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Die Position
Roche Diagnostics International Ltd in Rotkreuz is one of the world’s leading providers of diagnostic system solutions for clinics, laboratories and doctors’ offices. The company employs over 2200 people in Rotkreuz and is one of Roche Diagnostics main sites. Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The Opportunity
As a Principal Engineer within our PCR HW Chapter, you will be a hands-on technical leader driving innovation for Molecular, Core, and Point of Care laboratory solutions. In this domain-expert role, you will define, build, and release high-quality software for both IVD and non-IVD products, directly influencing our future product portfolio through the following responsibilities:
- Conceptual Leadership: Develop technical concepts and lead feasibility studies to ensure all technical requirements and overarching system designs are met.
- Software Lifecycle Ownership: Perform hands-on development tasks, including defining, estimating, and planning work packages while documenting SW unit specifications and designs.
- Architectural Contribution: Contribute to the SW architecture, defining key quality attributes and ensuring the team stays current with evolving technology trends.
- Quality& Maintenance: Conduct root-cause analysis for complex issues and provide high-quality bug fixes for post-market software releases using established checklists and templates.
- Risk Management: Continuously assess and report project risks, creating contingency and scenario plans for major risks on the critical path.
- Process& Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to regulatory and market standards (IVD) while proposing process improvements to enhance development efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Collaborate across business areas to present complex technical topics to high-level audiences, utilizing excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Who You Are
You’re a self-motivated team player who wants to influence your own development. It is natural for you to be proactive in working with your teammates and other parts of the organization. You like sharing your know-how to help the whole team advance. Bringing in new ideas to improve existing products with new functions and cost optimization is important to you. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies—where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.
To be successful in this role, you should possess the following core qualifications and experience:
- 10+ Years of Technical& Management Experience: Must demonstrate:
- Management: Proven history of direct oversight of global teams, including talent acquisition, performance management, and strategic program delivery.
- Technical: Continuous, active, hands-on architectural leadership in high-end embedded systems.
- Expert-Level Medical Instrument Control: Proven mastery in designing and architecting software forReal-Time Linux (Debian/Yocto) environments, specifically for complex, high-precision laboratory or diagnostic medical instruments (IVD).
- Advanced Modern Systems Stack: Deep technical proficiency inC++ andRust for safety-critical applications, paired with experience architecting distributed internal device messaging usingRabbitMQ.
- Specialized Middleware& Design Patterns: Extensive experience withAsynchronous programming (async/await), theActor Model framework, andEvent-Driven Architecture within an embedded context.
- Ecosystem& Tooling: Expert knowledge ofLinux Docker, Development Containers, and common Rust frameworks (e.g.,tokio, serde, sqlx).
- Hardware-Software Integration: Hands-on experience withCAN bus and the full-lifecycle SW/HW development ofIVD instruments within highly regulated environments (ISO 13485/IEC 62304).
Ready for the next step? We look forward to hearing from you. Apply now to discover this exciting opportunity!
Wer wir sind
Eine gesündere Zukunft treibt uns zur Innovation an. Mehr als 100.000 Mitarbeiter weltweit arbeiten gemeinsam daran, wissenschaftliche Fortschritte zu erzielen und sicherzustellen, dass jeder Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung hat – heute und für zukünftige Generationen. Durch unser Engagement werden über 26 Millionen Menschen mit unseren Medikamenten behandelt und mehr als 30 Milliarden Tests mit unseren Diagnostik-Produkten durchgeführt. Wir ermutigen uns gegenseitig, neue Möglichkeiten zu erkunden, Kreativität zu fördern und hohe Ziele zu setzen, um lebensverändernde Gesundheitslösungen zu liefern.
Gemeinsam können wir eine gesündere Zukunft gestalten.
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