Software Eng III

Myriad Genetics

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

We need a Software Engineer III to help Myriad Genetics, Inc. deliver innovative products that allow patients to make life-changing decisions. Our genetic screening and testing help to provide actionable insights to empower people to make critical and timely healthcare decisions by using molecular diagnostic tests for hereditary cancer, urological cancer, depression, and other diseases. We are excited about the future and remain committed to advancing the science of personalized medicine as we develop more products to address unmet medical needs. The software automation team is responsible for building software tools to support our highly automated production sequencing lab. We work closely with hardware engineers and molecular biology scientists to build automated workcells using the most advanced industrial automation and lab automation equipment available. Our software supports the simultaneous processing of thousands of samples across multiple workflows and our workcells run 24/7. This is a Hybrid Office position for South San Francisco, CA. Our team is flexible on working from home but we do need to go to the office to work with lab users and equipment for certain projects. Expect 1-3 days a week in the office, depending on our current projects. This is a full stack software engineering position. You will work across our tech stack.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of industry experience in a high-level language. We work predominantly in Python and JavaScript.
• 2+ years of industry experience working with web application development. We use Django as a web framework and React/Typescript for front end development.
• Relational database experience. We use PostgreSQL.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: design, testing, version control.
• Strong communication skills. We work closely with teams in tech, R&D, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation, test, deployment, and maintenance of our in-house developed laboratory automation software stack. This includes a laboratory information management system (LIMS), scheduling software that can run any type of lab automation workcell, and web-apps that control our automation equipment.
• Make design decisions involving overall system architecture and implementation patterns to ensure future reliability, scalability and flexibility of our laboratory operations.
• Write and perform integration tests with real and simulated devices.
• Interface with other teams to develop software requirements. We work with hardware engineers, assay development scientists, production lab scientists, bioinformaticians, maintenance engineers, and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees