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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role Join WRITER's security team as a staff detection and response engineer and help protect the AI infrastructure that's transforming how the world works. You'll build sophisticated detection systems that identify attacks targeting our AI platform, training data, and model deployments while creating automated response capabilities that scale with our explosive growth. This isn't just traditional security work – you're defending cutting-edge AI/AGI systems against adversaries who are evolving their tactics as fast as AI itself advances. This role combines hands-on security engineering with strategic thinking to stay ahead of novel threats that don't exist in textbooks yet. You'll be the operational arm of our security function, translating threat intelligence into real-time detections, coordinating incident response across multiple teams, and hunting for sophisticated attacks across GPU clusters and distributed training environments. If you're excited by the challen

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a Senior Product Manager , you will own GitLab's Secret Detection offering and the Vulnerability Research function that produces the detection content across security products. Secret Detection is one of the highest-signal, highest-volume security capabilities on the platform. Leaked credentials are the most common initial access vector in real breaches, and as AI agents write, commit, and configure more of the software, the surface area for exposed secrets grows faster than the number of humans watching it. You will own the full loop: detect a secret with high precision, tell the customer whether it i

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -86.3%

From $123.7K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Pinterest is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to build and implement detection and response improvements and adapt to emerging threats to protect employees and infrastructure. In this role you will have the opportunity to solve challenging problems and provide a meaningful impact on our overall security posture. We are looking for a candidate with a passion for both security and innovation. What you'll do: Build alerts and automation workflows to improve capabilities to detect and response to external and internal security threats Manage our logging pipelines and infrastructure and onboard new logging sources to improve our detection coverage Develop and maintain internal tooling to expand and automate team detection and response capabilities Respond to alerts generated from our tooling and run incidents as part of an on-call rotation Co

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role As a Security Engineer on Detection & Response, you’ll help protect OpenAI’s most sensitive assets– including our intellectual property, customer data, and the infrastructure that supports them– by building and operating the systems we use to detect suspicious activity and respond effectively when it matters. You’ll work across endpoints, identity, cloud, hyperscale compute infrastructure, and datacenter-adjacent layers, partnering closely with security teams and infrastructure owners to define the telemetry and response requirements we need and building tooling and automation where it delivers the most leverage. In this role, you will: Build and evolve Detection & Response capabilities across OpenAI’s infrastructure, products, and research environments, with an emphasis on high-signal detection and reliable operational response. Engineer detection pipelines and tooling: develop rule lifecycle management, measurement/quality loops (coverage, precision, latency), tuning processes, and safe rollout patterns. Automate response and investigations by building workflows that reduce toil (triage, enrichment, containment, evidence capture) and improve time-to-understand/time-to-contain. Partner with other Security teams and system/infrastructure owners across the company to ensure new systems ship with the right telemetry, threat models, and response playbooks from day one. Define D&R requirements and drive visibility across endpoin

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📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $96.6K/yr

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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Detection Analyst to join our team. This is a Remote (USA Only) role, reporting to the Detection Analyst Manager in the Detection Operations Team. You will utilize our advanced detection platform to analyze EDR telemetry, alerts, and log sources across key detection domains—including Endpoint, Identity, Network, and Cloud—to identify and publish threats for our Managed Detection and Response customers. By driving projects that improve our workflow through orchestration and automation, you will ensure our customers receive high-fidelity threat analysis and concise, actionable communication regarding emerging threats at scale. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Analyze EDR telemetry, alerts, and log sources across several detection domains including Endpoint, Identity, Network, and Cloud/SaaS Publish threats for customers using concisely written communication to effectively convey key indica

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -80.6%

$155K – $400K/yr

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About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About The Role The Security Team is responsible for securing all things Sentry: our customers, our code, and everything in between. We are a small but growing team with broad scope, high trust, and the autonomy to tackle hard security problems with creativity and an engineering mindset. We work at a company with a strong developer culture, building a product that millions of developers genuinely love and rely on. That context shapes everything about how we operate. We take a pragmatic approach to preventing and responding to security risks. In this role not only will you build and contribute to systems which detect malicious activity, you will have the unique opportunity to implement new controls to prevent future incidents. You will work across detection and response and corporate security domains. You'll contribute to practices that keep Sentry secure as we grow: alert triage for corporate and production, detection engineering, deploying preventative controls, identity and access management, investigations and incident response, and more. You'll partner with teams across the company to prevent and respond to security incidents. You will work as a technical collaborator who prioritizes preventative controls, defense in depth, and high signal alerting practices. As Sentry expands our agentic product capabilities and development practices, you'll also find yourself at the frontier of a new set of security approaches and challenges. In this role, you will Maintain, improve, and own detection engineering systems. We own and operate our own detection stack and are building agentic triage with thoughtful security response and orc

