Jobs at Illumina

Designs end-to-end Salesforce solutions across Commercial and Services: produces technical designs, data models, integration specs, and ADRs; evaluates platform approaches; ensures scalable, secure integrations (SnapLogic, SAP); enables Agile delivery by decomposing work, defining acceptance criteria, and validating implementations; designs AI agent and Data Cloud solutions with responsible-AI guardrails; advises stakeholders and builds architecture repositories.

Lead global business development for BioInsight by sourcing, negotiating, and closing strategic collaborations and licenses across genomics, multiomics, and AI-enabled drug discovery. Build senior relationships, identify growth opportunities, manage complex transactions end-to-end, and partner cross-functionally to translate scientific innovation into commercial impact.

Lead design and build of AI-native interfaces and streaming experiences. Implement LLM integrations, prompt engineering, structured outputs, and generative UIs. Define AI UX patterns, frontend standards, and evaluation criteria. Collaborate with design, product, backend, and ML teams, mentor senior engineers, and author technical guidance to scale AI experience work across the company.

Serve as a strategic HR Business Partner to senior global Commercial leaders, driving talent strategy, performance management, succession planning, employee relations, compensation processes, and leadership development. Lead cross-functional HR initiatives, collaborate with COEs and HRIS, support inclusion efforts, and act as a local HR deputy in San Diego to enable organizational goals.

The Associate Director will develop and implement pricing strategies, lead initiatives for pricing excellence, and analyze global markets to optimize revenue. This role involves cross-functional leadership and effective communication at all levels.

Support product lifecycle activities from NPI to manufacturing, driving quality, yield, and cost improvements through data analysis, DOE/FMEA/SPC, engineering changes, supplier qualification, and cross-functional collaboration.

Design, execute, and interpret single-molecule DNA biophysics experiments; develop novel sequencing-related assays; collaborate cross-functionally; troubleshoot instruments and data collection; keep detailed lab records and present technical reports.

Lead global business development for BioInsight by identifying, structuring, negotiating and closing strategic partnerships across genomics, multiomics, data licensing, bioinformatics and AI. Build senior relationships with pharma, biotech and research organisations, manage full partnership lifecycle, and collaborate with R&D, product, commercial, legal and finance teams to translate scientific innovation into commercial opportunities and shape the BioInsight roadmap.

Integrate, test, and troubleshoot DNA sequencing systems and biochemical assay workflows. Execute experiments, analyze system-level data, document results, run verification plans, and collaborate cross-functionally to diagnose root causes and present technical findings.

Lead and execute proactive global PR strategies for Illumina, driving media coverage, executive visibility, crisis communications, and cross-functional alignment. Oversee media engagement, agency coordination, metrics tracking, and mentorship of external communications team to amplify the company’s genomics and biotech leadership.

Lead software quality and compliance for non-product and manufacturing software in a regulated medical device environment. Oversee validation deliverables, software classification, risk management, training, audits, change control, and advise on data integrity, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and cloud impacts to ensure regulatory compliance (21CFR820, 21CFR11, ISO13485).

The Senior Staff Software Program Manager will oversee software development for a new sequencing instrument, managing cross-functional teams and ensuring timely delivery throughout the NPI lifecycle.

The PLM Program/Operations Lead drives operational execution of PLM initiatives, translating strategy into action plans, managing dependencies, and ensuring effective program governance across teams to align on delivery goals.

The Senior Sequencing Sales Specialist focuses on driving genomic technology sales, collaborating with teams, training staff, and building customer relationships while leveraging technical expertise in sequencing and multiomics.

Design, implement, and maintain custom test frameworks for Illumina's primary analysis software. Create and expand automated tests, troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, investigate failures, collaborate with developers to diagnose root causes, and ensure tests are reproducible, documented, and maintainable as analysis capabilities evolve.

Develop and optimize high-performance C/C++ signal-processing pipelines for genomic instruments. Design multi-threaded Linux software, debug and profile performance, collaborate with bioinformatics and instrument teams, and provide technical leadership to deliver accurate, fast base-calling solutions.

Lead software quality engineering for regulated medical device software: provide SME support across SDLC, review and approve development deliverables, drive risk management and V&V strategies, support audits and CAPA investigations, and help scale software quality capability within the India team.

Support software quality activities across the SDLC for regulated medical device software. Review and approve deliverables, participate in risk management and design reviews, support verification/validation, handle quality issues and audits, enable continuous improvement, and support emerging tech areas (AI/ML, cybersecurity, cloud).

The System Integration Engineer will integrate hardware, software, and chemistry components for microarray products, design experiments, analyze data, and troubleshoot system issues.

Develop and transfer oligonucleotide manufacturing processes for scale-up in a GMP/FDA-regulated environment. Execute feasibility builds, design experiments (DOE/SPC), troubleshoot yield/quality issues, author procedures, train production, analyze results, and collaborate cross-functionally to implement sustained production processes.