Staff Software Engineer (C++)
IlluminaAbout the role
What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?
At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.
Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.
Staff Software Engineer (C++ development) / Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
San Diego, California
Onsite/Hybrid/Remote
DRAGEN Product Development team
As a Staff Software Engineer you will help optimise and implementation activities for our Dragen platform and ensuring the quality of Illumina software adheres to our standards, with support of your colleagues in region and the US.
Why us
The exponential growth of Illumina means limitless opportunities for you to explore, grow, and contribute to the cause.
Illumina offers a dynamic work environment with new challenges every day and a group of people ready to help solve them with you. We are a place where you can do unmatched work, build meaningful relationships, and grow as an individual.
Software engineers at Illumina develop tools and software solutions that impact human health throughout the world.
Illumina's employee benefits are industry-leading and include, flexible time off, private medical insurance, compassion and care time off, leisure travel insurance, pension, lifestyle allowance, employee stock purchasing program, volunteer time off and much more!
Why you
Our team members are bright, energetic and dedicated - they are the driving force behind our innovation and impact. To attract the best and brightest, we offer a competitive employee benefits program. We view it as a smart investment in our people, one that recognizes the tremendous value they bring to our business every day
As our Staff Software Engineer you will require extensive experience using C++ and ideally be familiar with genomic pipelines, bioinformatics algorithms and data structures within a development function would be an advantage. You will be collaborative with product owners and other application developers to design, code, and maintain high quality applications against established processes in a scrum team setting to be successful in this role.
This role chiefly involves software development and project coordination to map existing secondary analysis algorithms from one platform to another, making appropriate changes to bend each algorithm into something more amenable to the new deployment target whilst keeping functional and (where feasible) bit accuracy. Further, this involves working with the systems/QA engineer(s) to assure quality and performance targets are met and also involves working with the greater DRAGEN team on support and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities include
- Implement and improve sequence analysis algorithms to produce high-performance, production-grade software.
- Benchmark, find bottlenecks, optimize code.
- Work with software teams to ensure alignment of architecture to user requirements
- Occasionally provide technical assistance to escalated production issues
- Lead technical discussions on complex technologies with the team
- Maintain awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software technologies to platform development efforts
- Provide technical leadership to a project or product team as required
Preferred background,
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