Senior Data Engineer, AI Drug Discovery
Listed on 2026-05-30
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Software Development
Data Engineering
Location: New York
Position Overview
Roche's Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CoE) is building a next‑generation Therapeutic Molecule Registration (TMR) platform that will serve as a cloud‑native, high‑performance system for managing billions of molecular records across our global research organization. We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to design, build, migrate, and scale this platform, working closely with machine learning, drug discovery, and cross‑company teams.
Responsibilities- Design and implement features of the TMR data model.
- Oversee cloud data migration to TMR and production deployment.
- Contribute to technical design discussions and architecture decisions.
- Write high‑quality, testable code for chemical registration workflows.
- Support and mentor junior team members.
- Collaborate with scientists and other engineers to implement business requirements.
- 7+ years of data engineering experience.
- Expert knowledge of Postgre
SQL and experience with Oracle. - Skilled with at least one modern data toolkit (Glue, dbt, Databricks, etc.).
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
- Python programming skills.
- Strong testing practices and test automation.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with agile development methodologies.
- Preferred: open source cheminformatics experience (e.g., RDKit, chemfp, Indigo, HELM toolkit).
- Chemical database cartridge expertise.
- Familiarity with biological sequence alignment and chemical/biological structure notation.
- Expertise in chemical structure canonicalization, molecular structure search algorithms, scientific software development.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, event‑driven architectures.
- Knowledge of security best practices.
The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of New York, is $141,100 – $262,200.
Benefits- Competitive base salary.
- Relocation benefits available.
- Annual bonus may be available.
- Comprehensive benefits program described at the link provided.
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