Associate R&D Scientist
| Company | PerkinElmer |
|---|---|
| Location | Burlington, MA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
Requirements
- Be a self-starter, needing minimal daily supervision.
- Be able to work towards given goals and deadlines.
- Have excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrate solid analysis skills including Excel spreadsheet-based analysis and documentation, basic statistical knowledge.
- Have experience in basic molecular biology techniques (PCR, electrophoresis, nucleic acid or protein isolation and purification).
- Be knowledgeable about sterile cell cultures techniques.
- Possess a strong team spirit and willingness to work in an interdisciplinary group of scientists and engineers.
Responsibilities
- Planning, execution and analysis of experiments to prove feasibility of new ideas and concepts.
- Generation of highly reproducible data, data analysis and presentation of results and conclusions.
- Participation in prototype testing and assistance in product development and commercialization efforts.
- Migration of manually performed workflows to semi- and fully automated processes including the Company’s Adaptive Focused-acoustics (AFA™) instrumentation.
- Ability to understand and to follow Standard Operating Procedures to support day-to-day activities such as QC tests of instrumentation and reagents.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in industrial settings and/or basic knowledge of document-controlled development processes is a plus.
- Experience with NGS data analysis and NGS Technology in general is a plus.