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📍 New York City, NY, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -99.2%

From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role Join our growing security team and help drive security detection and response initiatives across Ramp. This will include a focus on maturing our security detection and alerting capabilities across our federal and public sector environments. Please note that this role will require you to be comfortable with working in-person at our NYC HQ (located near Madison Square Park) at least 2 days/week What You’ll Do Respond and assist with security requests and incidents submitted by Ramp team members Review logging, alerting, and audit sources to identify potential security incidents and perform initial triage on identified incidents Contribute to the creation, upkeep, and tuning of runbooks and security alerts to effectively handle, triage, and improve security alerts Work closely with the Ramp Security Engineers to improve security alerting and automated remediation Utilize log ingestion platform for security analytics and identification of tactics, techniques and patterns of attackers Design and implement automation to detect and respond t

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📍 Arizona, Phoenix, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +315.4%
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Job Details: Job Description: The Role and Impact As a Manufacturing Quality and Reliability Engineer, you will be instrumental in ensuring high-volume manufacturing ramps meet Intel's rigorous quality and reliability standards. On a day-to-day basis, you will evaluate materials, processes, and techniques used in production, conduct quality audits, and develop systems for early detection and containment of potential issues. Your work will directly enhance Intel's ability to deliver high-performing products while fostering a culture of continuous improvement across manufacturing operations. Business Group You will be joining Intel Foundry, a world-class manufacturing organization dedicated to driving innovation and excellence across Intel's operations. This team focuses on ensuring quality and reliability in product engineering, manufacturing, and supplier collaborations, contributing to Intel's broader mission of delivering cutting-edge technology solutions. By leveraging data-driven insights and advanced methodologies, the group plays a critical role in supporting Intel's leadership in semiconductor technology. Key Responsibilities - Drive manufacturing ramp qualifications to ensure processes and products meet quality and reliability standards. - Specify inspection and testing mechanisms to monitor product and production equipment compliance. - Conduct in-depth quality assessments and audits to identify improvement opportunities. - Lead initiatives to optimize cost, ramp, and production volume efforts while maintaining quality. - Collaborate with product engineering forums to recommend design or process improvements for enhanced reliability. - Develop proactive systems and capabilities for early detection and containment of discrepancies. - Manage ma

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -85.2%

From $280K/yr

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The Detection Platform organization is responsible for helping customers identify, understand, and act on issues across their environments through alerting, event intelligence, and autonomous detection capabilities. As Director, Detection Platform, you will lead a group of engineering managers and teams responsible for foundational alerting infrastructure, event management, monitor creation experiences, and AI-powered detection systems. This role sits at the center of Datadog’s efforts to evolve how customers detect, investigate, and respond to operational issues at massive scale. You will partner closely with Product Management, Applied Science, Design, and Engineering leaders to shape the future of detection and observability experiences for Datadog customers while leading a growing organization of engineers. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Lead a multi-team engineering organization responsible for alerting, event management, monitor creation experiences, and autonomous detection capabilities. Define and execute the technical and organizational strategy for the Detection Platform while aligning stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Design, and Applied Science. Drive innovation in AI-powered detection, anomaly identification, and signal generation that helps customers proactively identify and resolve issues. Scale highly available platform systems that process hundreds of millions of evaluations while maintaining reliability, performance, and operational excellence. Develop and mentor engineering managers and technical leaders, fostering a culture of execution, collaboration, and technical rigor. Champion customer-centric product thinking by balancing platform investments with intuitive user experiences and measurable customer

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📍 California, United States
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$155.6K – $233.4K/yr

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What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. 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 ISO and FDA requirements and their applicability to products targeting different markets Report broadly through the organization on validation activities and instrument manufacturing audit readiness Estimate timelines and budgeting for validation engineering development efforts Formaliz

