Senior Staff GenAI Engineer

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences diagnostics and biotechnology

At Cepheid one of Danahers 15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.

At Cepheid we are passionate about improving health care through fast accurate molecular diagnostic systems and tests. As a member of our team youll get to make an immediate measurable impact on a global scale within an environment that fosters career growth and development. Our mission drives us to develop groundbreaking solutions for the worlds most complex health challenges. Together we bring MORE change to the world.

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The Senior Staff GenAI Engineer leads the design development and deployment of scalable reliable generative AI systems driving agentic automation and integration to deliver highimpact productiongrade solutions across the organization.

This position reports to Sr. Director Biochip Data Science and Digital Solutions and is part of the Data Science and Digital Solutions team located in Sunnyvale CA and will be an on-site role.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Architect implement and operationalize advanced agentic AI frameworks that autonomously retrieve context generate insights and drive automated reporting and decisionsupport across research product and engineering workflows.
• Own the full GenAI system lifecycle endtoend from problem framing and model development to scalable deployment ensuring systems meet strict requirements for reliability performance observability and longterm maintainability.
• Design build and finetune GenAI models and services capable of integrating with diverse data sources APIs and enterprise applications enabling seamless multimodal reasoning retrieval and intelligent automation.
• Partner closely with crossfunctional teams including R&D product and engineering to validate use cases shape technical strategy and deliver productiongrade GenAI solutions from ideation through launch.
• Champion engineering excellence in AI development driving best practices for experimentation workflows model governance evaluation methodologies safety reviews monitoring and ML Ops to ensure highquality production-grade solutions.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Masters degree in software engineering computer science or a similar field with 10 years of related work experience OR PhD degree with 8 years of related work experience.
• Strong background in LLMs GenAI architectures and agentic systems with experience in model fine tuning prompt engineering and retrieval augmented generation.
• Hands-on experience across the technology software stack including cloud platforms (AWS Azure) database technologies (SQL Server PostgreSQL DynamoDB) and server-side systems (event pipelines distributed computing and storage) with a strong track record in designing high-performance back-end and front-end services.
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks experience with agentassistant coding frameworks and strong ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across models codebases and distributed systems.
• Expertise in using modern automated deployment CI/CD and test frameworks with proven experience delivering and operating largescale models in production environments.

Cepheid a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The annual salary range for this role is $200000 - $235000 USD. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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