Duration & Type: 7 months Contract with a major pharmaceutical industry client

Location: Emeryville, California

Responsibilities:

• Designs and performs moderately complex experiments with minimal input from supervisor to support the project.
• Understands experimental goals within the context of the overall project.
• Independently analyzes data and summarizes experiments supporting a portion of the project.
• Where necessary, provides clear feedback to groups such as Software and Engineering on the outcome of the experiment.
• Have experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Feasibility-e.g. Contribution to one or more of the following:
  • The design of oligo systems, sample processing or assay formulation experiments.
  • Perform experiments to support feasibility of software such as results processing, change to the instrument or new instrumentation.
• Assay Integration – Executing experiments in one or more of the following areas:
  • Support of the ADM, sequence file results processing or other software modules required to run the assay on the instrument.
  • Experiments to test assay performance at the extreme operating parameters of the instrument.
  • Experiments to transfer successfully an assay fully developed on one platform to another.
  • Experiments to improve assay or instrument robustness and ultimately performance.
• Formulation Optimization – Designing and executing studies to support the optimum assay performance based on formulation.
  • Contribute to writing transfer reviews and specification setting
• V&V – Designing and executing studies based on the V and V plan using the final version of the assay on a given platform.
  • Generate documentation from these experiments to support regulatory submissions and or Marketing and Sales documents.
• Product Development.
  • Executing studies to support finalization of the product design, scale up for Manufacturing, finalization of software and hardware and planning for clinical studies.
  • Examples of this include: setting specifics, Quality Reviews and supplying supporting documentation, Supporting RUO studies, contributing to writing software documents SRS, supporting hardware and software changes, and testing Development Lots.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively with peers and supervisors.

Required:

• Education: B.A. /B.S. Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry or related field.
• 3-5 years post-baccalaureate laboratory experience. Industrial experience preferred.
• 2-4 years post-M.S. without thesis experience. Industrial experience preferred.
• 2 years laboratory experience post-M.S. with thesis. Industrial experience preferred.
• Demonstrate drive and commitment: shows reliability and commitment among managers and peers.
• Work efficiently and effectively: effectively manages time and priorities by focusing on highest priority tasks and working efficiently
• Team membership: interacts in an team environment based on shared values
• Adapt and learn: works efficiently in situations involving ambiguity, shifting priorities and rapid change

For consideration, please send resume to career@infoquestgroup.com