Dexcom
Sr Staff QA Engineer
San Diego, California · Staff+
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$12,507 more — $141,107 — 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 $141,107 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 "Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) · 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.
Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 13+ years related experience or a Master's degree and 8+ years equivalent industry experience of a PhD and 5+ years of experience.
- Travel Required:
Compensation
- $128,600.00 - $214,400.00
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:
- Flex Workplace: Your primary location will be a home office.
Company info
- You will serve as the Design Quality Engineering subject matter expert for material characterization, formulation science, and material-related risk management activities across advanced technology, new product development, and lifecycle management programs.
- You will lead quality oversight of characterization and qualification strategies for raw materials, intermediates, formulations, and finished materials, with a focus on polymers, enzymes, reagents, adhesives, coatings, membranes, and other critical material systems.
- You will establish clear traceability between material attributes, formulation characteristics, manufacturing processes, design inputs, and finished device safety, performance, and user needs.
- You will partner closely with R&D, Materials Science, Analytical Chemistry, Process Development, Manufacturing, and Regulatory Affairs teams to ensure material and formulation decisions are supported by robust scientific evidence and quality engineering principles.
- You will drive risk-based decision making through application of ISO 14971 risk management, ensuring material-related hazards, failure modes, and variability are appropriately identified, evaluated, controlled, and verified.
- You will provide Design Quality leadership for characterization studies, analytical method assessments, stability programs, material compatibility evaluations, and verification activities that demonstrate product safety and essential performance.
- You will represent Design Quality during design reviews, audits, inspections, and regulatory submissions, clearly communicating the linkage between material characterization, risk controls, and finished device performance.
- You have deep technical expertise in material characterization, analytical chemistry, formulation development, or material science within the medical device, IVD, biotechnology, combination product, or pharmaceutical industries.
- You have demonstrated experience characterizing and qualifying complex material systems, including polymers, enzymes, biological reagents, sensor chemistries, adhesives, coatings, or other critical materials used in regulated products.
- You have a strong understanding of how raw material, intermediate, and formulation characteristics influence finished device safety, effectiveness, reliability, and essential performance.
- You have proven experience applying ISO 14971 risk management principles to establish and maintain traceability between material attributes, critical quality attributes, and product-level risks.
- You have experience supporting Design Controls, verification and validation activities, design transfer, and regulatory submissions in a regulated environment.
- You are skilled in reviewing and interpreting analytical, chemical, physical, biological, and statistical data to make sound, risk-based quality decisions.
- You demonstrate excellent cross-functional collaboration, communication, and influencing skills and are effective working in highly technical, multidisciplinary teams.
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.
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