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GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured.

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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. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies. For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

Grail is looking for a Scaling and Productivity Engineer to help us scale our lab software and development team. This means identifying causes of scaling issues, whether they come from architecture or from accidental complexities in our development practices. Help us improve the tooling that software engineers rely on across all stages of our product development cycle, and then use those improvements yourself to scale our systems. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with cross functional teams including Software Engineering, DevOps, and Lab Operations to remove bottlenecks with new tools and automation systems without sacrificing safety or quality. Be hailed as master of ceremonies. You will be in a position to empower the engineering team with the platforms they need as we work towards detecting cancer!

You Will:

Work as a software developer to scale infrastructure and streamline the team's ability to get stuff done.
Streamline the development and deployment process and scale it for future software launches.
Build tools and scripts in go, bash, python or other languages.
Directly contribute to the code when the system itself limits scaling.
Work with DevOps and other stakeholders on architectural design and support a growing team of 70+ software and bioinformatics engineers.
Advocate best practices for DevOps from the “Dev” side.
Be an active contributor in addressing scaling concerns for our laboratory software.
Become an expert in managing our technical stack including: Phabricator, Bazel, AWS, Terraform, Docker.

Your Background Includes:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, electrical engineering or another technical field.
5+ years of DevOps, SRE or system administration experience.
Practical experience on the development side of things, systems engineering, and working within a governed software development life cycle

We are an equal opportunity employer and value 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.

GRAIL, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("GRAIL") does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies (“Agency”), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between GRAIL and Agency describing the services and specific job openings (“Agreement”). GRAIL may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contacts with any person within GRAIL is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any hiring managers of GRAIL with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Agencies interested in partnering with GRAIL may contact GRAIL's HR Department through our Customer Service team.

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Joerg Bredno

Principal Scientist, Computational Biology and Interpretation

WIDEN YOUR SCOPE

A huge data set with an even bigger impact

“Cancer is a nasty, diverse disease that can affect widely different regions in the genome,” Principal Scientist Joerg Bredno said, and understanding how and why cells change isn’t easy. Luckily, his team works with more than 12 petabytes of molecular data — which translates to more than 1 million gigabytes — and a high-performance scientific computing environment that can handle analysis at that scale. With these tools, Bredno’s team is building an even larger training data set for the next generation of GRAIL’s early detection, multi-cancer screening test, slated to roll out this year.

It is rewarding that we can see, learn and share relevant insights from our data that so far doesn't exist anywhere else in the world in this form.

Ting Ma

Associate Director, Data Engineering

ACCELERATE TOGETHER

A team united by passion, fueled by collaboration

GRAIL’s team sets lofty goals for its products, which require the unique talents and perspectives of every employee. Take one eight-month study that Associate Director Ting Ma worked on, parsing data from a GRAIL-sponsored clinical trial. Due to the volume of data, teamwork was imperative to define and implement clinical features, refine codes with robust test cases and tweak them as continuous feedback rolled in. The work is important, but that's not the only plus: “Cross-functional team collaboration is fun,” Ma said. “You get to learn so much while contributing to each project.”

GRAIL is taking on a challenge that is unprecedented. It can only become successful when people with different expertise collaborate deeply.

Ying Luan

Associate Biostatistical Director

UNCOVER NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Sharp talent, perpetually looking to learn more

There’s a reason top talent, like Associate Biostatistical Director Ying Luan, joins GRAIL. “Here, I knew I could have the opportunity to contribute to the development of innovative analysis methodologies,” Luan said. She’s now working on a diagnostic aid project, planning and designing validation for clinical studies. It’s a new area for her, but there’s plenty of support for learning new skills at the company: With resources like LinkedIn Learning, workshops and conferences, she finds footing in the field, while diversity and inclusion trainings connect her fully to GRAIL’s culture.

Post-launch activities and payer’s reimbursement were new to me when I joined GRAIL. But now, I’m learning new things on a daily basis with different stakeholders in mind.

What are GRAIL Perks + Benefits

GRAIL Benefits Overview

We’re committed to creating the best experience for everyone at GRAIL, ensuring that each member of our team has comprehensive benefits and resources to thrive at all stages of life, both at work and at home.

Culture

Volunteer in local community

We parter with Bay Area local partners such as Life Science Cares to help meet basic needs in the community.

Partners with nonprofits

GRAIL partners with The Honor Foundation to facilitate mock interviews to help military professionals transition to civilian life. Also oSTEM and The National Sales Network to identify diverse talent.

Open door policy

OKR operational model

Team based strategic planning

Open office floor plan

Employee resource groups

Employee-led culture committees

Hybrid work model

In-person all-hands meetings

Employee awards

Flexible work schedule

Remote work program

Diversity

Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff

Mandated unconscious bias training

Unconscious bias training is included as part of our standard interview training. We also have a formal training on the topic of unconscious bias that is facilitated by the People Team.

Diversity manifesto

Mean gender pay gap below 10%

Diversity employee resource groups

GRAIL proudly offers 4 employee resources groups led by team members in tandem with an executive sponsor. They include: ASERG, WERG, PRIDE, and BIPOCC.

Hiring practices that promote diversity

GRAIL's Talent team has partnered with a variety of non-profits, associations and job boards including WITI, oSTEM, THF, DiversityJobs and The National Sales Network to identify diverse talent.

Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Disability insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellness programs

Team workouts

Mental health benefits

Abortion travel benefits

Financial & Retirement