Scientist

Title: Scientist - I (Assistant) - MA

Location: Boston, MA 02115

Duration: 6 Months’

Pay Rate: $28/hr

Notes:

• 6 months assignment with possibility of extension.

• 100% onsite-lab based role.

Responsibilities:

Protein Sciences - Boston of Client Research Laboratories (CRL) is seeking a contractor to execute existing laboratory automation workflows on our high-throughput antibody and protein production platforms. Specifically, to perform weekly expression runs for hundreds of antibodies to support early discovery efforts.

In this role you will build and then use a combination of protein expression, purification, and laboratory automation skills.

This role will require an eagerness to learn and an ability to work with different teams and different equipment to operate a robust high throughput protein production platform.

Your efforts will be a complement and core resource to existing capabilities and will serve to expand the team’s ability to interrogate antibody/protein diversity in order to identify optimal leads. You will have the opportunity to apply your enthusiasm and technical skills as a member of Discovery Biologics - Boston to support and help drive multidisciplinary biotherapeutic discovery programs.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain existing liquid handling platforms including Lynx, Hamilton and Tecan to drive our small-scale automated protein production platforms.

• Troubleshoot automation methods and devices to maintain optimal high throughput protein production (yield, reproducibility, reliability, etc.).

• Generate frequent production summary reports.

• Follow and improve Standard Operating Procedures for expression and purification workflows.

Qualifications:

Contractor – High-Throughput Protein Production

Required Qualifications, experience and skills:

• A minimum of a B.S degree with 1-2 years of experience in a relevant field (e.g. protein sciences, chemical or bioengineering, biochemistry or similar) with additional training being desirable.

• Experience with cell culture, aseptic techniques, and protein/antibody production workflows and their inherent data management.

• Strong problem solving and communication skills.

• Ability to multitask, time management, and prioritize activities.

Preferred/Nice to have experience and skills:

• Experience with operating TECAN and/or other liquid handling platforms.

• Experience working with transient expression systems (HEK/CHO).

• Experience with programming languages such as Python.

Key skills/must haves:

• Cell culture experience

• Aseptic techniques

• Research tech experience

• Lab experience with in academia or industry