What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scientist II, Molecular Biology position at Thermo Fisher Scientific?
Job Description
Do you have a passion for developing groundbreaking diagnostic assays for Oncology? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help address some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement evaluate cases through forensics. We empower our colleagues to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D team the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond!
Location/Division Specific Information
Work Location: Austin, TX
What will you do?
- Will apply technical knowledge to isolate RNA/DNA from biological samples, make NGS libraries and sequencing.
- Will make contrived sample blends for NGS testing
- Will conduct experiments and/or evaluation of specific products
- Will work closely with the R&D organization as a team member to meet pre-defined goals
- Modify experimental procedures to suit the particular needs of experiments
- Troubleshooting – be able to develop a hypothesis and then craft the vital set of experiments to test the hypothesis with limited mentorship
- Analyze the data derived and explain the outcome of their experiments
- Has general textbook knowledge
- Maintain accurate and detailed lab notebooks and appropriate documentation based on the scientific method enabling other scientists to reproduce their experiments
- May assist in preparing material for manuals, articles for the newsletter, patents or scientific publications
- Prepares regular reports detailing experiments
- Presents research data and conclusions in 10-30 minute sessions
- Ability to read a scientific paper, reproduce the experiments described and understand the conclusions
- Able to exercise independent judgment within generally defined procedures, laboratory methods and techniques
- Able to recognize need for deviation from set procedures
How will you get here?
Education
- Bachelors degree or Master’s degree in Biological Science, chemistry, biochemistry, biomedical engineering or related field.
Experience
- At least 3-5 years laboratory experience in either academic or industry setting. Industrial experience in product development environment a plus. Regulatory (IVD) background experiences a plus.
- Strong laboratory and technical hands-on skills required:
- Pipette and perform procedures reproducibly
- Perform a dilution series to create a standard curve
- Perform lab calculations needed to make solutions from powder or from stock solutions and able to make the buffers from recipes
- Operate most basic lab equipment such as computers, centrifuges, UV light box and camera, quantitation instruments, Agilent Bioanalyzer, PCR and qPCR instruments, plate reader
- Routine experience with most common molecular procedures such as nucleic acid isolation, PCR, RT-PCR
- Level of comfort with complex biological instrumentation such as microtomes and homogenizers
- Familiarity with next-generation technologies such as library prep, sequencing, digital PCR
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to work well in a team setting
- Strong multi-tasking skills
- Experience with showing initiative by taking on new tasks, beyond what is generally expected
- Ability to inspire and coordinate people to achieve specific goals
- Ability to generate ideas to improve current processes
- Sets an example by demonstrating excellence
- Demonstrates leadership qualities
- Help coordinates tasks within the team
This position has/has not been approved for relocation assistance.
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