You'll be amazed at what you can do at Illumina. We're a growing, global company with exciting careers in almost any discipline you can imagine. Here, you'll discover roles that allow you to build on your expertise, tap new talents, or develop new interests. Explore our areas of opportunity, and hear what our team members have to say about our environment and our work.





From left to right: Jessica, Business Systems Analyst,
Giovanna, Project Manager,
Jon, Supervisor, Training and Development
Philippe, Financial Controller

Engineering

This is the group that makes things happen: turning concepts into producible products…applying, refining, and adapting our core technologies to enhance and expand our portfolios…and rethinking and fine-tuning our work to ensure our efficiency. Here, engineers from many backgrounds and disciplines come together, combining their knowledge and efforts to create revolutionary products. It's a fast—paced, dynamic area where you'll need to wear several hats in order to work effectively with groups from Research and Development to Planning, and from Materials to Manufacturing.

You'll work with the best-some of the brightest minds in the industry-and have access to technologies and resources others only dream about. It's a real hands-on role. If you're looking for a career with real impact, you'll find it here.

Explore the opportunities available in Engineering, including:

  • Process Engineers
  • Optical Engineers
  • Electronic Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Technical Writers
  • Software Engineers
  • Manufacturing Engineers


Jessica, Business Systems Analyst at Illumina
Jessica, Business Systems Analyst

Research

In our business, innovation is everything. At Illumina, we're continually exploring, taking our technologies into areas no one has ever thought of before. Just as importantly, we are developing innovative products that are meeting specific customer needs. Our balanced approach to innovation has not only helped drive our commercial success but has made us the leader in our industry. It's given us the momentum that will carry us into the future.

Our research team is continually growing because we're branching into new areas, from life sciences to diagnostics and applied markets. We're pushing the envelope in a lot of areas—taking our industry and the medical field into new, uncharted territory. To do that, we need people from a variety of scientific disciplines.

There's always a new challenge. We work in such a fast-paced environment that everything we do is new and exciting. Miss a day at Illumina and you've missed a lot.

If you're ready to take your career into bold new areas, we need to talk.

Explore the opportunities available in Research, including:

  • Biologists
  • Chemists
  • Biochemists
  • Biomedical Engineers
  • Immunologists
  • Microbiologists
  • Scientists
  • Bioinformatic
  • Research Associates

Giovanna, Project Manager at Illumina
Giovanna, Project Manager

Manufacturing

Looking for an environment that's ever changing? In our manufacturing area, we produce the most innovative and technologically advanced products in this industry—instruments, application components, and other consumables—and we're continually enhancing our products, so they're always a step ahead.

As a member of our manufacturing team, you'll have a real impact on our bottom line. We've built our business on meeting the needs and demands of our customers, and you'll play an extremely important role. You'll work with state-of-the-art technologies, and be exposed to new processes, materials, components, and machinery before they even hit the market. And when we combine them to create a solution for one of our customers, it really gets exciting.

You'll find Illumina manufacturing facilities in San Diego and Hayward, California; in Chesterford, UK; and in Singapore.

Explore the many opportunities available in Manufacturing, including:

  • Manufacturing Technicians
  • Technical Trainers
  • Materials Managements
  • Manufacturing Engineers
  • Inventory Controls


Commercial operations

Most people associate our success as an organization with the technologies we produce. But we think it goes deeper than that. We think it's based on our ability to provide a total customer experience, and how we service and support our customers at every single touch point.

Our mission is to provide the highest level of customer satisfaction throughout their experience with the organization. Our commercial operations team is home to sales, marketing, customer solutions and support, and business development, which also includes alliance management. Each of these groups has a different function, but they all work together to give a wonderful experience to our customers.

Whether it's handling a customer call or building a university alliance, making a sale or building a sales campaign, our Commercial Operations team makes sure every contact we have with our customer gives the same message. We're working together, you & i.

Explore the opportunities available in Commercial Operations, including:

  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Customer Solutions
  • Business Development
  • Alliance Management
  • Public Relations
  • Corporate Communications


Tristan Orpin, SVP, Commercial Operations at Illumina
Tristan Orpin, SVP, Commercial Operations

Administration

Our industry has a tremendous future, and Illumina is going to play a great part in it. Today, around the globe, business professionals in a number of areas are helping to make it happen.

Here, each of us is tasked with building the systems and processes that support our growing business. Each of us is responsible for taking this work forward. It makes each role empowering and exciting.

Because you'll play a part in many cross-functional teams, you'll get to know many areas of our business. You'll also develop new talents and skills as you take on expanding roles. It's an amazing place to grow.

As we continue to expand the horizons of the life sciences, we're creating even more roles for experienced professionals who can respond immediately to challenges, take on expanded roles, and help us capitalize on our rich potential.

Explore the opportunities available in Administration, including:

  • Finance
  • Investor Relations
  • IT
  • Human Resources
  • Legal
  • Administration

Philippe, Financial Controller
Philippe, Financial Controller