• Job Description

  Req#: REF4555R

  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

  Department:

  The Systems Engineering team is part of the Technology Development department at Guardant Health. Members of our team contribute to the development and commercialization of new diagnostic tests by acting as cross-functional coordinators and technical leads. We interface with representatives from software engineering, laboratory automation, assay science, bioinformatics, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, and more, with the goal of keeping all these disparate functional areas working together seamlessly.

  About the Role:

  As an intern on our team, you will be responsible for defining system-wide verification and validation testing of a novel laboratory automation platform in Guardant's Screening division. Time permitting, you may perform or coordinate some studies as well. This project will help us to ensure successful scale-up of our Shield test, while providing you with in-depth experience defining late-development testing of novel medical technology in an FDA regulated product lifecycle. With this role, we’re looking for a candidate who’s comfortable thinking in systems to understand how interacting parts contribute to the functionality of the whole product.

  Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Learn and understand the interactions between integrated subsystems in a complex laboratory automation system, including assay, reagents, software, instrumentation, and consumables.

  • Develop test methods to ensure successful operation of the system, and prepare associated documentation for an FDA regulatory submission.

  • Perform feasibility experiments to evaluate and refine proposed test methods.

  Qualifications

  Essential Qualifications:

  • Advanced BS students, recent BS graduates, or MS students are welcome to apply.

  • 0-1 Years of experience

  • Coursework or experience in a technical discipline (e.g., biomedical engineering, biotechnology, life sciences, or other engineering or science).

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills - this role will involve coordinating with members of other teams, including other engineering disciplines and scientists.

  • Good writing and documentation skills.

  
  

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Previous experience or coursework involving integrated systems of electromechanical, software, fluidic, or biochemical subsystems.

  • Comfortable working in a Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) laboratory.

  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.

  For positions based in Palo Alto, CA or Redwood City, CA, the hourly range for this full-time position is Undergraduate $29/hr., Graduate $34/hr., and Doctorate $42/hr. The range does not include benefits and, if applicable, overtime, 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, experience, and relevant education or training. If you are selected to move forward, the recruiting team will provide details specific to the factors above.

  Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

  Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to Peopleteam@guardanthealth.com

  Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
  
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  Please visit our career page at: http://www.guardanthealth.com/jobs/

• About the company

  We’re developing blood tests for early detection in high-risk populations and recurrence monitoring in cancer survivors.

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