Senior Scientist – Assay Development (Medical Diagnostics)
- Employer
- Grimaldi Recruitment Services
- Location
- 94025, Menlo Park
- Start date
- Mar 29, 2019
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- Discipline
- Science/R&D, Biomedical Sciences
- Required Education
- Bachelors Degree
- Position Type
- Full time
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Summary
The candidate will join the Assay Development group in the R&D division where focus is on molecular assays development such as nucleic acid isolation, purification, amplification and labeling technologies. We are seeking talented, motivated individuals to join a collaborative effort to enable development of rapid diagnostic tests of several pathogens from various clinical specimens.
Position Responsibilities
- Design and optimize chemistry and biological assays related to nucleic acid technologies targeting infectious agents in bodily fluids, and transferrable to microfluidic devices.
- Plan, carry out experiments, report data and work with others to achieve timely execution of projects
- Responsible to carry out and participate in assay feasibility, development work, integration on devices and methods’ transfer to other teams as needed.
- Trouble-shoot problems and identify solutions for technical challenges
- Document experiments, prepare data and content. Will create and present data within the Company and may also prepare and deliver other presentations including white papers or other Company materials.
- Maintain excellent levels of housekeeping, safety and environmental standards within the laboratory.
- Other duties as required.
Qualifications (Education and Experience):
- Ph.D. in Microbiology (preferred), Cellular or Molecular Microbiology or related fields with 5+years’ related experience (academia and/or industrial).
- Expertise in nucleic acid extraction and clean-up methods from challenging samples.
- Expertise in assay design, formulation optimization, and trouble-shooting for nucleic acid amplification (qPCR, isothermal amplification).
- Hands-on experience with qPCR is required, with digital PCR desired.
- Strong background in microbiology and/or host-pathogen interaction highly desirable.
- Experience integrating assays on devices
- Experience in development of clinical diagnostic assays for infectious disease.
- Strong background in bioinformatics tools used for sequence analysis and primer design.
- Strong background in data analysis and statistics is a must, familiarity with DOE software a plus.
- The candidate needs to be creative, self-motivated, an out-of-the-box thinker and be able to take initiative.
- Good communication skills and ability to participate on interdisciplinary product teams a must.
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