Senior Software Research Engineer
Department: Research & Development
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: EMEA-Switzerland-HQ
Description
Why This Role Matters
We are building the future of digital dentistry. Align Technology has transformed orthodontics and restorative dentistry through Invisalign, the iTero intraoral scanner, and exocad CAD/CAM—products used by clinicians in over 100 countries, backed by data from more than 20 million patients. Our Advanced Technology Development (ATD) team in Switzerland & Germany is where breakthrough ideas become real products.
As a Senior Software Research Engineer, you will work at the intersection of computer vision, generative AI, LLMs and 3D geometry to solve problems that have no textbook solutions. You will invent new ways to analyze, diagnose, simulate and visualize dental diagnostics & outcomes, turning raw 3D and 2D data and clinical imagery into intelligent, patient-specific health information. This is applied research with direct product impact: your prototypes become the features millions of patients and their dentists rely on.
Key Responsibilities
Your work will span the full arc from research to early-stage product development, with 3D mesh processing and LLM integration and computational geometry as the focus:
• Research to Product Execution: Combine Exploratory Research, Requirements Analysis, Rapid Prototyping, Validation and Product Development.
• Train Deep Learning Models: Building Datasets, Working with Labelers, improving Data Quality, Iterating on Models and Analyzing results statistically.
• From Data to Clinical Diagnostics and Treatment Plans: Leveraging your DL models, LLMs and all our health data.
• Work with some of world’s leading c