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Illumina is seeking a driven and dynamic candidate to join a successful and expanding Finance organization. This role will suit a positive and hands-on candidate, who will have direct exposure in understanding the Illumina USCAN business, including its challenges and strategies. This position will also offer an opportunity to influence decision-making across the organization. The ideal candidate will provide quality financial and commercial input to individual investment decisions, understand/challenge key revenue forecasting assumptions, and deliver financial analysis of performance, forecasts, key risks and sensitivities. This candidate will be viewed by USCAN regional leaders as a financial process and data/systems expert...

The Associate Director, Operational Excellence is a pivotal leader and true partner across every function at Illumina. In this role, you’ll collaborate directly with the leadership team to drive high‑impact transformations that fuel our company strategy, deploy our Operational Excellence business systems, and build strong, self‑sustaining capabilities across the organization. This is an opportunity to be at the center of Illumina’s innovation engine — shaping how we operate, elevating our performance, and influencing the way teams across the company work and grow. You’ll thrive here if you love solving complex challenges, navigating across diverse disciplines, and empowering, inspiring, and mentoring...

Location San Diego, CA Strong onsite presence required. This is not a remote role. We are seeking a strategic, results-driven Director, IT SAP Finance/Commercial to own the delivery, operations, and evolution of our SAP Finance and Commercial landscape (Finance plus Order-to-Cash/Commercial capabilities) within a complex global environment. In this senior leadership role, you will be accountable for end-to-end value realization across the S/4HANA transformation and ongoing product roadmap—balancing deep domain expertise with executive partnership, people leadership, vendor/portfolio management, and budget accountability. You will serve as a primary liaison between IT and Finance/Commercial leadership, ensuring our SAP ecosystem enables growth,...

Position Director, Strategic Finance Location San Diego, CA (Hybrid – 2–3 days onsite weekly) Will consider Northern CA / Foster City Reports To VP, Strategic & Bioinsight Finance The Director, Strategic Finance is a senior finance leader responsible for shaping and advancing Illumina’s enterprise growth agenda through financial leadership across mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships, alliances, joint ventures, divestitures, licensing arrangements, and new venture formation. The role serves as a trusted advisor to senior Finance and Executive Leadership, bringing rigorous financial analysis, strategic insight, and sound judgment to complex decisions that have meaningful enterprise impact. This role...

Head of Pharma Development We are seeking a visionary and strategic Head of Pharma Development to lead our pharmaceutical partnerships, data commercialization efforts, and AI-driven initiatives. This role will be instrumental in shaping the future of our pharma collaborations, driving innovation through data and technology, and unlocking new value across the drug development lifecycle. The successful candidate will report directly to the SVP of BioInsight and serve as a critical bridge between internal teams and external pharma stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership Define and execute the pharma development and data strategy aligned with organizational goals. Serve as the primary...

Responsibilities Provides phone, email, and/or live chat support to internal and external customers Demonstrates contact center best practices, team focus, and time management skills Attains sufficient technical and customer handling mastery to independently troubleshoot routine to moderately complex technical and account issues in a timely manner Coaching and supporting junior staff on best practices, processes, and assisting with resolution of moderate to complex issues when requested Assist team in the identification of sales opportunities and communication to the commercial team Provide technical guidance regarding the choice and use of the appropriate Illumina product to existing and prospective customers. Continuously grow...

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 to identify and resolve issues resourcefully and independently, and will work to understand key business drivers, applying...

We're seeking a driven and talented Validation Engineer to support manufacturing operations through close collaboration with cross‑functional partners. This role is critical in defining, implementing, and maintaining validation activities that ensure robust, compliant manufacturing processes and systems. The ideal candidate brings experience in quality engineering, process development, or process engineering, and can quickly develop while working independently within a fast‑paced, team‑oriented environment. As a Validation Engineer, you will play a key role in driving overall quality performance and compliance by leading validation deliverables and activities across manufacturing systems and processes. Responsibilities Represent the Consumable Validation group as the validation subject...

Position Senior Manager, M&A Corporate Development (Financial Modeling) Location San Diego (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. The corporate development team is responsible for shaping Illumina’s inorganic growth. This role will have primary responsibility to analyze new M&A, strategic investment, and divestiture opportunities and conduct comprehensive due diligence. This position will build and own detail, decision-range financial models to evaluate M&A opportunities,...

