Scientist - I /Protein Production

Job ID: 24-04833
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

Notes:
• 6 months assignment with possibility of extension.
• 100% onsite-lab based role.

Responsibilities:
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.