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The PositionJob Summary:
As an Applied Scientist with at least 5 years of experience, you will join a dynamic, multi-disciplinary agile team, using your skills to transform healthcare by delving deep into a variety of data sources. Your role will involve identifying needs, designing analytical solutions, offering consulting support to key stakeholders, and demonstrating impact through proof-of-value initiatives.
The Opportunity:
- Developing and implementing Data Science products, focusing on Natural Language Processing using LLMs and Generative AI tools.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to proactively identify relevant LLM/NLP use cases.
- Applying your NLP/LLM expertise to create and refine models that meet Roche's business requirements.
- Work closely with clients to understand their business needs, gather requirements, and provide consultative insights to inform strategic decisions.
- Supporting prioritisation efforts, understanding feasibility and business impact, and making informed decisions in a rapidly changing environment.
- Strong consulting and project management skills, with the ability to lead projects and work with clients across various industries.
- Working within global agile teams to develop products that deliver value to Roche Pharma and Diagnostics business stakeholders.
- Providing guidance and hands-on support for analytical LLM/NLP use cases, evaluating different NLP approaches and Generative AI platforms.
- Communicating findings and promoting the value of use cases to key stakeholders.
- Contributing to the positioning of data science as a key competency within the company.
Who you are:
- M.Sc. or PhD in a related field and experience with machine learning/data mining/artificial intelligence.
- Experience with Python programming and common NLP libraries (e.g., transformers, gensim, spaCy).
- Familiarity with key frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, GenAI/Agentic AI, Vector DBs) and infrastructure components (Docker, GPU) for NLP tasks.
- Experience using open source (e.g. HuggingFace) and commercial LLM models with different deep learning architectures.
- Knowledge of training and optimising language models for seamless integration.
- Familiarity with code generation best practices, code documentation, data security, and compliance in cloud-based data science workflows.
- Experience providing advanced analytical solutions.
- Ability to communicate data and results to a non-technical audience through data storytelling and visualisation tools.
- International, goal-oriented mindset with a positive attitude.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry preferred.
- Fluency in English and Chinese.
- A minimum of 5 years' hands-on experience in AI, data science and machine learning.
Who we are
A 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.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Master of Science or PhD in a related field
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in AI, data science, and machine learning
- Experience with machine learning, data mining, or artificial intelligence
- Python programming experience
- Experience with NLP libraries such as Transformers, Gensim, or spaCy
- Familiarity with PyTorch, generative AI, agentic AI, vector databases, Docker, and GPU infrastructure
- Experience with open-source and commercial LLM models and different deep learning architectures
- Knowledge of training and optimizing language models
- Familiarity with code-generation best practices, code documentation, data security, and cloud compliance
- Experience providing advanced analytical solutions
- Ability to communicate data and results to nontechnical audiences using data storytelling and visualization tools
- Strong consulting and project management skills
- Fluency in English and Chinese
- Experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
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.
Roche Insights
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).
