This is a high-autonomy, high-agency position for a builder who thrives in ambiguity and wants to ship AI products that directly impact cancer care. You'll sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and design, working across all three modalities to ship products to customers. Your work will span two critical domains:
1. AI Products for ProvidersDesign and ship AI-powered experiences for oncologists and clinical teams. This includes exploring conversational AI experiences, building agent-based workflows that help providers navigate managing patient care, and bringing new clinical AI products to market. You'll spend meaningful time with customers to deeply understand their workflows and uncover where AI can create transformative value.
2. Commercializing Natera's AI Foundation ModelsYou'll be the bridge between Natera's AI research lab and the launched product. Our team has developed proprietary models that need to be brought to market and into the hands of clinicians. You'll contribute to training and post-training of these models, build the serving infrastructure, shape the user experience, and own the end-to-end deployments of these products.
What You'll Do- Ship zero-to-one AI products end-to-end — from customer discovery and prototyping through production deployment and iteration
- Build agentic AI systems — design and implement autonomous and semi-autonomous workflows using LLMs, tool-use, memory, and orchestration
- Develop AI tools that improve efficiency across clinical operations, data extraction, manual workflows, and more
- Commercialize AI research — partner with the AI lab to take proprietary models from research prototypes and into production
- Contribute to model training and post-training — fine-tuning, evaluation, safety testing, and optimization of Natera's proprietary oncology models
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML or LLM-powered products in production
- Demonstrated ability to ship end-to-end — you've taken AI features or products from idea to production, ideally in a zero-to-one context
- Strong full-stack engineering skills — proficiency in Python and modern web frameworks; you can build both the model pipeline and the user-facing product
- Production experience with LLMs — fine-tuning, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic architectures, structured extraction, evaluation, and observability
- High agency and autonomy — you don't wait for permission, detailed specs, or hand-holding. You unblock yourself, seek out the highest-impact work, and drive it to completion
- Excellent communication — you can translate complex AI concepts for clinical and business stakeholders, and articulate a vision for what you're building and why
- Experience in healthcare, biotech, diagnostics, or pharma — especially oncology
- Familiarity with clinical workflows, electronic health records, or provider-facing software
- Track record of working in regulated environments (HIPAA, FDA, CLIA, CAP)
- Background in or comfort with computational biology, genomics, or multimodal data (imaging, sequencing, clinical records)
- Experience with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, MLflow, or similar ML platform tooling
Prior experience in a high-growth startup or zero-to-one product environment
OUR OPPORTUNITY
Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.
The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.
WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!
For more information, visit www.natera.com.
Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.
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What We Do
Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives. Where some set out to build a test, we set out to achieve a mission: change the management of disease worldwide by using DNA testing to proactively inform treatment. Through a cfDNA technology platform approach, we've pioneered noninvasive testing in unlimited applications—each with their own potential to revolutionize care for patients. #TeamNatera includes clinicians, scientists, biostatisticians, researchers, and laboratory professionals from around the world. Our diverse teams blend a passion for patients with deep clinical, scientific, and technological roots. Natera’s tests are validated by more than 100 peer-reviewed publications that demonstrate high accuracy.
