Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood 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 launched liquid biopsy-based Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its LUNAR program, which aims to address the needs of early-stage cancer patients with neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment selection, cancer survivors with surveillance, asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening and individuals at a higher risk for developing cancer with early detection.

Guardant is expanding its mission to improve non-invasive cancer detection to partner sites across the globe via our Guardant Health in a Box initiative. The Sr. Field Applications Scientist (Sr. FAS) will be responsible for deploying Guardant360 and other automated assays.

The Sr. FAS will be lead and provide first-tier support to partner labs based in China and Japan. As the automation and assay specialist the candidate will provide deployment and post launch technical support on deployed Guardant’s diagnostic assays. The candidate will also provide presales support to BD team using Guardant Health’s digital sequencing technology. The is a remote work position when not traveling.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform Performance Qualification (PQ), Process Verification and Validation on new customer installations.
• Perform troubleshooting and/or root cause analysis of potential issues with  Guardant Health’s cfDNA automated workflow(s) and maintain ownership through resolution.
• Triage system issues and work with 3rd party vendors as required.
• Provide end-to-end training for Guardant Health’s sample preparation workflow(s).
• Support the planning discussions with new laboratories about the requirements for installing Guardant Health’s sample preparation workflow
• Develop training and troubleshooting material for support workflow(s).
• Work with quality assurance to ensure all documentation is accurately completed per regulatory requirements.
• Travel to lab sites in China and other GH partner sites when needed.

The candidate should be experienced with liquid-handlers (e.g., Hamilton, Agilent) Next-generation sequencing and other ancillary equipment.

• 3+ years of applicable experience in a diagnostics lab (industry or academic)
• BS degree in engineering or science, with 5-8 years of related experience. MS with 4+ years of related work experience or a Ph.D. with 3+ years of related work experience. Preferred degrees; Molecular Biology, Genetics or Biochemistry, Bioengineering or, Chemical Engineering
• Ability to identify, analyze and solve problems with minimal direction and make decisions with confidence
• Ability to successfully balance and prioritize multiple ongoing projects/tasks

Covid Vaccination Policy: Starting January 7, 2022, Guardant Health will require all employees to be fully vaccinated to either (a) establish that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19; or (b) request and obtain an approved exemption from Guardant’s COVID-19 U.S. Vaccination Policy as a reasonable accommodation, as consistent with applicable laws.  An employee is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccination. Acceptable vaccines are approved or under emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, fully-vaccinated employees will be required to maintain their fully-vaccinated status under this policy by obtaining, if applicable, any FDA-approved boosters.

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 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.

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