Position Summary
The Service AI Transformation Team turns existing document data into AI‑powered services and integrations that streamline workflows across Natera’s clinical, commercial, and operational domains. As a Software Engineer III, you will implement features across the stack in a small, highly autonomous squad, applying modern serverless patterns, event streaming, and generative‑AI techniques to deliver reliable, scalable capabilities.
Responsibilities
Core Engineering
- Implement event‑driven transformation workflows and service integrations with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, S3, EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and Fargate, delivered through Infrastructure‑as‑Code (CDK or Terraform).
- Leverage cloud‑based foundation‑model APIs: Build AI transformation pipelines that orchestrate prompts, generate embeddings, and implement Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns.
- Develop internal tooling and dashboards with React/Next.js backed by GraphQL APIs.
- Integrate with Kafka streams to exchange messages with domain microservices.
Quality & Reliability
- Contribute to AI‑focused testing—prompt regression suites, hallucination detection, evaluation harnesses—alongside unit, integration, and load tests.
- Instrument services with CloudWatch and Datadog and participate in CI/CD pipelines to ensure robust observability and dependable releases.
Collaboration & Growth
- Work closely with senior engineers and Product to break down requirements into well‑scoped technical tasks.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing to continually improve team velocity and quality.
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production cloud services.
- Solid experience with AWS serverless architectures and event‑streaming patterns (Kafka).
- Proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript, React/Next.js, and GraphQL.
- Hands‑on experience with AI Orchestration, guardrails, data validation and quality , prompt engineering, and RAG patterns.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (CDK/Terraform).
Preferred / Bonus
- Experience in healthcare, genomics, or other regulated domains.
- Exposure to vector search and semantic similarity techniques.
- Understanding of data privacy and compliance standards such as HIPAA.
Ready to unlock new AI‑powered workflows that transform how Natera operates? Join the Service AI Transformation Team and make an impact.
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OUR OPPORTUNITY
Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.
The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.
WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!
For more information, visit www.natera.com.
Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.
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