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CZI Software Engineer Accelerates Science With Open Source Tools For Imaging

Nathan Clack, a software engineer builds tools to make visualizing and analyzing complex imaging data easier.

CZI Software Engineer Accelerates Science With Open Source Tools For Imaging

A CZ Science Team Member Shares Her Hopes for the Future

Sandra Moreno, an executive assistant for CZI’s science program, puts her family values to work in her role. | Photo and artwork courtesy of Sandra Moreno

A CZ Science Team Member Shares Her Hopes for the Future

How a CZI Infrastructure Engineer Is Coding For a Better Future

CZI engineer Allison Doami talks about building an open source Terraform provider to connect with the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform.

How a CZI Infrastructure Engineer Is Coding For a Better Future

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Why CZI?

Choosing the right workplace is much more than just finding a job — it’s about joining a company that invests in you. We are committed to an employee-focused culture and fostering an environment where people are valued, supported, and empowered to thrive. Pair that with comprehensive benefits that support your well-being inside and outside of work, and you’ll find a workplace that truly prioritizes its people — helping you grow both personally and professionally.

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Our Culture

Our culture begins with our employees, and we’re committed to making sure that every person feels like they belong and are valued. Our employees shape our culture by leading programming that allows us to have fun outside of our day-to-day roles, including team-wide and org-wide happy hours, lunch and learns, volunteer opportunities, and offsites. Lived experiences, work experiences, and recreation, are all essential when it comes to building out and supporting the teams throughout our organization.

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Better Together

We value collaboration and see it as the tool to do our work. We believe the most effective collaboration happens when people are together in person. This requires strengthening in-person connections and cultivating a team-oriented environment. Our vision is that our Redwood City offices are a place where you can come to hear innovative ideas, meet great people, and walk across the hall to chat with someone from a different discipline who can add to your work.

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Employee Resource Groups

We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities. This includes building a workforce that reflects a broad range of experiences, thoughts, and opinions, creating a thriving organizational culture, driving effectiveness in our work by rewarding individual initiative and performance, and fostering a vibrant environment for personal and professional growth. We want everyone to feel they belong at CZI. We offer employee resource groups that are open to all employees and help advance learning and celebrate culture within our networks at CZI and beyond.

ARC

Asian Resources & Community

ARC celebrates and builds opportunities for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and their allies through community-building, professional development, and advocacy.

B.L.K.

Black Community

B.L.K. (building leadership and knowledge) promotes professional development and mentorship for Black employees and their allies, creates opportunity for all employees to discuss topics affecting the Black community, and helps employees connect.

D.I.G.

Disability Inclusion Group

The Disability Inclusion Group (DIG) is a community of people with disabilities and allies working to make internal and external CZI communities more accessible, equitable, and inclusive.

PRICZM

LGBTQIA+ Community

PRICZM’s mission is to build community among CZI’s LGBTQIA+ staff and allies, raise awareness of LGBTQIA+ culture and issues, and serve the broader LGBTQIA+ community beyond CZI.

SAFFRON

MENA/SWANA Community

Saffron celebrates the rich cultures and roots of employees who identify as MENA (Middle East and North Africa), SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa), South Asian, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Arab and their allies by offering a cadence of cultural and social events and connection opportunities.

Sprouts

Early-Career Team Members

Sprouts connects early-career CZIers to foster a social and supportive community. The group collaborates with university recruiting and accelerates professional development.

Unidos

Latina/o/x Community

Unidos creates an inclusive community for our Latina/o/x employees and their allies by providing professional development opportunities and fostering a sense of belonging and community for employees.

W.I.N.

Women’s Impact Network

WIN is a community of women and their allies dedicated to learning, growth and support. The group educates, inspires, and champions the women of CZI — and women everywhere.

W.I.T.

Women in Tech

WIT is an inclusive group of women in STEM related fields and their allies committed to fostering a community of support while navigating careers in tech.

Our Values

1. Stay close to the work

Whether in education, science, or our local communities — we know the people most affected by the issues should help drive the solutions. Our teams work closely with educators and parents, scientists and community leaders to ensure the voices of people most impacted are heard every step of the way.

