Dexcom
Senior Analytical Scientist
San Diego, California · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$3,021 more — $119,621 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $119,621 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Chemists" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Chemists (19-2031) · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- The Company Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).
- Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed.
- That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges.
Responsibilities
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Meritain, an Aetna Company, creates and publishes the Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Dexcom.
Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 5-8 years related experience or Master's degree and 2-5 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 0-2 years experience
- Travel Required:
Compensation
- $116,600.00 - $194,400.00
Benefits
- A full and comprehensive benefits program.
- Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
- Experience and Education Requirements:
Company info
- You will serve as a SME in a cross-functional team driving technical solution or decision pertinent to analytical matters.
- You will act as QC testing technical lead to ensure material quality control requirements are met under Dexcom QMS systems.
- You will apply design of experiment and statistical analysis to drive the evidence-based conclusion and recommendation, author technical report and protocol, present results for stage-appropriate technical design review and decision making.
- You will work with cross-functional teams in material design, selection, and qualification, to support the design down select and continuous improvement including raw material sourcing, safety assessment, and product specification.
- You understand and apply basic laboratory safety protocols, chemical hygiene, and dispose chemical waste according to company and local EHS regulations.
- You have demonstrated hands-on expertise with GPC-MALS, DLS, FTIR, viscometry, and Instron systems, including instrument operation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and basic repair.
- You have the ability to assess instrument readiness for QC use, including qualification requirements, system suitability, and compliance with applicable regulatory and quality requirements.
- You have strong experience in protein and enzyme characterizations by utilizing plate reader, LC-MS and HPLC instruments.
- You have solid understanding of current regulatory expectations and industry practices for analytical method validation, verification, and method transfer in a regulated environment.
- You have extensive experience transferring analytical methods from R&D to QC/manufacturing laboratories, including development of transfer strategies and protocols, assessment and qualification of equivalent instrumentation, method gap/risk assessments, execution and documentation of method transfer activities, troubleshooting, and training of receiving laboratory personnel.
- You have strong knowledge of QC laboratory documentation practices, including SOPs, test methods, protocols, reports, controlled worksheets/forms, instrument records, and other documentation required to support compliant routine testing.
- You have experience with LIMS implementation or optimization within an analytical/QC laboratory to improve laboratory efficiency, sample and data traceability, documentation control, and data integrity is strongly preferred.
- A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community.
Equal opportunity
- The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
- An Equal Opportunity Employer.
- If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.
This listing is sourced directly from Dexcom's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.