Research Investigator, Protein Engineering
- Employer
- Bristol Myers Squibb Company
- Location
- Redwood City, CA, United States
- Start date
- Aug 9, 2019
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- Discipline
- Regulatory, Research/Documentation, Science/R&D
- Required Education
- Doctorate/PHD/MD
- Position Type
- Full time
- Hotbed
- Biotech Bay, Best Places to Work
Job Details
Join us and make a difference. We hire the best people and provide them with a work environment that places a premium on diversity, integrity, collaboration and personal development. Through a culture of inclusion, we create a better, more productive work environment. We believe that the diverse experiences and perspectives of all our employees help to drive innovation and transformative business results.
We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Protein/Antibody engineer to join the Protein Engineering Group. The candidate will be expected to work on a variety of protein engineering projects to optimize and generate differentiated antibody therapeutic leads.
Specific Responsibilities
- Lead protein engineering efforts to engineer antibodies and antibody fusion proteins with novel properties
- Optimize variable and constant domains of antibodies to generate therapeutic leads.
- Elucidate mechanistic understanding of targets and work to progress targets through pipeline
- Independently perform complex experiments with strong attention to detail and documentation.
- Excellent written and oral skills are necessary.
- Accomplish goals under project team time lines.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Antibody engineering, chemical engineering, structural biology, or similar fields with 2-5 years post Ph.D. experience.
- Knowledgeable in engineering novel functionalities into antibodies (such as cytokines, modulating FcgRs, or FcRn interactions)
- Understanding of structure-function of proteins
- Experience and knowledge of molecular biology, protein expression, purification, and characterization required.
- Experience in utilizing various display technologies is a plus (yeast, phage, mammalian systems)
- Immunology/Oncology experience including in-vitro cell-based assays is desirable
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multidisciplinary biologics discovery team.
Bristol-Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.
Company
Bristol Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases.
At Bristol Myers Squibb, we believe in the power of science to address some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our focus on these unmet needs comes during a remarkable time, when unprecedented scientific breakthroughs are advancing the treatment of disease as never before in human history.
We work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. Each day, our employees around the world work together for patients – they are at the center of everything we do. They inspire us. They are the reason we come to work each day.
We combine the agility of a biotech with the reach and resources of an established pharmaceutical company to create a global leading biopharma company powered by talented individuals who drive scientific innovation.
- Website
- http://www.bms.com/
- Phone
- +1-800-332-2056
- Location
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430 E. 29th St
14th Floor
New York
New York
10016
United States
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