Staff Engineer, Process Development & Automation

Staff Engineer, Process Development & Automation at Exact Sciences summary:

The Staff Engineer, Process Development & Automation at Exact Sciences leads engineering projects focused on developing and implementing automation and digital pathology technologies for histopathology labs. This role involves system integration, validation, equipment performance assessment, and continuous improvement to optimize laboratory workflows in regulated environments. The position also includes mentoring, supporting change management, and ensuring compliance with FDA, CLIA, and CAP standards.

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Position Overview

The Staff Engineer, Process Development & Automation will play a pivotal role in Exact Sciences’ expansion and transformation of its histopathology laboratory portfolio, including the launch of a new greenfield lab in Madison, WI, alongside established labs in Redwood City, CA and Phoenix, AZ. This position partners closely with Preanalytical Engineering (PAE) technical leaders to develop and implement cutting-edge automation and digital pathology technologies across all histopathology sites.

The Staff Engineer will gain deep, site-specific insight into Madison’s histopathology workflows, collaborating with laboratory leaders to understand operational needs and drive automation tailored to the new lab. Acting as a technical lead for assigned projects, the Staff Engineer will support initiatives such as LIMS and IT systems integration, equipment performance assessment, validation, and ongoing sustainment. This role will engage directly with users to address change management and user adoption challenges, ensuring successful technology implementation and continuous improvement.

The Staff Engineer will also partner with the ESI service organization to transfer critical site-specific knowledge for long-term sustainment and support

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Contributes ideas and insights to new technologies, testing methodologies, applications, techniques, or procedures that are creative and practical.

• Provides input for project design & development.

• Accurately estimates task effort, including work by others.

• Develops process architectures and functional specifications based on user and workflow requirements.

• Leads planning activities and conducts complex engineering design, platform eligibility testing, systems integration, or performance testing.

• Makes decisions that involve the consideration of complex issues.

• Works autonomously and checks-in with supervisor/project lead as decisions are made.

• Responds to change with flexibility and adapts quickly.

• Discusses and presents factual information to other members of the same organization;
Ability to convey very complex information in both written and oral form.

• Actively and constructively contributes to other’s designs through design reviews within same organization.

• Facilitates reuse by communicating available technologies and opportunities within the organization.

• Able to influence others and gain acceptance and build consensus.

• Ability to manage moderately complex projects and initiatives, typically within one platform or business organization.

• Acts as a mentor / role model for junior team members on technical issues.

• Ability to apply project leadership skills in planning, delegating, influencing, and managing priorities.

• Beginning to demonstrate leadership behaviors: humility, will, best team and vision.

• Demonstrates understanding of company’s internal and external customer needs and how they affect business unit products and services.

• Brings company and industry knowledge as well as creative technical/scientific skills to product creation; recognized as a content, sub-discipline specialist across the company.

• Work with project managers…