Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer
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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.
Thats what makes us Roche.
Roche Sequencing is not only changing science but we are changing lives. Our software teams are laying the groundwork for the future by developing powerful bioinformatics algorithms data analysis tools and software/systems infrastructures so researchers and clinicians can make better health decisions faster. The path to curing cancer lies in ones and zeros as we work with next-generation genomic sequencing a new frontier. The complexity and sheer size of the data in the life sciences will make astronomical data problems look modest.
Do you want to develop software products that scientists and others in the life sciences will use to diagnose find treatments and eventually beat diseases like cancer Our team builds highly scalable reliable software and secure systems for better diagnostics.
As a Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer you will design and develop automated verification tests for the bioinformatics components and pipelines that are used in Roche Sequencing products. You will be part of the team developing ground breaking distributed scale-out Next-Generation Sequencing data analysis software to ensure the highest possible software quality for gene sequencing research and disease diagnostics.
The Opportunity:
Design and develop automated verification tests for bioinformatics components algorithms and pipelines in Roche Sequencing products.
Collaborate with bioinformatic scientists and software engineers/architects to test bioinformatics components and pipelines.
Understand bioinformatic algorithms analyze and generate data to confirm technical performance and scientific accuracy and tackle/report issues.
Develop reusable and scalable bioinformatics data analysis tool libraries for both component and end-to-end verification.
Serve as the bioinformatics subject matter expert and mentor within the software test engineering organization.
Participate in requirements architecture and design specification reviews.
Assist in performing dry run and formal verification testing while adhering to defined software development lifecycle procedures and best practices.
Who you are:
Bachelors degree in Bioinformatics Computational Biology Biomedical Engineering or a related field with 1-3 years of proven experience in software development test engineering or data engineering.
Proficient in Python with knowledge of bash; experienced in designing documenting and performing verification tests especially for NGS data and bioinformatics pipelines.
Proven understanding of microservice architecture AWS services Docker CI/CD Linux and Shell scripting.
Experience with Agile software development tools and demonstrated self-driven detail-oriented and analytical skills with a quick learning ability.
Strong teammate and customer-focused with excellent interdisciplinary collaboration and communication (verbal and written) skills.
Preferred:
Masters degree in Computational Biology Bioinformatics Biomedical Engineering or a related field
Java/C is a plus
Experience with workflow development languages such as Nextflow is a plus.
Experience with CI/CD tools and concepts.
Experience developing medical devices or regulated software is a plus.
Relocation Benefits are not available for the job posting.
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 life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Lets build a healthier future together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
