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Grail is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be curedGrail is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types earlyThe 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 testGrail is headquartered in menlo park, ca with locations in washington, d.c., north carolina, and the united kingdomIt is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companiesFor more information, please visit www.grail.com.
As a lab software support engineer at grail, you’ll enjoy working directly with the software development team, clinical operations, research scientists and assay designers resolving lab data requirements, performing custom configurations of our lims, and utilizing scripting, data integrations and sql migrationsYou will support the clinical and r&d teams in problem solving by finding solutions to get lab derived data effectively and accurately recorded into our system and develop scalable workflows for operational teams.
You will:
Understanding lab processing workflows for grail products and studies across multiple distributed systems
Supporting our custom in-house built lims and working with software engineers to design solutions for scaling grail research, clinical, and manufacturing operations.
Developing and configuring clinical assay software using custom grail systems in collaboration with lab operators, assay designers and automation engineers.
Collaborating with internal partners to understand their lims data needs and how our systems can support them
Mentoring and guiding other team members to help improve their skills and elevate the software organization.
Your background should include:
At least 1 year of proven experience working within lis/lims, clinical systems, software, database or data lake architectures
Knowledge of sql, mysql, and/or other query languages for data migrations
Solid understanding of general-purpose scripting languages such python, bash/csh, etc.
Sound analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Proven effective written and verbal communication skills.
Being collaborative and the ability to lead projects.
Willingness to guide others and learn new techniques.
Experience with aws infrastructure preferred.
Experience with database migration, performance tuning, and optimization preferred.
Experience with web applications and web development preferred.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our companyWe do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, grail has made the decision to require all u.sEmployees receive the covid-19 vaccines as a condition of employment“full vaccination” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administeredAnyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.
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