The Sequencing Sales Specialist role is a customer-facing, strategic and technical sales resource for the Illumina Sequencing and multiomic product portfolios. You will work as part of a team of account managers in achieving regional sales objectives, and closely monitor market and competitor activities. Location Boston/Cambridge Responsibilities Sales Works closely and effectively with a wide array of teams as an overlay sales specialist, including marketing, local Territory Account Managers, Insides Sales Reps, other Specialists (informatics, microarray, etc), and District Sales Managers to support them in achieving strategic and revenue goals Assists District Sales Manager and Territory Account Managers with the...

Reports To Senior VP, Head of Corporate Development & Strategic Planning The Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions serves as a senior enterprise leader responsible for shaping and executing Illumina’s global inorganic growth strategy in alignment with long-term corporate objectives. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, finance, and business leadership, driving disciplined capital allocation and portfolio evolution through acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic investments. This leader will define and operate a strategic and anticipatory M&A and corporate development strategy, grounded in deep industry insight, competitive intelligence, and enterprise priorities. The role requires not only excellence in transaction...

About the Role Clinical genomics labs today run multiple disconnected applications, creating manual handoffs, transcription errors, and significant integration overhead per site. The future of this space is a unified orchestration layer that connects every step from sample intake to clinical insight, powered by intelligent automation and AI. We’re building that future. As a Staff Product Manager on the Orchestration team, you’ll own the vision and execution of our workflow orchestration platform. You’ll define the capabilities, core concepts, and user experiences that tie together instruments, software systems, and data across the lab and drive adoption from early validation through broad...

Location San Diego, CA. Must currently reside in the San Diego metropolitan area or be able to commute independently. No relocation assistance is available for this hybrid role. The Senior Manager for Digital Collaboration Services leads the team responsible for delivering and evolving Illumina’s global email and collaboration services in Microsoft 365 with a strong focus on security, resiliency, governance, and user experience. This role owns the operational health and roadmap execution across core M365 workloads (e.g., Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Viva Engage) and is an AI evangelist that drives adoption and governance for Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents...

The HVAC-R Technician IV is a senior-level technical specialist responsible for the advanced operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of complex heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC-R) systems. This position serves as a subject matter expert (SME) for HVAC-R and central plant systems, supporting mission-critical operations through technical leadership, independent problem-solving, and mentorship of other technicians. Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Perform advanced diagnostics, maintenance, and repair of complex HVAC-R systems, including air handling units, chillers, boilers, cooling towers, exhaust systems, refrigeration equipment, and associated electrical and control systems. - Lead preventive and predictive maintenance activities for HVAC-R and central...

Illumina's BioInsight organization develops and commercializes the world's leading genomics analysis software — from DRAGEN and Emedgene to cloud platforms like ICA and BaseSpace — serving thousands of clinical, research, and pharmaceutical customers worldwide. The BioInsight leadership team operates at high velocity across a complex portfolio, and the demand for executive-quality content — presentations, strategic narratives, competitive briefings, investor materials, and internal communications — consistently outpaces the capacity of our product marketing team. As Sr Staff Executive Marketing Manager, you are the dedicated content engine for BioInsight's executive leadership. You take ambiguous ideas, incomplete briefs, and verbal direction from SVP/VP-level...

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...

Illumina's BioInsight organization develops and commercializes enterprise grade genomics analysis SW that deploy worldwide in the cloud and on-prem to maximize the value of the data generated from our world-class sequencing instruments. DRAGEN is our flagship bioinformatics platform — the industry standard for fast, accurate secondary analysis used by thousands of labs worldwide. As a Staff Software Technical Product Manager — DRAGEN, you join a high-performing team at a moment of significant growth and transition. You own a defined product area within the DRAGEN portfolio, drive roadmap execution and cross-functional alignment, and help an overextended team keep pace with accelerating...

The Senior Staff Outbound Product Manager is a market-facing, commercially focused technical product leader responsible for translating product strategy and capabilities into clear customer value, differentiated positioning, and scalable go‑to‑market execution. This role sits at the intersection of Product, Marketing, Sales, and Customers, ensuring that our software products resonate with enterprise life sciences customers and drive measurable business impact. At the Senior Staff level, this role operates with strategic autonomy, influences portfolio‑level decisions, and serves as a voice of the customer and market authority across multiple products or platforms. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in life sciences software, strong...

