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Watch to learn first-hand from our employees what it's like to work at Illumina. Illumina is looking for a strong Inside Sales Representative/Sales Development Representative with a track record of success to join our team! The role includes but not limited to cold calls, set appointments and generate email outreach for the Illumina proteomics sales team, as well as qualifying inbound leads. The ISR is responsible for appointments being created, ensuring quality control, and tracking in our CRM. Responsibilities Engage target accounts via email, calls and other tactics to promote Illumina proteomics products and services with potential customers across the...

Position Senior Director, Corporate Strategy Function Enterprise Strategy Location San Diego, California (Hybrid). This is a full-time role, Monday through Friday, with an expectation of 2–3 in-office days per week and additional on-site presence as needed. The individual must reside in the San Diego area and be able to commute to our corporate offices. Relocation assistance is available and should be completed within a twelve (12) month period or a mutually agreed upon time. Reports To Vice President, Enterprise Strategy FLSA Status Exempt The Senior Director, Corporate Strategy is a senior member of the Enterprise Strategy team...

Position Director, Corporate Strategy Function Enterprise Strategy Location San Diego, California (Hybrid).This is a full-time role, Monday through Friday, with an expectation of 2–3 in-office days per week and additional on-site presence as needed. The individual must reside in the San Diego area and be able to commute to our corporate offices. Relocation assistance is available and should be completed within a twelve (12) month period or a mutually agreed upon time. Reports To Senior Director, Corporate Strategy FLSA Status Exempt The Director, Corporate Strategy is a senior member of the Enterprise Strategy team who independently leads high-priority,...

Position Associate Director, Corporate Strategy Function Enterprise Strategy Location San Diego, California (Hybrid). This is a full-time role, Monday through Friday, with an expectation of 2–3 in-office days per week and additional on-site presence as needed. The individual must reside in the San Diego area and be able to commute to our corporate offices. Relocation assistance is available and should be completed within a twelve (12) month period or a mutually agreed upon time. Reports To Director, Corporate Strategy FLSA Status Exempt The Associate Director, Corporate Strategy is an experienced enterprise strategist who leads major analytical workstreams and...

Illumina's Director, On-Market Portfolio Leader, reports into the Head of R&D Strategy and Portfolio and is responsible for driving the performance, quality, lifecycle management, and strategic evolution of Illumina's on-market products, ensuring that investments are aligned with organizational objectives and customer needs. This role leads governance, prioritization, and execution across the on-market portfolio, balancing customer impact, product quality, compliance, business objectives, and return on investment. The Director serves as a key partner across Development, Quality, Operations, Regulatory, Marketing, and Commercial organizations to ensure successful management of products from launch through end of life (EOL). Position Responsibilities Ensure that on market...

Illumina is seeking an experienced Staff Analyst, People Technology to support global HR technology programs. This role reports to the Associate Director, People Technology and serves as a senior functional owner for Workday Time Tracking, Absence, Benefits, and payroll-related integrations. Required Skills Workday configuration hands-on configuration and support for Time Tracking, Absence, Benefits, related business processes, validations, calculations, approvals, work schedules, eligibility, accruals, balances, enrollment events, plan rules, and life events. Payroll and benefits integrations define functional requirements, data mappings, monitoring, reconciliation, exception handling, controls, and test coverage for payroll and benefit-provider interfaces. HR and payroll domain knowledge understand time...

At Illumina, our HR team is highly collaborative, creative, and passionate about advancing our mission through our people practices. We are seeking an experienced Senior Staff HR Business Partner to support several organizations within our BioInsight organization. In this high-impact individual contributor role, you will partner closely with senior business leaders to translate business priorities into organization and talent strategies that enable performance, innovation and growth. You will serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, bringing strong business acumen, organizational insight and pragmatic HR expertise to complex business and people challenges. The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking with strong...

The Senior Learning Experience Designer designs, develops, and improves learning experiences that strengthen employee capability and performance. Reporting to the Associate Director, Learning Experience & Capability Development, this role translates defined talent and learning priorities into engaging content, resources, and experiences for leaders, managers, and employees. This role develops and curates learning content, contributes to blended learning journeys, and creates practical resources that help employees access relevant information, guidance, and development opportunities. The Senior Learning Experience Designer applies established learning standards and methodologies across instructor-led, digital, self-directed, experiential, and technology-enabled formats. Working with Talent Management colleagues, HR Business Partners, subject...

