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Without question, the single greatest contributing factor to our success is our talented and ambitious team. Our team has led the development of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies that have transformed medical genetics and biological research.

We are looking for highly motivated and skilled professionals with proven skills in their discipline who enjoy working in a collaborative environment. Personalis is recruiting for a number of positions in research and development, bioinformatics, curation, sequencing accuracy, sales, marketing, and intellectual property. This opportunity to work within an entrepreneurial environment offers tremendous opportunities for personal or professional growth with competitive and fair benefits and compensation. We are committed to provide necessary training and development for our employees. We want you to build new skills, expand your knowledge and tackle new opportunities.

Personalis is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified applications without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. We are committed to a diverse workforce for all levels, including senior management.

Our values

Personalis recognizes that its employees are both its most valuable asset and its most important investment. The success of the organization is reliant upon each individual’s significant contribution to our corporate culture and goals. Our core values are:

Integrity
Respect
Teamwork and collaboration
Commitment to scientific excellence
Dedication to discovery and innovation
Passion

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Using their talent to make a meaningful impact on people’s lives

Erin Newburn
Director, Field Application Scientist

What 3 words describe your role?
Supportive, intriguing, and challenging.

What do you like best about working at Personalis?
The customer interactions. I like helping to address their questions and offer assistance for particular needs they may have in their project. There are also so many creative and novel approaches being taken in immunotherapy research (various drug combinations and hypotheses being studied) – it is gratifying to be a part of their efforts.

Siyawash Safa
Manager, RUO Operations - Extractions

What 3 words describe your role?
Evolving, fun, and challenging.

What do you like best about working at Personalis?
I think the fact that it’s constantly changing. Part of it that there’s always room for improvement. There are always new things that I haven’t learned before. And the fact that we’re on the frontline in terms of fighting cancer.

Pamela Milani
Manager, Assay R&D

What 3 words describe your role?
Intense, challenging, rewarding.

What do you like best about working at Personalis?
First, it gives me the possibility to keep learning. When I started, immuno-oncology was a new field for me, and it’s been great to learn about it. This is very important to me, I’m a learning junkie. Second, my team. My team has great chemistry and that’s extremely important to me: you have to spend a
lot of time with your teammates every day. We always help each other even if everyone has different projects.

Berkay Polat
Software Engineer

What 3 words describe your role?
Intellectually challenging and thought-provoking, sometimes frustrating (dealing with tricky bugs can certainly have that effect on software engineers), and most importantly fun!

What do you like best about working at Personalis?
Every day brings a new challenge. I also like the team culture we have going on in our software team. I believe we have a culture that enables innovation and micro leadership/ entrepreneurship within the niche areas of work. Within the first year of my career here, I was given the opportunity to take the responsibility of the full-stack and DevOps integration of one of our products, Aggregate Report Tool (aka ART). Something like this is certainly one of the perks that you don’t easily get anywhere else but in Personalis. It is very self-fulling in a way.

Aniruddhan Govindaraman
Software Engineer Bioinformatics – Operations

What 3 words describe your role?
Captivating, challenging and rewarding.

What do you like best about working at Personalis?
I’ve always been motivated to support Cancer research and treatment. Here at Personalis, apart from the facts that the team is great, supportive, and creates a conducive environment to facilitate growth and leadership (big thanks to the Harris and the team), I enjoy the open ended nature of the role and that almost every day brings forth a new challenge. One of the biggest plus points has been the opportunity to interact and work with different teams within the company, and this has given me an insight into finer details of the big picture.

Eric Levy
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

What 3 words describe your role?
Exciting, rewarding and motivating.

What do you like best about working at Personalis?
I am pretty strongly motivated by the mission of supporting cancer treatment. I knew I wanted to focus on human disease-oriented research as a career. Also, I like that we’re on the cutting edge on the research and technology side. It’s exciting to be forward looking, trying to build the vision of the future. And the team is great!