Engineer 2 - Process Development (Quality Control)

About the role

Illumina is hiring an Engineer 2 for its Process Development team within a high-volume, multi-product manufacturing quality control environment. The role provides technical and operational support to process development, improvement and sustaining efforts, and works with other functions to develop or improve QC processes for new products and sustain and improve those for existing products.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in process sustaining, definition and improvement, design, development and quality testing activities
• Help establish operating processes, QC specifications and improvements
• Troubleshoot quality control line issues related to yield and quality
• Construct and run experiments to address yield and quality issues, and drive implementation of solutions in production to meet production goals
• Run process optimization experiments for process release into production, analyze test results and issue reports, and make technical recommendations
• Work cross-functionally with R&D, Manufacturing and Quality to develop and improve QC processes for new and existing products
• Define technical requirements and procedures for the QC manufacturing process

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in science or engineering, or a master's degree or equivalent in a chemical, biochemical, biochemistry or bio-related field
• 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in research product development and project management
• Experience with library prep kits
• Experience in the biotech or pharmaceutical industries is desirable

Required skills

• Proficiency with biochemical processes and analysis
• Ability to apply DOE techniques and Statistical Process Control knowledge
• Ability to analyze data and draw logical conclusions
• Good documentation skills, including writing procedures and training manuals
• Good inter-departmental communication and independent work ability