The Vice President, Product Management will lead the strategy, roadmap, lifecycle management, and commercial success of a high-impact biotechnology product portfolio. This leader will serve as the enterprise product owner for a complex, matrixed business, partnering closely with R&D, Business Units, Market Access/Customer Insights, Operations, Regulatory, Clinical, Quality, Finance, and regional teams to translate market needs, customer workflows, and scientific innovation into differentiated products and solutions. This role requires a strategic, customer-obsessed, commercially minded product leader who can operate at the intersection of science, technology, clinical/research workflows, and business execution. The VP will be accountable for shaping product vision, prioritizing...

This position is responsible for manufacturing and product Quality activities. This role is within Mfg/Ops Quality organization and is accountable for supporting day to day sustaining activities in a manufacturing environment. The position requires exceptional communication, interpersonal, and project management skills to effectively coordinate activities and deliver results. This position will have direct interaction with Manufacturing and Process Engineering groups to support manufacturing sustaining activities, continuous improvement, and manufacturing capacity expansion. The position may also have quality oversight for more than one manufacturing area. The position will be responsible to support change management activities, Nonconformances, equipment lifecycle, meeting facilitation and...

We are looking for a Senior Global Technical Training & Development Engineer to develop and deliver instructional solutions for our leading-edge products. You will collaborate closely with internal experts to acquire technical guidance and best practice know-how to create and update global training material. You will train Regional Engineering Trainers to facilitate training for Field Service Engineers, for Illumina, its Distributors and Customers, and collaborate closely with other internal groups aligned to contribute to the same primary goals to drive maximum utilization of Illumina systems at customer sites and to sustain customer retention. Responsibilities Develop the global training strategy for...

Illumina is seeking a talented individual to fulfill a Scientist 1 role in next-generation sequencing (NGS) assay research and development. This is a unique opportunity to join a talented team of scientists at the frontier of innovation in spatial transcriptomics. At Illumina you will work in a dynamic, team-oriented environment and help create novel molecular biology assays that support expansion of Illumina’s spatial transcriptomics portfolio Responsibilities Design and execute lab-based experiments using biochemistry and molecular biology skills Troubleshoot and optimize workflows and assays to improve performance Innovate new spatial transcriptomics methods and devise solutions to technical issues Work independently and...

Position Senior Financial Analyst, R&D Finance Location San Diego, CA (Hybrid) Reports To Associate Director, Finance – R&D FLSA Status Exempt The R&D Finance Business Partner provides finance support for a complex portfolio of R&D functions, programs, strategic initiatives, and R&D leadership team members. The role works with R&D and Finance leadership to translate technical and operational activity into clear financial insight, improve forecast accuracy, evaluate investment trade-offs, and support resource decisions across operating expense, headcount, and capital investment. This position operates as an individual contributor in a matrixed environment with limited day-to-day direction. Success requires strong financial...

This position maintains and repairs the facility's structure, equipment and ground, including plumbing, electrical and HVAC. Key Responsibilities Responsible for mechanical service calls and in-house repairs throughout facility and grounds. Performs skilled trade work, such as carpentry or painting in the construction, repair or alteration of structures such as walls, roofs or office fixtures. Monitor, maintain document and perform preventative maintenance on HVAC system including central plant. May provide guidance and oversee other personnel. May work from sketches, blueprints, and drawings. Act as liaison and supervise work of contractors. Be on call and able to respond 7/24/365. Listed responsibilities are...

Position Overview The Warehouse Receiving Associate is responsible for the accurate and timely receipt, inspection, and processing of inbound materials to support San Diego’s operations. This role ensures that all incoming shipments are properly verified, transacted in the system, and staged for putaway or further processing. The position requires close collaboration with internal teams across Distribution, Quality, and Planning. Responsibilities Receive, inspect, and verify incoming materials against purchase orders and packing lists. Process and transact receipts in ERP systems such as SAP. Ensure temperature-sensitive materials are handled per established procedures and stored in the correct environmental conditions. Coordinate with Quality...

