Senior Lab Automation Engineer

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.

Job Description

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 (withing a clinical laboratory/molecular biology-based laboratory?

Essential Duties and 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)

Qualifications

• 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. As well as requirements gathering through to process validation and implementation.
• 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.

Additional Information

For positions based in Palo Alto, CA or Redwood City, CA, the base salary range for this full-time position is $118,400 to $162,800. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.

Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including, but not limited to, job-related skills,