Staff Scientist, Product Development

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Description

As a Staff Scientist in the Microbiology Department, you play a crucial role in supporting the development of AST products. Your responsibilities span both laboratory work and collaboration with software and system engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of AST assays on the Vitek Reveal platform. You contribute to building and documenting tools, ensuring precise and dependable AST assay results to guide patient therapy. Strong communication, organizational, and troubleshooting skills are essential, along with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

Duties :

• Collaborate closely with the software, system engineering, and chemistry teams, as well as other functions, to support menu products on the Vitek Reveal.
• Design and execute development and verification studies required to support AST assay development
• Analyze large performance datasets generated from AST experiments.
• Support biological testing needed for software validation and system verification activities.
• Troubleshoot technical issues specific to the AST tests / system, record and report these issues cross-functionally, and provide suggestions and resolutions for investigations.
• Prepare bacterial cultures and perform AST experiments using clinical bacterial isolates.
• Collaborate with other scientists and managers to optimize testing protocols and workflows within the lab.
• Maintain accurate records of experiments and results, write work instructions (WIs), standard operating procedures (SOPs), protocols, reports, process flows, etc.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., FDA, ISO) and comply with biohazard safety standards.
• Participate in product risk assessment, and technical design reviews and critically evaluate design and implementation plans
• Summarize findings and present results to cross-functional teams.
• Mentor and train new and existing team members
• Propose and explore novel approaches / tools to develop new methods and enhance testing accuracy and efficiency.

Qualifications :

The estimated salary range for this role based in California is between $127,400 -178,400. This role is eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and individual performance per bioMerieux’s bonus program. This range may differ from ranges offered for similar positions elsewhere in the country given differences in cost of living. Actual compensation within this range is determined based on the successful candidate’s experience and will be presented in writing at the time of the offer.In addition, bioMérieux offers a competitive Total Rewards package that may include :

Salary : $127,400 - $178,400