Senior Engineer

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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.

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Position Summary:
We are looking for driven, motivated New Product Introduction Process Engineers to join our growing Life Cycle Management (LCM) team to support new process development and improvements in high volume manufacturing environment. The NPI Process Engineer will work cross functionally with R&D, Manufacturing and Quality to develop processes for new products and improve processes of existing products.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leads or participates in consumables reagent new products introduction and technology transfers for Array and Sequencing products and processes.
- Leads or participates in process definition, improvement, design, development and quality test activities for development and subsequently scaling up and optimizing new products to production.
- Defines technical requirements and procedures for manufacturing to process products.
- Constructs and executes controlled experiments to address yield and quality issues and drives implementation of solutions in product development process for pilot and scale up.
- Leads or participates in complex technical issues to establish improvement solutions to correct or prevent recurrence of product and process failure.
- Troubleshoots process development, product transfer issues related to yield, quality and throughput.
- Leads or supports development of key strategic process development program, complete design and projects within schedule, budget and quality constraints.
- Presents results and data to collaborators, extended teams on a regular basis and senior management when needs.
- Provides guidance to junior engineers.

Position Requirements:

- PhD/ Masters/ Bachelor of Science/ Engineering or equivalent in Chemical, Biochemical, Pharmaceutical, Material Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry and/or Bio-related field.
- High degree of initiative and ownership, as well as a proven history of delivering results while working with several different departments in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail required.
- Proven track record in rational, hypothesis based experimental design, execution, and data analysis. Experienced use of data and risk to formulate clear decision criteria to influence technical direction at a project level.
- Proven experimental track record of innovation and scientific creativity.
- Designs and executes experiments with limited instruction.
- Ability to effectively troubleshoot and propose next steps.
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
- A self-starter, positive, ability to work with ambiguous requirements and driven with a “can do” attitude.
- Collaborative, open, team player; able to rapidly integrate into global cross functional teams to effectively support progress towards group and platform goals

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional tasks and responsibilities.

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills:

- 2 - 5 years of relevant experience required.
- Experience in research product/ process development and project management required.
- Work experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical/ high volume consumables manufacturing industries is desirable.
- Proficiency with reagent, chemical processes, and analysis.
- Experience with a wide range standard analytical techniques and surface characterization techniques.
- Understanding and skills in synthetic organic chemistry, small molecule synthesis, polymer synthesis, biomolecular bioconjugation, microfluidic and fluorescence-based assays.
- Good Documentation Practices and ability to write procedures and training manual.

Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.