# Senior Commercialization Process Engineer

Natera is seeking a Senior Commercialization Process Engineer to serve as the critical bridge between assay development and scalable lab production. This bench-level role is embedded early in the NPI process, working alongside Molecular Assay Development, Bioinformatics, Engineering, and Lab Operations teams to ensure that new oncology products are designed for production from day one, not retrofitted for scale after launch. This is not a steady-state production role. This person thrives in the ambiguous, fast-moving space between R&D and operations, identifying workflow gaps, bridging informatics and lab systems, and ensuring that what gets built can be run at commercial scale reliably and repeatably. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Embed within New Product Introduction (NPI) programs from feasibility through design transfer, providing bench-level lab operations perspective on workflow design, automation feasibility, and scalability requirements Partner with Molecular Assay Development, Pathology, Automation, Software Engineering, and other teams to evaluate molecular workflows (WES, WGS, RNA-Seq) and tissue-based workflows (histology, H&E, IHC) for operational readiness, identifying des

- **Id**: 3784071
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/natera-senior-commercialization-process-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Carlos, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T23:14:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:46:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7359
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Diagnostic Tests & IVD, Genomics & Genetic Testing, Precision Medicine

## Company

- **Id**: 3078
- **Name**: Natera
- **Domain**: natera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/natera>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0.077
- **Stale share**: 0.59
- **Repost share**: 0.154
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 40
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 141636
- **Max**: 177045
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 177045

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **Immunohistochemistry** — Optional: no
- **LIMS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T02:39:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 74 · green card filings: 31; Filings 12m: 74

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 40
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 177045
- **Is top pay**: yes

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