About the position
Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening. Are you a scientist or engineer with a proven track record of automation and scaling? Are you eager to take part in the development of high growth, a fast-paced company? Do you have an interdisciplinary background in molecular biology, lab automation, and programming? Experience with design, development, testing, implementing, and supporting automated sample-processing workflows? Do you have a background in a requirements-driven approach (within a clinical laboratory/molecular biology-based laboratory?
Responsibilities
- Apply scientific methods and engineering skills in efforts for scalability sample processing workflows.
- Collaborate or lead cross-functional teams working in a variety of projects to explore, develop, optimize, test, and put in place scalable solutions for sample processing workflows.
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of business and user requirements and improving efficiency, throughput, and quality of processes.
- Contribute to protocol generation, report writing, and presentation preparation.
- Operate, program, and troubleshoot liquid handling robotics platforms for whole blood separation - preferably on Agilent Bravo or Hamilton platform.
- Integrate automated methods with sample tracking and data management software (is a plus).
Requirements
- BS degree in engineering or science, with 5+ years of related experience. MS with 3+ years of related work experience will also be considered.
- Preferred degrees; Mechanical engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering or, Chemical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- Experience streamlining workflows, developing automated laboratory processes, and instrumentation systems, from concept generation.
- Experience with operating and programming liquid handling robotics platforms (Hamilton, Agilent).
- Programming knowledge of Python, C# or relevant similar languages.
- Experience in automated development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays and/or standard molecular biology techniques (ie: nucleic acid isolation and purification, DNA quantitation, PCR, etc.).
- Verification & Validation experience, IQ, OQ, PQ, FAT, SAT, pFMEA, and technical files for submission.
- Experience working within regulated environments (IVD, LDT, etc.).
- Strong communication and collaborative skills.
- Ability to work, internal & external with diverse scientific, engineering, operational, and regulatory disciplines.
- Experience with statistical data analysis, monitoring data quality, and troubleshooting technical problems.
Benefits
- Base salary range for this full-time position is $118,400 to $162,800.
- Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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