(Full Time) Senior Scientist - NGS Assay Development at BillionToOne (United States)
Senior Scientist - NGS Assay Development
BillionToOne United States
Date Posted: 25 Jun, 2022
Work Location: Menlo Park, CA, United States
Salary Offered: Not Specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: No experience required
Remote Work: No
Stock Options: No
Vacancies: 1 available
Do you want to join one of the fastest-growing molecular diagnostics companies to transform prenatal and oncology diagnostics that can affect millions of patient lives?
BillionToOne is looking for a Senior Scientist to enhance our development team responsible for driving innovative next-gen sequencing, robotic automation, and bioinformatics solutions to our high-growth clinical laboratory. This is an extremely impactful scientist role who will own nucleic acid biochemistry improvements as we scale our clinical laboratory another 10x in the next 2-3 years.
Responsibilities
- Lead NGS library prep improvements as a part of laboratory scaling efforts, in collaboration with robotics automation and bioinformatics.
- Provide expert technical judgement for CLIA laboratory processes including, but not limited to, process validations and the transfer of new methodologies to clinical operations.
- Design experiments to validate new diagnostic/screening assays, procedure changes, and instruments.
- Collaborate with the clinical and other R&D teams to transfer new products and procedures into the CLIA laboratory.
Who You Are
- PhD in biological sciences, chemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, or related discipline with extensive molecular biology lab experience.
- Very strong intuition and first-principles approach to molecular biology assays, analytical chemistry tools, and NGS library prep (PCR, DNA purification, electrophoresis, etc.).
- Strong ability to analyze high-throughput experimental data (e.g. in python or R) to iterate and refine experiment design.
- Stellar written technical communication, project management, and organizational skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Start-up experience.
- Ability to analyze NGS data using common bioinformatics tools (e.g. bwa mem, GATK, etc.).
- Laboratory automation experience.
- Experience working under regulatory environments such as CLIA, CAP, or FDA.
About BillionToOne
The genetic testing platform detecting and measuring disease.
Company Size: 251 - 500 People
Year Founded: 2016
Country: United States
Company Status: Actively Hiring
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