ML Engineer – Agentic Drug Design Platform

Genentech; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Genentech, a Roche company in South San Francisco, seeks a Machine Learning Engineer to build and operate backend services and AI-enabled drug design workflows. You will integrate ML models, scientific tools, and internal data into reliable end-to-end pipelines used by researchers.

The role emphasizes scalable cloud deployment, strong testing, and close collaboration with engineers and domain scientists. For the Senior level, 5+ years of experience and a track record delivering production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's in computer science, software engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience for Machine Learning Engineer level.
• 5+ years for Senior Machine Learning Engineer; production software delivery lifecycle experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and user-facing applications for an agentic drug design platform.
• Integrate ML models and scientific tools into end-to-end workflows.
• Implement agentic capabilities: tool execution, workflow orchestration, state management, evaluation, observability.
• Build software enabling scientists to configure, run, inspect, and reproduce workflows.
• Deploy models and tools into secure, scalable cloud environments.
• Write clean, tested code and contribute to testing, docs, reviews and CI/CD.
• Monitor services, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability and usability.
• Collaborate with researchers, product managers, and engineers to translate needs into solutions.
• Stay updated on drug discovery concepts and apply software engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

API design

Automated testing

Data modeling

System design

Cloud computing

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Eng or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Relational databases

React (preferred)

Job description

Genentech, a Roche company in South San Francisco, seeks a Machine Learning Engineer to build and operate backend services and AI-enabled drug design workflows. You will integrate ML models, scientific tools, and internal data into reliable end-to-end pipelines used by researchers.

The role emphasizes scalable cloud deployment, strong testing, and close collaboration with engineers and domain scientists. For the Senior level, 5+ years of experience and a track record delivering production