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The PositionData ScientistRoche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.
At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.
This role is based in Roche's AI Function, where we build scalable platforms, tools, and GenAI capabilities to turn enterprise ideas into real-world healthcare products fast. Operating with an ambitious, high-ownership team culture, you will work on the ground floor of emerging agentic AI systems that reason, plan, and execute complex workflows under human oversight. Joining us gives you a rare opportunity to directly shape how next-generation AI is built, evaluated, and governed at enterprise scale to impact millions of patients globally.
The Opportunity
Design, build, and deploy production-ready AI/ML solutions and agentic workflows, taking models from initial prototype to robust, monitored enterprise capabilities.
Turn complex, ambiguous business problems into practical modeling approaches, selecting the optimal tool (classical ML, fine-tuned models, RAG, or agentic architectures) rather than relying on standard LLMs by default.
Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, and testing harnesses to offline- and online-evaluate GenAI/LLM outputs for safety, reliability, hallucination drift, and performance.
Build MLOps/LLMOps pipelines for continuous integration, deployment, and real-time observability, while managing infrastructure costs, token usage, and vendor API integrations.
Embed Roche’s AI governance, security, and compliance guardrails directly into development pipelines, ensuring fairness, privacy, and explainability from day one.
Partner closely with product owners, cross-functional engineers, and business leaders to translate technical trade-offs and surface data-driven insights on AI adoption, impact, and value.
Who You Are
Technical Expertise in AI & Software Engineering: Strong hands-on proficiency in Python, LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases/embeddings, and core NLP/statistical modeling with clean, reproducible code (Required).
GenAI Evaluation & LLMOps: Proven ability to build evaluation harnesses for GenAI, perform model fine-tuning, and implement LLMOps/MLOps pipelines with full observability (tracing, latency, hallucination monitoring) (Required).
Strategic Range & Communication: Demonstrated skill in bridging technical implementation with non-technical stakeholders, explaining complex AI trade-offs, and managing infrastructure/cost optimization (Required).
Cloud & MLOps Infrastructure: Hands-on experience deploying scalable enterprise AI solutions on AWS or Azure platforms (Preferred).
Regulated Domain & AI Governance: Experience with AI governance, model risk management, fairness/bias mitigation, or working within healthcare, pharma (GxP), or financial environments (Preferred).
What You Get
Salary Range: 170’100.00 - 243’000.00 - 315’900.00 PLN Annual based on an employment contract (Umowa o Pracę).
Annual Performance Bonus: Target bonus of 15% based on performance.
Dedicated Training Budget: Funding for certifications, AI/tech courses, global conferences, and diversified career paths.
Recharge Fridays: 2 additional paid Fridays off per quarter available to completely disconnect.
Take Time Program: Up to 3 months of sabbatical leave to use for any personal purpose.
Flex Location: Freedom to work remotely from different global locations for specified periods throughout the year.
Take Time for Charity: Up to 2 weeks of additional paid leave to engage in volunteering initiatives.
Comprehensive Benefits: Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM), MultiSport card, and vacation subsidy.
Stock & Tech Perks: Roche stock share purchase program, yearly sales of company laptops and cars, and much more!
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Who we areA 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. 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.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
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Skills Required
- Strong hands-on proficiency in Python, LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, embeddings, NLP, and statistical modeling
- Ability to write clean, reproducible code
- Experience building GenAI evaluation harnesses
- Experience with model fine-tuning
- Experience implementing LLMOps/MLOps pipelines with full observability
- Ability to bridge technical implementation with non-technical stakeholders and explain AI trade-offs
- Experience managing infrastructure and cost optimization
- Hands-on experience deploying scalable enterprise AI solutions on AWS or Azure
- Experience with AI governance, model risk management, fairness or bias mitigation, or regulated healthcare, pharma, or financial environments
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
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What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
