Software Engineer

GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

What if we could detect cancer early before symptoms begin? At GRAIL, we develop technology that detects cancer early, when it can be cured. Grail is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. Grail is looking for software engineers who enjoy testing, automation, performance, build and release, and developing high-quality software. As a software engineer, you will be working on a broad range of software systems and projects. You will work closely with DevOps, lab operations, and clinical teams developing software, comprehensive test plans, finding, tracking, and resolving bugs.
Functional Duties:

•  Write code to enable product delivery.
• Maintaining, and executing automated tests on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web.
• Maintaining, and executing automated tests on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web.
• Investigating customer problems referred to you by the technical support team, testing bugs, and creating and running bug reports.
• Working with multi-functional teams, resolving issues for systems, coordinating on product design, and offering inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs.
• Running the final quality on production release.

Requires Skills:

• Master’s degree or Bachelors + 2 years of relevant work experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics, or similar technical field.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Java, Python.
• Experience with AWS technologies is a strong plus.
• Strong in QA methodologies and demonstrated prior experience in SDET role.
• Attention to detail and consistency.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in Agile methodologies.
• Interest in human biology and genetics (many software engineers on our team had no prior experience in the life science industry.).

Preferred skills:

• Strong to advance the utilization of AWS.
• Go-Language (Go-Lang)

Grail is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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