Senior Biochemist

Job Title: Biochemist - III (Senior)

Location: Rahway NJ 07065

100% onsite

Duration: 12 months contract (possibility of extension)

Pay Rate: $45/hr on w2 without any benefits

Job Description – Biochemistry contractor

The Protein Engineering group at *** is seeking an experienced researcher to support our biochemistry capabilities.

• The primary mission of the group is to design and engineer enzymes, therapeutic proteins/peptides to enable drug discovery and development.

• This position in our biochemistry team is responsible for manipulating DNA to produce enzymes in cell-free or E. coli expression systems, setting up reactions using the enzyme preparation as a catalyst solution, quenching reactions and prepping them for HPLC or MS analysis, and analyzing the data generated in support of our protein directed evolution workflow.

Qualifications

• Candidates for consideration should have a bachelor's degree in biological, biochemistry, engineering or chemical science with minimum 4 years of experience or MS degree with 2+ years or PhD with 0-1 year of experience in running PCR, enzyme reactions and/or analytical assays,

• The successful candidate will have hands on experience with laboratory automation techniques (especially Biomek or Tecan liquid handling systems) and/or in various analytical methods (HPLC, LC-MS, spectrophotometry, gel electrophoresis, FPLC).

• Ideally experience in analyzing biological (microbial) samples by HPLC.

• Software Skills: MS office (Word/Excel)

Required Experiences and Skills:

• High-throughput screening and automated liquid handling

• Chemical and biochemical solution and reaction preparation

• Understanding of experimental design and data analysis principles

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

• Excellent teamwork and multitasking

• Good documentation of experimental reports

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• HPLC and LC-MS experience, particularly with Agilent systems.

• Experience in protein characterization and purification.

• Experience in molecular biology and/or protein expression platforms (cell-free, microbial, yeast, bacillus, mammalian) is a plus

• Industry exp. is preferred.