Roche
Senior R&D Engineer - Sequencing Systems
Santa Clara · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$88k-$137kDetected 16 hours ago
PythonSolidWorksFEAGD&TMechanical DesignNGSCommunicationPublic SpeakingTolerance AnalysisActuators
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About the role
- In this role, you will advance highly automated DNA sequencing pipelines from initial concept through to manufacturing.
- Selecting and evaluating off-the-shelf components
- Other critical functions include subsystem and system level assembly, testing and troubleshooting, as well as analyzing data, writing reports and presenting results.
Responsibilities
- This role balances engineering design andO detailed documentation with active, hands-on prototyping, subsystem assembly, and lab-based hardware testing across fluidic, mechatronic, pneumatic, thermal, optical, and electrical subsystems.
- Mechanical design of custom fluidic components, assemblies, and subsystems including tolerance analysis and thorough documentation
- Optimizing workflows, protocols, and assays, while collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to drive technical progress
- A healthier future drives us to innovate.
- Let's build a healthier future, together.
- Prototyping and testing mechanical and electromechanical designs
- You bring strong engineering fundamentals to design complex, high-performance fluidic systems and custom manifolds integrating pumps, valves, sensors, and thermal controls.
- You are proficient in SolidWorks for detailed mechanical design, manufacturing drawings, and PDM/PLM document management workflows.
- Experience developing products in a regulated environment
Requirements
- You hold a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, or a related field with 3+ years of industry experience (2+ years with a Master's
- You have track record designing life science or diagnostic reagent handling systems, with direct experience bringing an automated fluidic system from feasibility to manufacturing.
- Experience designing automation systems and related mechanisms using both electric and pneumatic actuators
- Proficiency with FEA simulations in SolidWorks Simulation
- Proficiency in GD&T
- You hold a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, or a related field with 3+ years of industry experience (2+ years with a Master's; entry-level for PhDs).
Compensation
- The expected salary range for this position based on California is 87,500.00 - 137,040.00.
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
Company info
- Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products.
- Roche is an equal opportunity employer.
- It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence.
- The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.
- If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact us by completing this form Accommodations for Applicants.
- At Roche Sequencing Solutions, we are seeking a Senior R&D Engineer to help drive the mechanical design, development, and commercialization of cutting-edge sequencing systems and advanced automation equipment.
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- equal opportunity employer.
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