Job description
Position Title: Scientist
Overview: The Scientist executes most of the R&D protocol activity which is vital to the success of the company. This position handles sensitive data and comes with a high degree of trust.
Responsibilities and Duties
1. Projects: Conceptualize projects or partial projects intended as a series of experiments and activities that contribute to the creation of a technology and/or an implementation.
2. Experimental: Conceptualize and execute experiments, identifying resources needed.
3. Design and Analysis: Carry out design and data analysis using specific tools and software as needed, being able to summarize the different variables included. Must be able to generate part of original design and data analysis pipeline from scratch for novel projects.
4. Data Interpretation: Identify the information content of an experiment, identify which questions the data answers, identify which questions were not answered, formulating hypothesis identifying action items. Summarize and present data for preparation of paper and patent.
5. Leadership: Able to teach technicians and peers the meaning and needs for any given experiment. Supervise no less than one (1) technician maintaining productivity and ensuring the execution of tasks in a timely manner by the working unit as a whole.
6. Presentations: Carry out the effective presentation of the results collected for internal and external parties. Carry out the clean and reasonable presentation of the results for paper and patent writing.
7. Independence: Able to carry out the functions above, spending no more than 5% of time necessary with peers and supervisor to carry out said functions.
8. Communication: Able to maintain communication with external parties, embodying the competence and integrity of NuProbe’s R&D community.
9. Competencies: a. Advanced understanding of molecular biology techniques, including but not limited to NGS and PCR b. Advanced understanding of at least two (2) of the following, ranked by importance: i. Nucleic Acid kinetics and thermodynamic (e.g., hybridization thermodynamic) ii. Bioinformatics (e.g., reading and writing scripts to carry out data analysis using no-stock software) iii. Statistics iv. Molecular diagnostic/applied genetic (e.g., the clinical significance of mutations, the biology of mutations) v. Knowledge of patent research c. Basic to advanced understanding of at least two (2) of the disciplines: i. Logistics in paper writing ii. Logistics in patent writing iii. Manufacturing, production and FDA regulations iv. Cutting edge new technologies, depending on project requirements
Education/Experience
Required For external candidates: PhD degree in molecular biology or related fields At least six (6) years of experience in academic research or at least 3 years of experience in industrial research at similar or higher position At least three (3) years peer review publication
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus pay
COVID-19 considerations:
This company follows the guidelines of CDC as it pertains to COVID-19. All employees must wear a mask covering the nose and mouth while on the premises.
Education:
- Doctorate (Preferred)
Experience:
- academic research in Molecular biology: 6 years (Preferred)
Work Location: One location
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