GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit
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GRAIL is a life sciences company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is using the power of high-intensity sequencing, population-scale clinical trials, and state-of-the-art Computer and Data Science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology and develop tests for early-stage cancer detection. We’re seeking a passionate and talented individual to join us in realizing our mission, which has the potential to dramatically reduce the global burden of cancer.
Our team is a small group of pioneering software technical writers in a highly-regulated and fast-paced environment. We are looking for a writer to help us support our compliance efforts and to provide useful documentation for our software engineers, product and project managers, and clinical professionals. In this role, you will write software development plans, architecture guides, and procedures using documentation tools to review, route, and publish content.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Create software documentation including development plans, architecture guides, user guides, Application Program Interfaces (APIs), and various procedures for software development under FDA and ISO regulations.
Collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs), support teams, and quality personnel to ensure accuracy and quality of documents. Help create and maintain software documentation best practices, standards, and templates. Participate and assist writers in collaborative content review sessions. Help manage an internal glossary, style guide, and wiki. Track your work using Jira, an issue-management tool. Use an electronic document management system to route, review, and store documentation. Develop a working knowledge of laboratory procedures, diagnostic assays, genomic sequencing, clinical trials, laboratory automation, and bioinformatics data analysis.
Qualifications
- 1-2 years experience documenting software development, preferably in a regulated industry, such as healthcare or life sciences.
- Technical writing skills with experience creating documents, such as plans, design specifications, compliance and user guides.
- Demonstrated grammar and editing skills for technical content.
- Excellent attention to detail, balanced with the ability to calibrate the level of detail to the target audience.
- Familiar with quality assurance concepts for regulated industries.
- Experience managing documentation projects independently and as part of a team
Desired Skills
- Experience working with the Microsoft 365 suite (especially Word and Excel)
- Experience working with the Google suite (Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc.)
- Experience using the Veeva document management system
GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please
contact us to request accommodation.
Following extensive monitoring, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, GRAIL US has made the decision to require that all U.S. employees be “Fully Vaccinated” with the COVID-19 vaccine. “Fully Vaccinated” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine (e.g. Pfizer or Moderna) or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine (e.g. Johnson & Johnson) has been administered. Absent a qualifying exemption, all GRAIL US employees are to comply with this requirement, including providing documentation of such vaccination status, as a condition of employment. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation for consideration by GRAIL.
