💻 Cepheid Hiring Challenge 2026 💻

📋 Challenge Overview

🎯 About the Challenge

Cepheid is passionate about improving healthcare through faster, more accurate diagnostic tests. With our GeneXpert® System, we've taken the most sophisticated molecular technology and packaged it into an automated, easy-to-use format that has quickly become the platform of choice worldwide.

From the largest laboratories to small physician offices, our game-changing solution delivers critical answers when clinicians and patients need them most.

Through strong molecular biology capabilities and ongoing product innovation, we are focused on developing tests for healthcare-associated infections, sexual health, critical infectious disease, virology, and oncology applications.

✅ Eligibility Criteria

• Years of Experience: 0 - 15 years
• Required Skills: Java & Angular

📝 Challenge Format

• 1 programming question restricted to the Java language
• 1 basic programming question restricted to the JavaScript language

💡 Desired Skills

• Critical thinking with good problem-solving skills
• Junior and senior developers with strong experience with Java, Spring, Angular 2.0
• Software architects good with building quality software designs and design thinking
• Make a difference in healthcare and join us on this mission!

🏢 About Cepheid

Over a decade ago, Cepheid set the standard for innovation in automated molecular diagnostics with our first system and we've never looked back. And now, even with the largest installed base of any molecular platform, Cepheid is constantly innovating and evolving our capabilities.

Our technology has been heralded as game-changing by healthcare leaders worldwide. We envision a better way for clinical institutions of any size, from small medical clinics to high-volume reference laboratories and major hospitals, to access the power of molecular diagnostics.

Our GeneXpert® System delivers fast, scalable, and accurate diagnostic results while our expanding Xpert® test menu spans multiple clinical applications such as:

• Healthcare-associated infections
• Sexual health
• Critical infectious disease
• Virology and oncology
• Respiratory infections and blood virology
• Tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases
• Human genetics

🏭 Danaher India Development Center (IDC)

IDC is a research and development center with the vision of accelerating product roadmaps across various Danaher business segments. Started in 2014, the center now hosts 500+ associates, for multiple Danaher operating companies focusing on Diagnostics and Life Science segments.

The IDC workforce comprises various product engineering teams, working on the development of software and hardware components of cutting-edge products for:

• Immunoassay, Chemistry, Hematology
• Molecular Diagnostics
• Oncology and Neurosurgery

IDC has evolved as a center of excellence for Cloud and data analytics, with significant contributions to key informatics solutions. Located at the center of Bangalore IT HUB, IDC is housed at a state-of-the-art facility, measuring 120K Sqft.

🚀 How to Participate

1. Register for the challenge on HackerEarth
2. Visit the challenge page on start date/time (Jan 30, 2026, 06:00 PM IST)
3. Click "Participate in Challenge"
4. Solve the programming questions (2 hours 15 minutes)
5. Submit your solutions before time runs out

🔥 Ready to Take the Challenge?

Challenge closes on February 08, 2026. Don't miss this opportunity!