiss Machine Learning (ML) group within Prescient Design / (MLDD Machine Learning for Drug Discovery) in Roche/Genentech seeks exceptional researchers who have a demonstrated research background in machine learning a passion for independent research and technical problemsolving and a proven ability to develop and implement ideas from research.
The group provides a dynamic and challenging environment for cuttingedge multidisciplinary research including access to heterogeneous data sources close links to top academic institutions around the world as well as internal Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED) and Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED) partners and research units.
The Opportunity
The Kelow lab within the Large Molecule Drug Development team of Prescient is looking for exceptional machine learning scientists who want to perform highquality research at the crosssection of machine learning and biology that have a direct impact in large molecule drug discovery. Researchers will primarily focus on the deep learning subfield of machine learning and should have a strong interest in fundamental research in selfsupervised learning and training and finetuning foundation models.
Develop novel Computational Biology/Machine Learning methods to answer challenging research questions in Large Molecule Drug Development (LMDD)
Work with the Roche pRED team to build and apply LLMs/agents for therapeutic molecule design
Work with the Foundational Models team within Prescient supporting the development of foundational models for drug discovery
Work with biological data from heterogeneous sources
Form close working relationships with research teams across the pRED organization
Work closely with therapeutic project teams at pRED/gRED to apply developed technologies towards discovery and optimization of therapeutic molecules
Contribute to and drive publications and present scientific findings at internal/external venues.
Who you are
A PhD degree in Computer Science Computational Biology Physics or related disciplines or an MS degree in the above disciplines with 3 years of industry research experience.
Demonstrated experience with Python and deep learning libraries such as Pytorch and/or Jax.
Proven research experience including at least one firstauthor publication or equivalent.
Experience working with data from biology immunology or related disciplines.
Research experience related to large language models with a public portfolio of computational projects (available on e.g. GitHub).
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Unwavering focus collaborative teamwork and exceptional delivery are key behaviors that drive our mission of doing now what patients need next. Together we can be transformative.
If you are passionate about contributing to a committed team and have the dedication to partnership and innovation Roche is the place for you! Every role at Roche plays a part in making a difference in patients lives. Apply now and join us in making an impact!
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together more than 100000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities foster creativity and keep our ambitions high so we can deliver lifechanging healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Lets build a healthier future together.
Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site which is one of Roches largest sites. Read more.
Besides extensive development and training opportunities we offer flexible working options 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as childcare facilities medical services restaurants and cafeterias as well as various employee events.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Employment Type
Full-Time
