PacBio manufactures long-read sequencing instruments and reagents for academic and clinical genomics research. The company is actively hiring across sales (8 open roles), customer support (7), and engineering (6), with accelerating velocity—a pattern consistent with scaling instrument installation and territory expansion. Active projects around chip metrology, yield improvement, and production-line support indicate the business is maturing its manufacturing operations while expanding its installed base.
Notable leadership hires: Director IT
PacBio designs and sells high-throughput DNA sequencing systems that provide long-read genomic data for research institutions, diagnostics labs, and agricultural genomics. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company operates as a public entity with 501–1,000 employees. The product portfolio centers on proprietary sequencing chemistry and optical systems paired with software and bioinformatics tools. Revenue streams come from instrument sales, consumable reagents (recurring), and service contracts. The company employs Salesforce for customer relationship management, JMP and MATLAB for instrument data analysis and statistical modeling, and Workday for HR operations.
PacBio manufactures long-read DNA sequencing systems. The company uses proprietary biochemistry, optics, and nanofabrication to enable sequencing of full-length genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic fragments with high accuracy.
PacBio's operational stack includes Salesforce (CRM), JMP and MATLAB (scientific computing), SQL, Python, and Perl (software development), pytest (testing), Workday Recruiting (talent acquisition), and Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook).
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