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Senior Software Test Engineer
Element Biosciences INC · 🇺🇸 San Diego - Headquarters
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 5 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Element Biosciences INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Technical Support Engineer II, Instrumentation” (Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers) in CA: $86k–$105k, median $95k. Most were filed at wage level I (50%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 5 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Test Engineer to help ensure the quality, reliability, and usability of software across Element’s sequencing ecosystem. In this hands-on role, you will independently own verification of complex features and workflows spanning instrument software, firmware, hardware, cloud services, and data-analysis interfaces. You will partner with cross-functional teams to translate requirements, user needs, and product risks into clear test strategies and objective evidence. The ideal candidate is passionate about building robust tools for scientists and brings a strong background in software and systems testing, integration troubleshooting, and regulated product development. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Software Test Engineering and is expected to be a San Diego based, daily on-site role. If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this role. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: • Independently design, document, and execute verification activities for complex software features and end-to-end workflows used with Element sequencing instruments • Translate user needs, product requirements, system architecture, and risk controls into traceable test strategies, plans, cases, protocols, and reports • Perform hands-on functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing across instrument software, firmware, hardware, cloud services, and data-analysis interfaces • Configure and maintain representative test environments, including control of software, firmware, hardware, and test-data configurations • Isolate and troubleshoot defects using logs, command-line tools, database queries, and reproducible test evidence; clearly communicate severity, impact, and risk • Collaborate with software, systems, hardware, assay, chemistry, product, UX, and quality partners to evaluate coverage, resolve integration issues, and improve the end-user experience • Create accurate, review-ready test documentation in accordance with Element’s software development lifecycle and applicable design-control processes • Identify high-value automation opportunities and contribute to maintainable automated tests and supporting tools as products and interfaces mature • Communicate test status, quality risks, and recommendations to project leads and stakeholders, and share technical knowledge with less-experienced team members Education and Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, bioengineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience • Typically 3–5 years of hands-on software or systems test experience; experience with life-science, medical-device, or laboratory-instrumentation products is strongly preferred • Demonstrated ability to derive test coverage from requirements and user stories and to produce clear, traceable test plans, cases, protocols, defect reports, and test reports • Experience testing interfaces among software, embedded systems, firmware, hardware, cloud services, and data-analysis applications • Proficiency with Linux and command-line tools, log analysis, and SQL or NoSQL databases; scripting or test-automation experience (for example, Python or TypeScript) is preferred • Experience working within a regulated software development l