Scientist – II

Job Description

Education:

• Bachelors degree + 4 years of experience or a masters degree + 1-2 years experience in Science, Engineering, or related field required.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Comfortable in a lab environment.
• Experience working with DNA and RNA for genomics analysis.
• Experience performing PCR/qPCR reactions.
• Experience with automation is a plus.
• Wet chemistry laboratory skills (pipetting, buffer preparation, filtration, dilution, stoichiometry).
• Experience in sterile cell culture is a plus.
• Proficiency with technical writing and laboratory records (laboratory notebooks, chemical inventory, data management).
• Excellent collaborative and team-working skills – this role will feature opportunities to interface with many vaccine programs and groups.
• Strong technical problem-solving abilities, data interpretation and presentation competence.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience working with analytical instrumentation (plate readers, thermocyclers, High-throughput microscopy, flow cytometry).
• Experience with laboratory operations.
• Experience working in an industry environment.
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues (experimental, equipment-related issues).
• Experience in method development and method transfer.
• Computational analysis in R or Python.