Why Us We are a multi-disciplinary and multinational team focused in using next-generation sequencing technology to transform human health and save patient’s lives. Our team works at the interface of research and clinical practice developing and improving innovative algorithms to biomarkers and variants that fill gaps in clinical practice, focusing primarily on oncology. We collaborate deeply with internal and external teams, to augment DRAGEN, Illumina’s software platform to analyze high-throughput sequencing data, remove barriers for its use in clinical settings, and develop new biomarkers in areas such as MRD and methylation. Why You We know the importance of your role...

Our team specializes in developing a fast and accurate platform called DRAGEN for the secondary analysis of NGS genomic data. The platform covers a wide range of pipelines spanning germline and somatic analysis (WGS and targeted; tumor/normal and tumor-only), DNA and RNA workflows, and variant classes including small variants, CNVs, and structural variants. We are looking for a highly driven and talented Staff Bioinformatics Scientist to join our methods development team to work on secondary analysis algorithms. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in computer science, algorithms, statistics, or digital signal processing in addition to expertise in genomics...

As a Process Development Engineer on Illumina’s Flow Cell Technical Operations team, you will own and sustain bonding equipment and processes critical to Flow Cell Mechanical Operations. You will maintain process capability, improve equipment performance, and support day-to-day manufacturing execution while enabling the introduction and scale-up of new products, processes, and technologies. This role will collaborate closely with Manufacturing, Quality, and cross-functional engineering teams. You will solve complex technical problems, drive continuous improvement, and ensure bonding equipment and associated automation systems reliably support a growing and increasingly complex product pipeline. Responsibilities Sustain, troubleshoot, and improve bonding equipment and manufacturing systems...

The Sr. Materials Planner is responsible for ensuring optimal material availability for Illumina's instrument and spare parts portfolio by balancing supply, demand, inventory, and lead-times to support manufacturing, service, and customer needs. Responsibilities Develop and execute material plans to support instrument manufacturing, service, repair, and refurbishment operations. Monitor material availability and proactively communicate shortages or surplus to prevent supply disruptions in the network. Manage inventory levels to balance customer service, operational readiness, and inventory investment. Review and recommend updates to planning parameters, lead times, and master data. Analyze demand and supply changes, communicate risks and mitigation plans. Partner with Procurement...

*Candidate must be able to work out of our San Diego, Hayward, or Foster City locations* This position will support the Regional Project Planning function within Global Facilities and provide facility planning and construction design management to facilitate execution at multiple project scales and delivery methods in an energetic and fast-paced environment. The role is responsible for construction project and renovation space planning, estimation, scheduling, and resourcing. This person will work closely with consultants and internal stakeholders to create functional area program, layout, and to coordinate facility infrastructure support needs. The ideal candidate for this role has proven ability...

We are looking for a talented and motivated scientist to join the Assay Research and Development group. You will play an important role in developing new and novel sequencing library preparation assays that meet the high performance and robustness characteristics that our customers require. You will be responsible to design and execute experiments, collect data, perform analysis, draw conclusions and participate on product development teams. A background in molecular biology and biochemistry lab techniques is desired. Position Responsibilities Designs and performs experiments of varying complexity and across a broad array of techniques, foresees issues and works to overcome obstacles to...

Responsibilities Drive staff results by communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring and appraising job results, coaching and counseling employees, recognizing performance issues and driving improvement, developing, coordinating and enforcing systems, policies, procedures and productivity standards Establish strategic goals by gathering pertinent business, financial, service and operations information, choosing a course of action, defining objectives, and evaluating outcomes Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting and training employees; maintaining a safe, secure and legal work environment; developing personal growth opportunities Ensure validation program meets requirements of FDA (21 CFR Part 11 and Part 820), ISO 9001/13485, IEC 62304 and MDSAP Identify differences between...

Core Job Summary Manages the design, planning, construction and maintenance of equipment, machinery, buildings, and other facilities. Plans, budgets, and schedules facility modifications, including estimates on equipment, labor, materials and other related costs. Designs and develops organizational policies relevant to the facilities department. Oversees the coordination of building space allocation and layout, communication services and facilities expansion. May have responsibility for establishing and overseeing health and safety standards. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs and other related duties may be assigned. Scope of Responsibilities Receives predetermined work assignments with incremental objectives and defined processes, subject...