What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Research Associate position at Twist Bioscience?
The Research Associate will interface between R&D and Operations to establish new processes at scale for DNA-based products in manufacturing. You will develop and support the production team’s custom DNA-based applications and assays for synthetic biology including high-throughput probe generation through robust experimental design. The ideal candidate will be driven and will do what it takes to keep manufacturing on track and constantly improving in a fast paced startup environment.
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What You’ll Be Doing
- Assist Development Scientists in developing non-standard Operations workflows and QC assays using scalable manual and semi-automated processes.
- Prepare work instructions, batch records, QC reports and Collateral documents for Operations.
- Investigate, create and develop new methods and technologies for oligo and probe construction and analysis.
- Independently plan, execute and document experiments
- Make detailed observations and interpret results and generate hypotheses from workflow processes.
- Collaborate with Automation Engineers on the implementation of new processes into production.
- Work with Database Engineers on QA systems to optimize and test LIMS systems in development.
- Apply Twist’s core technologies to develop and refine commercial kits, kit components, and / or custom products, including formulation and protocols.
- Work with R&D Scientists and Bio-informaticians to design and perform experiments, collect data, and analyze results.
- Support day-to-day operations, service, and troubleshooting for manufacturing.
- Capture intermediates that fail pipeline processing, complete orders using established SOPs, troubleshoot failures, and determine new paths forward when the established pipeline methods fail.
- Fulfill orders for custom products that deviate from standard Operations workflows
- Follow regulatory and ISO 13485 requirements
What You’ll Bring to the Team
Preferred Qualifications
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