The position is largely focused upon leveraging the individual's scientific strength, hands-on expertise and experience. The position may also involve mentoring junior staff.
Responsibilities
- Support the antibody discovery group
- Design and execute antibody discovery campaigns including phage display and yeast display methods
- Design and generate libraries for antibody engineering projects ranging from affinity maturation and humanization to bispecific antibodies
- Apply deep sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics for antibody engineering
- Initiate and support platform improvements
- Record experiments and results, including analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data to the rest of the company
- Work collaboratively on timeline-driven projects
Requirements
- Master's degree with 4+ years of relevant hands-on experience (preferably in the industry) in biochemistry, protein engineering, molecular biology, or related field
- Must have experience in antibody phage display
- Experience in yeast display is preferred
- Must have strong expertise in a wide range of molecular biology techniques including mutagenesis, molecular cloning, construct design, and sequence analysis
- Experience in protein engineering techniques, including protein expression and purification, protein interaction characterization is preferred
- Experience in NGS is preferred
- Detail-oriented, strong skills in organization, time management, communication and teamwork are essential
- The candidate is expected to contribute at the bench as well as at strategic levels, and present data to project teams
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.