Senior Scientist

6 days ago

Sunnyvale, California, United States NovoNutrients Full time
Job Description

NovoNutrients is a pioneering company in the field of industrial biotech, transforming waste industrial CO2 into feed and food system ingredients through biological innovation. We are advancing a circular economy for feed, food, and water by minimizing waste and using reclaimed emissions from biogenic and industrial sources as a feedstock.

We are seeking a seasoned fermentation leader to join our expanding team in Sunnyvale, CA. The Director of Fermentation will lead the development of a cost-effective and robust fermentation process involving optimization and scale-up for an expanding portfolio of products, while also building and leading a diverse team of scientists and engineers.

 

This is a unique opportunity to join a small and growing team as we work to address environmental challenges for a more sustainable future. If you are fueled by a desire to create meaningful positive impact, enjoy working on technically challenging problems, and thrive in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative team-based environment, come join us

 

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Providing strategic and operational leadership for fermentation activities. Leading the design, implementation, and analysis of fermentation process development activities for a suite of products across a variety of scales, ranging from bench scale to commercial scale.

  • Hiring, inspiring, and leading a group of fermentation scientists and engineers, including 24/7 fermentation operations

  • Continuously identifying and implementing cutting-edge technologies to drive cost-effective innovation

  • Developing and implementing new scale-down methods in the fermentation process to enable cost-effective and predictive process scale-up. Applying DOE-based approaches where necessary.

  • Leading the development of gas mass transfer and kinetic modeling, combined with stoichiometry, to predict and optimize fermentation process across scales

  • Designing small-scale fermentation models to enable rapid strain characterization at medium to high throughput experimentation

  • Working with relevant stakeholders to identify fermentation process requirements that enable effective downstream processing for product separation and purification

  • Analyzing data, documenting results, developing SOPs, and writing reports. Communicating and presenting scientific and technical information within an area of expertise to a cross-functional audience.

  • Leading internal and external technology transfer projects

  • Developing and fostering collaborative and inclusive relationships with both internal partners and external stakeholders on process development and scale-up

  • Ensuring all operations are designed and performed with a safety-first philosophy

Desired skills and experience:

  • Doctor of Philosophy with at least 10 years of relevant industrial fermentation experience, or Master of Science with at least 12 years of relevant industrial fermentation experience, or Bachelor of Science with at least 15 years of relevant industrial fermentation experience

  • Proven successful track record in developing novel fermentation processes and scale-up and scale-down to/from lab/pilot/demo/commercial scale

  • Experience in leading teams of scientists and research associates in a time-bound and milestone-driven environment

  • Experience running fermenters, including setup, sampling, process development (including downstream processing), and troubleshooting hardware and software

  • Expertise in mass transfer and kinetic modeling

  • Prior experience with gas fermentation and chemoautotrophy is preferred, but not required

  • Experience using statistics and design-of-experiments-based approaches to strengthen experimental design and enable robust data analysis

  • Excellent leadership, organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a strong execution focus

  • Ability to collaborate in a core value-driven team culture

 

Our facilities are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Sunnyvale, CA.

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required for this position. NovoNutrients is not able to sponsor individuals for employment visas for this position at this time.

By taking NovoNutrients gas fermentation processes from floor-scale to near-term pilot to eventual commercial scales, we are creating low-carbon feed and food sources for the planet. We use bacteria that can capture CO2 using hydrogen energy, to produce food and feed products. NovoNutrients operates one of the world's leading and largest hydrogen-based biosynthesis laboratories, with bioreactors from 250ml to 55L. We have successfully developed and scaled non-GMO single cell protein and created GMO bacterial expression products. The company has developed core IP and is preparing to deploy pilot scale systems in the near term.

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