Senior Orchestration Software Engineer- Workflow & Integration
About The Position
This role is within the Advanced Robotics & Data Orchestration Team in Alexion’s Product Development & Clinical Supply organization. The engineer will be responsible for the software layer that coordinates instruments and robots into push-button, reusable workflows. This is a software-leaning and science-facing role, requiring experience with pharmaceutical product development workflows, verification via vision/sensors, and data product thinking to translate scientist needs into robust orchestration. The goal is to accelerate life-changing therapies for patients with rare and ultra-rare diseases.
Requirements
- PhD + 0 years, or MS + 4 years, or BS + 8 years in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 4+ years building software for lab or industrial automation or robotics, with hands-on orchestration or controls integration.
- Proficiency in one or more languages common in automation (e.g., Python, C#, or Java).
- Experience with event-driven patterns and state machines.
- Experience with interfaces, SDKs, and message buses.
- Experience integrating with schedulers and data services.
- Familiarity with schema design, data contracts, and basic SQL.
- Collaboration with scientists/operators, mechatronics/controls, and data engineers.
- Clear, user-focused documentation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with biologics workflows (cell culture, purification, analytics).
- Experience integrating with ELN/LIMS/SDMS systems.
- Hands-on work with robotics SDKs.
- Experience with verification via vision/sensors.
- Experience with barcode or RFID.
- Experience with material-handling subsystems.
- Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics/logs/alerts).
- Experience defining service levels.
- Experience with structured postmortems.
Responsibilities
- Translate scientist and operator requirements (throughput, usability, exception paths, reliability targets) into orchestration designs and software implementations.
- Implement run-control logic (state models/events), exception handling, recovery/rollback, and scheduling for automated work cells and instruments.
- Develop reusable drivers/adapters and interface modules aligned to documented contracts, coding standards, and versioning.
- Integrate instruments/robots with schedulers and data services using interfaces and SDKs.
- Partner with data engineering experts to define schemas and event models to support analytics and ML features.
- Apply configuration-as-code, CI/CD, automated testing, and secure development practices.
- Ship documented releases and migration guides.
- Instrument workflows with telemetry/logs/alerts; define service level indicators and objectives for orchestration software.
- Participate in postmortems and reliability exercises.
- Produce onboarding artifacts (connectivity patterns, validation checklists, example configurations).
- Support operator UAT and day-2 enablement.
- Support commissioning, cutovers, and hypercare for priority workflows.
- Track reuse, commissioning time, error/rerun reduction, and uptime.
Benefits
- Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
