Software Engineering Intern, Screening Data

Company Description

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.

Job Description

At Guardant Health our mission is to conquer cancer with data; as such software sits at the core of everything we do. While we’re best known for our molecular diagnostics, which unlock the genomic signatures of cancer, these tests are just the first step in the equation. Turning this genomic data into actionable insights shared with thousands of patients, physicians, and researchers in a scalable, reliable, and secure fashion is a software product challenge.

We are building a unique software stack to manage an ecosystem of microservices, RESTful APIs, and data integrations with internal and external systems to deliver useful and elegant user experiences in the extraordinarily complex oncology diagnostic and therapeutic landscape. We connect patients with clinical trials, help clinicians order our test and receive our clinical reports, and deliver valuable genomic datasets to researchers to help uncover important insights into treatment paradigms and drug discovery.

Software team is looking for a highly motivated Summer Intern – Data Engineering and Analytics to build data pipelines and Analytics for GH Screening to support end-to-end workflow from order entry, sample processing, billing, and final delivery of results to physicians and patients. You will interact with a diverse team of data engineers, and software engineers to develop software in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

Intern Responsibilities

• Support the Screening DataPlatform and Analytics team in building ETL pipelines, KPI metrics reports
• Perform large-scale data analysis to extract useful business insights
• Work closely with a Product Manager and Engineering team to understand Data requirements and implement the pipelines
• Work on latest Data technology stack such as AWS Glue, Appflow, Redshift, S3 and Tableau to develop the reports
• Suggest improvements in the tools and techniques to help scale the team

Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, (Data Analytics specialization preferred), Applied Mathematics, Statistics or related field
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong Database and SQL knowledge (JOINS, CTE functions stored procedures etc.)
• Development experience in at least one scripting language (Python, Java, NodeJS)

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

Covid Vaccination Policy:  Guardant Health requires all employees to be fully vaccinated. We follow the CDC guidelines for the definition of “fully vaccinated”, meaning an employee is consider fully vaccinated against COVID-19 after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccination, and necessary booster vaccines. In addition, fully vaccinated employees will be required to maintain their fully vaccinated status under this policy by obtaining, if applicable, any FDA-approved boosters. Candidates may request and obtain an approved exemption from Guardant’s COVID-19 U.S. Vaccination Policy as a reasonable accommodation, as consistent with applicable laws.  Candidates will not be able to start their employment with Guardant until they show proof of vaccination or have an approved exemption.

For positions based in Palo Alto, CA or Redwood City, CA, the hourly range for this full-time position is Undergraduate $27/hr., Graduate $32/hr., and Doctorate $40/hr