2. Build for the long term

Though near-term wins are critical, it will take a new level of commitment and dedication to make lasting, long-term change. We take the long view and know that breakthroughs can often take decades.

3. Learn fast

Though we focus on building for the long-term, we also move quickly. We put in the work because we understand the urgency of the challenges our partners take on. We experiment, iterate, reflect — and then try again if need be.

4. Be daring and humble

We have big ideas about the future we’re working toward, but they can only be realized by placing the perspectives and experiences of the communities we serve first. Our aim is to help accelerate their work and develop new technologies and tools that will help them reach their goals even faster.

5. Collaboration is the tool

Good things happen when people from different backgrounds work together. We bring together experts, advocates, engineers, and change-makers to collaborate and make sure ideas don’t stay siloed.

Benefits for the Whole You

We’re thankful to have an incredible team behind our work. To honor their commitment, we offer a wide range of benefits to support the people who make possible all that we do. We want every employee to feel supported as a “whole person” by CZI, so they can: take care of themselves and their loved ones, live a life of service and grow their career.

Rejuvenate

Live The Mission

Explore Giving Stories

Alumni Network

Feed Your Brain

Get Financially Fit

Be Well

Rejuvenate

Generous Time Off

• Paid holidays • Paid vacation time off • Paid sick time off • Paid volunteer time off • Paid jury duty time off • Paid parental leave • Paid pregnancy disability leave • Paid family care leave • Paid medical leave

Ease Back from Parental Leave

Our parental leave allows new parents returning to work the option of working part-time for up to four weeks after their initial return to work.

Live The Mission

Matching Gift Program

CZI matches qualified donations to 501(c)(3) organizations by employees 2:1 up to an annual maximum amount.

Life of Service Gifts

CZI Life of Service Gifts are awarded to employees to 'live the mission' and support the causes closest to them. These gifts are awarded following key anniversaries. Employees may direct the gift to the 501(c)(3) of their choice in their name.

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Volunteer Time Off

Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.

Alumni Network

Feed Your Brain

Building Leaders at CZI

Through cohort-based learning, discussion groups, and more, the Building Leaders program enhances leadership skills to empower employees to do their best work and deliver on our mission.

Professional Development Program

To support employees in growing their skills, knowledge, and abilities, CZI provides a professional development allowance to reimburse employees for eligible development expenses.

On-demand Learning

CZI provides unlimited access to on-demand learning designed to help employees gain new skills and advance their careers.

Get Financially Fit

401(k) Retirement Plan

CZI provides a generous match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.

Commuter Benefits

Pre-tax transit and parking benefits, annual Caltrain passes subsidized for employees who take Caltrain to work once or more per week and free onsite parking at our buildings.

Whole You Fund

Annual benefit for employees that can be used in the most meaningful way for them and their family such as housing, student loan repayment, childcare, commuter costs, or other life needs.

Child, Adult, and Elder Care Support
(Bright Horizons)

Access to emergency back-up child care and adult and elder care. Additional benefits include preferred enrollment at select centers and resources to find sitters and pet care.

Be Well

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

CZI provides 100% of the premium cost for employees and 75% of the premium cost for dependent coverage for medical, dental and vision coverage.

Fitness Reimbursement Program

CZI offers a monthly reimbursement for employees' physical fitness costs (i.e. gym memberships, and fitness classes).

Mental Wellness Benefits

Coaching and therapy care options for employees and dependents include stress management, financial wellness, relationships, parenting transitions, career advice, inclusion and belonging, and other life challenges.

Flexible Spending Accounts

Healthcare FSA and Dependent Care FSA available. Flexible spending accounts provide pre-tax savings on eligible expenses on healthcare and dependent care for employees and their families.

Short and Long-term Disability Plans

Disability benefits protect employees and their families by providing a portion of their income during times when they are unable to work.

Life and AD&D Insurance

Life insurance designed to protect employees and their families against loss of income due to accidental death.

Paid Bereavement Time Off

Bereavement benefits are provided to attend a funeral and grieve for a family member or loved one.

Family Forming Benefits

We help fund select infertility, surrogacy and adoption services.

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