Associate Scientist, R&D

1 week ago

Woburn, United States Covaris Full time

Covaris, LLC. (www.covaris.com) is an established biotech company headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. Covaris has developed the Adaptive Focused Acoustics™ (AFA) technology platform, which enables pre-analytical sample preparation, enabling the extraction, purification, and collection of nucleic acids, proteins, and metabolites from a wide variety of samples. Covaris AFA technology is the gold standard for DNA fragmenting for Next-Generation Sequencing. Covaris products have unique and competitive advantages for Genomics, Proteomics, and Epigenomics research scientists.


Summary:

The open position presents an exciting opportunity for an Associate Scientist with life sciences education and experience to make substantial contributions to Research and Development projects in a rapidly growing leading biotech company. The successful candidate will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that integrates expertise and experience of biologists, chemists, physicists and mechanical and electrical engineers. The candidate will support research and development of next generation consumable and instrumentation systems. This position reports to the Senior Director of R&D.


Essential Responsibilities and Position-related Expectations: The employee may be required to perform all, or a combination of the following essential responsibilities as determined by business necessity.

  • Planning, execution and analysis of experiments to prove feasibility of new ideas and concepts.
  • Generation of highly reproducible data, data analysis and presentation of results and conclusions.
  • Participation in prototype testing and assistance in product development and commercialization efforts.
  • Migration of manually performed workflows to semi- and fully automated processes including the Company’s Adaptive focused-acoustics (AFA™) instrumentation.
  • Ability to understand and to follow Standard Operating Procedures to support day-to-day activities such as QC tests of instrumentation and reagents.
  • Examples of day-to-day tasks include but are not limited to:
  • Sample prep for the extraction of biomolecules such as nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and protein, downstream processing and analysis, using Covaris’ proprietary AFA™ technology.
  • Analysis of nucleic acids, such as quantification using various methods, including absorption, fluorescent quantification, qPCR and digital PCR mediated assessment of quantities and quality, electrophoretic molecular weight analysis, NGS library construction.
  • Analysis of proteins, including trypsin digests, ELISA assays and fluorescent quantification.
  • Microbial and eukaryotic cell culture to develop novel sample prep workflows for manual as well as automated workflows.
  • Handling and processing of clinical specimens, such as whole blood, plasma, FFPE and fresh/frozen tissue, microbial cultures


As a Successful Candidate, You Will:

  • Be a self-starter and need minimal daily supervision.
  • Be able to work towards given goals and deadlines.
  • Have excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Demonstrate solid analysis skills including Excel spreadsheet based analysis and documentation, basic statistical knowledge.
  • Have experience in basic molecular biology techniques (PCR, electrophoresis, nucleic acid or protein isolation and purification). NGS experience is a plus.
  • Be knowledgeable about sterile cell cultures techniques.
  • Possess a strong team spirit and willingness to work in an inter disciplinary group of scientists and engineers.


Non-Essential Responsibilities: In addition to the essential responsibilities listed above, the employee may be required to perform other non-essential functions. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.


Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree with 2+ years of experience in biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, or a related life science field.
  • Experience in industrial settings and/or basic knowledge of document-controlled development processes is a plus.


Reasonable Accommodation: Covaris is committed to the spirit and the letter of the Americans with Disabilities Act. All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate otherwise qualified individuals.


Category: Exempt

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