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📍 New, Albuquerque, United States
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Job Details: Job Description: The Role and Impact As a Manufacturing Quality and Reliability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the flawless production and reliability of Intel products. You will manage the qualification of manufacturing ramps to high volume, specifying inspection and testing mechanisms, and conducting quality assessments to confirm compliance with industry-leading standards. Through your expertise, you will drive continuous process improvement, proactively address quality challenges, and optimize cost and production scalability, contributing to Intel's commitment to delivering groundbreaking innovation. Business group The Quality Systems Organization within Intel Foundry is dedicated to ensuring the excellence and dependability of Intel's manufacturing operations and processes. This team focuses on developing and implementing robust quality systems, supporting Intel's broader mission to deliver world-class technological solutions to customers. By fostering a culture of proactive improvement, the group plays a critical role in advancing Intel's manufacturing capabilities. Key Responsibilities - Own the qualification of manufacturing ramps to high volume, ensuring products and processes meet quality and reliability standards. - Develop inspection and testing mechanisms and conduct audits to assess compliance with established quality benchmarks. - Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality systems and foster a culture of proactive quality management. - Manage excursion events, change control processes, and supplier audits while driving supplier performance improvements. - Represent the quality and reliability function in product engineering and development forums, offering recommendations to enhance system, process, and product reliability. - Develop systems for early detection and containment of excursions and con

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -85.2%

From $192K/yr

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As Engineering Manager for Threat Detection, you will lead a high-performing team that powers Datadog's detection program. Threat Detection is the organization responsible for keeping Datadog ahead of an evolving threat environment: closing coverage gaps faster, raising the bar on signal quality, and shipping detections that hold up under the scale and complexity of cloud-native infrastructure. Your team will combine direct detection expertise, platform engineering, and applied AI to ship detections at a pace and scale traditional rule-writing alone cannot match. Examples of what your team will work on include detection-authoring agents, the detection platform that powers every rule in production, coverage analysis, alert triage and response automation, and the evaluation infrastructure that holds these systems to a high bar of fidelity. Detection authorship is a shared responsibility across the organization, and your team will contribute both by building the systems that scale our authoring capacity and by writing detections directly when their domain expertise is the right tool. You will partner closely with our Security Incident & Response Team (SIRT), Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), AI Engineering teams, and Datadog's broader Security organization. This is a high-impact leadership role: you will grow a team of security and software engineers responsible for building and executing our detection and AI strategy. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Datadog Security's shift to AI-accelerated detection and response. Drive development of high-fidelity detections as a shared responsibility across the organization, ensuring your team's systems and direct contributions raise the bar on coverage and

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role As a Security Engineer you will join our OpenAI engineers and researchers in building, operating and securing transformational AI technologies. This role will focus on all aspects of Detection & Response but with a strong emphasis on detecting insider threats and influencing controls to safeguard OpenAI's most sensitive assets. In this role, you will: In this role, you will: Innovate on Detection and Response infrastructure to engineer and automate end-to-end detection and investigation workflows. Develop, measure, and tune detection rules to ensure effective and sustainable operations. Drive projects across OpenAI’s technology stack with a focus on insider threats, ranging from access abuse and intellectual property theft to novel risks emerging within AI infrastructure. Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including HR, Legal, and peer investigative teams, providing technical expertise and evidence to support investigations. Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture. You might thrive in this role if you: 5+ years experience working in a detection/response or insider-risk role.. We are seeking mid-level and senior candidates. You have broad familiarity with operating systems and platforms such as macOS, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes, along with experience in cloud infrastructure. Knowledge of modern adversary tactics and attack paths, data exfiltration techniques, and h

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📍 California, United States
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$155.6K – $233.4K/yr

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What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. 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 and next generation sequencing. The candidate should be a proven team player and will contribute to the production software codebase. This role will focus on software development for structural variant detection, pangenome references, graph-based algorithms, and NGS assembly methods. Responsibilities: Design, prototype, and implement innovative computational or statistical algorithms to extract meaningful biological signal from sequencing assays. Im

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📍 California, United States
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$74.9K – $112.3K/yr

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What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. 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 completing tasks or assignments, conceives of new ways to analyze the data and present it. Makes detailed technical observations and documents them in laboratory notebooks and confluence pages, etc. Plans, conducts, summarizes, reports consistent conclusions, and generates recommendations for follow up experiments and may suggest alternate strategies. <

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