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QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS:

Education:

• Ph.D., M.S., or B.S. in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or equivalent
• Ph.D. with a minimum of 2 years laboratory automation experience or M.S./B.S. with a minimum 8 years of laboratory automation experience is required

PURPOSE:

The Biotherapeutics Development & Supply (BTDS) organization is responsible for the development, clinical supply, marketed product support, and life cycle management of Biotherapeutics. Within BTDS, the Analytical Development (AD) group supports method development and validation, as well as product development, release, and stability analytics via automated workflows.
The Laboratory Automation & Robotics team is recruiting for a Laboratory Automation Senior Scientist to collaborate in migrating analytical assays from manual processes to end-to-end fully automated workflows. In this role you will collaborate with Method Development, Assay Automation, Integrations, Orchestration, Information Technology, Data Science, and Operations to increase sample testing volume while reducing time-to-result, hands-on time, repetitive strain, and assay variability. The primary scientific areas of focus will be therapeutic antibodies and cell and gene therapies – automating analytical workflows such as antigen binding, cell-based bioassays, chromatography, flow cytometry, mass spectrometry, and molecular biology.

YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Collaborating within a cross-functional team to design, develop, and deploy end-to-end laboratory automation
• Creating, optimizing, maintaining, and continuously improving high-throughput workflows using liquid-handling robots and integrated automation workcells
• Expanding the scope of existing automation by introducing new functionalities
• Evaluating novel devices/instruments/technologies for the enhancement of laboratory processes
• Troubleshooting laboratory automation by liaising with internal subject matter experts and external vendors to perform root cause analysis based on thorough scientific and technical investigations
• Sharing knowledge and documenting best practices within the automation team, and supporting and training end-users to independently execute automated workflows
• Partnering with Information Technology and Data Science teams to automate data flows to ensure data integrity through capture in appropriate electronic systems and high-throughput processing via review by exception