Scientist I (Reagent Development)
Company: Guardant Health
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: June 14, 2022
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Job Description:
Company Description
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.
Job Description
To enable Guardant Health to lead the disruption of cancer
treatments through non-invasive cancer screening, the Technology
Development Team is seeking a highly motivated Scientist to
develop, test, and improve existing and new technologies for rare
variant studies with next-generation sequencing. At Guardant, we
leverage the most advanced technologies and work with leaders in
many different fields to create the most impactful and meaningful
technologies for cancer management.
As a Scientist supporting product and technology development, you
will work with members within the team and interface with multiple
teams including process engineering, clinical operations,
bioinformatics, quality control and regulatory affairs. You will be
hands-on in the lab and be involved in the design, implementation
and validation of new technologies related to liquid and/or tissue
biopsy sequencing assays for the detection, treatment, and
monitoring of all cancer types.
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Additional Information
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.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO
guidelines.
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our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants.
Please visit our career page at:
http://www.guardanthealth.com/jobs/
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