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Senior Commercialization Process Engineer
Natera San Carlos, CA Posted 2 days ago
About the role
This is not a steady-state production role. This person thrives in the ambiguous, fast-moving space between R&D and operations, identifying workflow gaps, bridging informatics and lab systems, and ensuring that what gets built can be run at commercial scale reliably and…
What you'll do
- Embed within New Product Introduction (NPI) programs from feasibility through design transfer, providing bench-level lab operations perspective on workflow design, automation feasibility, and scalability requirements
- Partner with Molecular Assay Development, Pathology, Automation, Software Engineering, and other teams to evaluate molecular workflows (WES, WGS, RNA-Seq) and tissue-based workflows (histology, H&E, IHC) for…
- Serve as the Lab Ops liaison to informatics and LIMS teams, ensuring software systems, sample tracking, and data pipelines are production-ready and validated before Process Validation begins
- Perform hands-on and modeling workflow assessments, identifying bottlenecks, manual steps, and failure modes that should be resolved during development rather than post-launch
- Contribute Lab Operations perspective to User Needs documentation, FMEA, and process risk assessments at each NPI stage gate
- Collaborate with Engineering on instrument qualification and automation integration to ensure new platforms are operationally ready at launch
What you'll need
Natera lists the full requirements on its posting.