Research Assistant

BioMarin is the world leader in delivering therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases. We target diseases that lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of patients, many of whom are children. These conditions are often inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating and have few, if any, treatment options. BioMarin will continue to focus on advancing therapies that are the first or best of their kind.

BioMarin’s Technical Operations group is responsible for creating our drugs for use in clinical trials and for scaling production of those drugs for the commercial market. These engineers, technicians, scientists and support staff build and maintain BioMarin’s cutting-edge manufacturing processes and sites, provide quality assurance and quality control to ensure we meet regulatory standards, and procure the needed goods and services to support manufacturing and coordinating the worldwide movement of our drugs to patients. Come join our team and make a meaningful impact on patients’ lives. 
 

SUMMARY

The Analytical Sciences department at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. is seeking a skilled Analytical Biochemist and/or Biologist at the Research Associate level to join a team focused on supporting gene therapy & enzyme replacement therapy. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, independent and critical thinker who has experience to work in a multi-disciplinary and fast-paced environment, and solid communication skills. The candidate will develop and execute a wide variety of analytical methods and assays for the characterization of therapeutic candidates in development with a particular focus on critical program needs including CMC development for INDs and BLAs. An ideal candidate will have experience in cell-based assays. The candidate will be responsible for providing support to the on-time release, stability and non-routine testing of the pharmaceutical drug substances and drug product in a cGMP environment. The candidate will provide support to activities related to sample and/or lab equipment management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Adhere and follow cGMPs guidelines and procedures. Escalate non-compliance concerns to management.

• Monitor lab equipment for calibration needs, monitoring and tracking of issues related to instrumentation

• Perform Analytical testing including: cell-based assays, cell culturing/maintenance, ELISAs, etc.

• Assist with preparation of protocols, summaries, and reports-often for direct submission to pharmaceutical regulatory agencies

• Assist in planning and execution of relevant experiments to support development and qualification of analytical assays for gene therapy agents and biologics to meet project goals and timelines

• Report progress to the manager on a weekly basis on each program

• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Required Skills:

• Basic level of lab testing and cell culture techniques

• Excellent communication, collaboration and writing skills

• Proven data analysis, interpretation and scientific communication skills

• Proven flexibility and execution skills to deliver in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment

• 0-2 years of experience Bioanalytical assays

 

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of biopharmaceutical development is a plus

Education

Bachelor’s degree in scientific discipline or equivalent.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.