We are looking for a Senior Staff HR Business Partner (HRBP) as a key leader within the Commercial and Marketing Human Resources team in San Diego. Our HR team is highly collaborative, creative, and passionate about the work we do to further our mission through our people practices. You will partner with your client leadership to provide world-class human capital strategies, processes, and solutions and support the organization in developing, retaining, and hiring the best talent in the industry to further define the next era of genomics. This position reports to the Director, HRBP for the global Commercial functions and...

The Senior Informatics Sales Specialist will use their strong genomics and Informatics technical knowledge and expertise to identify and close Informatics opportunities. This involves selling to prospective customers and Illumina colleagues on Next Generation Sequencing and Genomic data analysis pipelines, applications and products primarily for use in research and academia. They will act as an influencer and expert resource for customers and others to ensure success while enabling sales growth through strategic activities and creative problem solving. The Informatics Sales Specialist should be viewed as a “go to” subject matter expert for all things Informatics, with primary focus on Illumina’s...

In partnership with the Global Operational Excellence (OE) organization, this role supports Lean-driven improvements at the Illumina-Madison site by serving as a coach and subject-matter resource to teams, facilitating the application of OE tools, and supporting sustainment of key site OE systems that improve cost, quality, and production performance. The role focuses on enabling continuous improvement capability through collaboration, participation in training delivery, and influence within assigned projects or value streams rather than direct ownership of operational execution. Tasks and Responsibilities Culture Development & Strategy Support Influence and collaborate effectively to engage stakeholders to promote and support process improvement initiatives...

The Equipment Maintenance Technician is part of the equipment engineer team who provides expertise, service, and support to San Diego Illumina headquarters by maintaining equipment at world class levels in a fast pace regulated environment and providing high level reliability exceeding Illumina’s dynamic development and manufacturing demands. The Equipment Maintenance Technician 3 will support the day-to-day manufacturing equipment maintenance operations by owning high-complexity maintenance tasks and challenges with minimal supervision. This individual will work in a dynamic team-oriented environment that supports multiple operations and technologies to help Illumina deliver its highly complex product pipeline in a reliable and sustainable manner....

Staff Facilities Engineer - US1 Summary The Staff Facilities Engineer will be part of the San Diego Facilities Engineering team. This role will be responsible for providing technical expertise as related to mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems within facilities equipment engineering, support maintenance, and/or calibration and equipment performance optimization. Including projects related to mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems in an FDA regulated environment. The individual will possess technical knowledge of facilities water purification (RO/DI) skids, HVAC, chillers, centralized gas distribution systems, walk-in cold storage units, clean rooms, BMS/EMS system, Electrical generation and distribution system for Low, Medium and High...

The Associate Director, Operational Excellence is a pivotal leader and true partner across every function at Illumina. In this role, you’ll collaborate directly with the leadership team to drive high‑impact transformations that fuel our company strategy, deploy our Operational Excellence business systems, and build strong, self‑sustaining capabilities across the organization. This is an opportunity to be at the center of Illumina’s innovation engine — shaping how we operate, elevating our performance, and influencing the way teams across the company work and grow. You’ll thrive here if you love solving complex challenges, navigating across diverse disciplines, and empowering, inspiring, and mentoring...

Location San Diego, CA This position is a Hybrid role required to be at the San Diego HQ Office 2 days per week. Illumina’s USCAN Sales Operations team is looking for a strong operations business partner to join as a Sr. Sales Operations Analyst. This role is expected to drive sales standardization and continuous improvement in systems, processes, and business operations to achieve commercial sales objectives. Highlighted responsibilities of this role include executing the sales teams’ vision through quota, territory, pipeline, and account management. The ideal candidate is an experienced data-driven decision maker and a confident communicator. Success on...

The MTT Systems Infrastructure team is a part of Global Operations and has responsibility for the design, development, and support of custom and configured product manufacturing software systems. As a Software Engineer, you will develop software-based solutions to manufacturing challenges. You will work with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Contract Manufacturers and other engineering groups to develop software solutions for new product manufacture and sustain and improve software systems for existing products. You will join a dynamic, fast-paced organization supporting new product development teams, as well as sustaining operations. You will be adept at balancing multiple project priorities and will be able...