Scientist III - Molecular Biology

*Job Title: *Scientist III - Molecular Biology
*Requisition ID: *176337BR
When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you'll be supported in achieving your career goals.

*Location/Division Specific Information*
Austin, TX

*How will you make an impact?*
The Sample Prep Research and Development group is a team of passionate individuals who are committed to making the world cleaner, healthier and safer by developing innovate solutions for research scientists. This role will be part of a team developing both Research Use Only (RUO) and In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) products and an opportunity for a highly motivated scientist to work in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will incorporate molecular biology experience and innovative thinking to develop tools/kits/reagents to speed up and ease the workload of scientists.

*What will you do?*

* Present findings to team and provide recommendations based on customer feedback and data generated.
* Will work with teams to apply technical knowledge and customer feedback to develop workflows for nucleic acid purification from biological sample types.
* Modify procedures to suit the needs of experiments.
* Develop a hypothesis, design and execute experiments to test the hypothesis with minimal guidance.
* Analyze the data derived and explain the outcome of their experiments.
* Maintain accurate and detailed lab notebooks and appropriate documentation based on the scientific method enabling scientists to reproduce their experiments.
* May assist in preparing material for manuals, articles for the newsletter, patents or publications.
* Prepares reports documenting experiments.
* Presents research data and conclusions in 10-30 minute sessions.
* Ability to read a scientific paper, reproduce the experiments described and understand the conclusions.
* Complete lab compliance activities.
*How will you get here?*
*Education*

* Bachelor's with 5 years of experience in Biological Science, chemistry, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, infectious diseases or related field.
* Master's degree with 3 years of experience.
* At least 3 years of laboratory experience in an industry setting in a product development environment, required.

*Experience*

* Experience interviewing customers for Voice of the Customer feedback on products.
* Experience writing and implementing quality focused procedures.
* Experience in a clinical setting or CLIA certified laboratory.
* Experience with laboratory automation, different technologies to isolate nucleic acid.
* Experience with real time qPCR, preferred COVID-19 testing.

*Knowledge, Skills, Abilities*

* Strong interpersonal skills with outgoing personality.
* Strong laboratory and technical hands on skills required: Pipet and perform procedures reproducibly; perform a dilution series to create a standard curve; perform lab calculations needed to make solutions from powder or from stock solutions and able to make the buffers from recipes; operate basic lab equipment such as computers, centrifuges, quantitation instruments, Agilent Bioanalyzer, PCR, real-time qPCR instruments, plate readers etc; routine experience with most common molecular procedures such as nucleic acid isolation, endpoint PCR, real-time PCR…
* Solid understanding of word processing, spreadsheet programs, PowerPoint, and statistical analysis.
* Creative and innovative.
* Good writing & presentation skills.
* Strong documentation and strong organizational skills.
* Works well in a team setting.
* Capable of multi-tasking and ensure timely completion and execution of tasks.
* Pays attention to detail.
* Be agile with changing environments.
* Shows initiative by tackling tasks, beyond what is required.
* Encourages and co-ordinates people to achieve goals.
* Generates ideas to improve processes.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 75,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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