Quality Control Technologist

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Chicago, IL
Hybrid
1-3 Years Experience
Big Data • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Analytics • Biotech
Tempus is a data-driven precision medicine company bringing the power of data and artificial intelligence to healthcare.
The Role
The Quality Control Technologist will support quality control processes in a high-volume clinical molecular laboratory, including maintaining compliance, performing maintenance, testing reagents, managing inventory, and providing training to lab staff. The role also involves reporting findings and updating SOPs.
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Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

With the advent of genomic sequencing, we can finally decode and process our genetic makeup. We now have more data than ever before but providers don't have the infrastructure or expertise to make sense of this data. We're on a mission to connect an entire ecosystem to redefine how genomic data is used in clinical settings. We are looking for a Quality Control Technologist who will be responsible for maintaining equipment and reagent compliance for a clinical molecular lab.

What You’ll Do:

  • Work within a cutting-edge genomics workflow to provide quality control support in a high-volume clinical molecular laboratory.
  • Help create and implement new equipment functionality for use by Tempus R&D and clinical lab staff while maintaining CLIA/CAP/NYS-DOH/ISO compliance.
  • Complete Performance Qualifications (PQs), Preventive Maintenance (PM), relocation, and routine maintenance for all clinically approved molecular laboratory equipment. 
  • Test and document new lots of reagents for clinical lab team processing and label reagents approved for use.
  • Maintain reagent qualification records and manage quality control of reagent inventory.
  • Collect and help analyze metrics.
  • Investigate issues and help facilitate and implement corrective and preventative actions.
  • Interact with lab management and personnel to provide training, troubleshoot issues, and prioritize QC tasks.
  • Report significant findings/deviations and system deficiencies to lab management, as appropriate.
  • Update SOPs and equipment records within the document control system, including creation/ revision/ review of internal SOPs and other quality documentation. 
  • Create and review protocols and qualification summaries.
  • Monitor and respond to laboratory temperature excursions.

Qualifications:

  • Highly organized and systematic, superb attention to detail and ability to complete tasks with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Proven ability to learn new skills quickly and adapt to new processes smoothly.
  • BS in medical technology, clinical laboratory science, chemical, physical or biological science.
    • Prefer at least 1 year of previous experience in a molecular lab or with laboratory liquid handlers.
  • Moderate experience with Microsoft Excel and/ or Google Sheets.
  • Previous experience in a clinical lab regulated by CAP/ CLIA/ NYS/ ISO is highly desirable.
  • Good time management skills.
  • Able to lift 40lbs occasionally, highly desirable. 


We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.


Additionally, for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles – including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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The Company
Chicago, IL
2,247 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. With one of the world’s largest libraries of clinical and molecular data, and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful, Tempus enables physicians to make near real-time, data-driven decisions to deliver personalized patient care and in parallel facilitates discovery, development and delivery of optimal therapeutics. The goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing physicians with tools that learn as the company gathers more data. For more information, visit tempus.com.

Why Work With Us

We're looking for those who challenge the status quo. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We're looking for unwavering commitment and undying curiosity. We're looking for the smartest people on the planet to attack one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Most of the team follows a hybrid policy, with some roles allowing for a fully remote arrangement and some roles being onsite only.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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