Staff Engineer, Lab Operations

Job Description





About the Role:





To enable Guardant Health to lead the disruption of cancer treatments through non-invasive cancer screening, the Post Deployment Development Team is seeking a highly motivated Engineer to help support the evolution of the Guardant Health Shield product/assay from its current state into a high throughput production line. The Staff Engineer, Lab Operations, will contribute to analyze current Shield operations workflows and recommendations areas for process improvement. 





As a Staff Engineer, you will support Shield Clinical Lab Operations, interface cross functionally, with members of various departments including Technology Development, Quality Assurance, Bioinformatics, and Automation Clinical Development. This position will contribute to project planning, continuous improvement activities, and process troubleshooting. They will drive changes to improve and support operations and establish additional capabilities such as: improved lab workflows, assembly methods, Turn-Around-Time, cost reduction, cost management etc.  An ideal candidate would have a high level of knowledge of Assay/Process development and good documentation practice (GDP). 





Essential Duties and Responsibilities:





Serve as a liaison between Operations, Technology Development, Automation, etc. 





Advocate for the needs of the Lab Operations department. 





Collaborate with all functions within project teams. 





Analyze data and troubleshoot issues with cross functional team members. 





Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. 





Drive continuous improvement within Screening Operations to reduce test turnaround time, analyze & reduce COGS, and improve product quality. 





Determine and implement effective ways to create and execute improvement plans for Guardant Health’s screening product. 





Present updates, write protocols, reports, and SOPs. 





Support a Quality first culture by initiating and supporting the improvement and continuation of initiatives driving accuracy and consistent adherence to regulations. 





Have a ‘change-agent’ mindset.