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BillionToOne

Senior Scientist - NGS Assay Development

BillionToOne, Menlo Park, California, United States, 94029


[Full Time] Senior Scientist - NGS Assay Development at BillionToOne (United States)Senior Scientist - NGS Assay Development

BillionToOne United StatesDate Posted: 25 Jun, 2022Work Location: Menlo Park, CA, United StatesSalary Offered: Not SpecifiedJob Type: Full TimeExperience Required: No experience requiredRemote Work: NoStock Options: NoVacancies: 1 availableDo 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 PeopleYear Founded:

2016Country:

United StatesCompany Status:

Actively Hiring

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