Scientific Project Lead for Product Development

Company: Purigen Biosystems
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: October 8, 2020

Job Description:

Purigen Biosystems, Inc., a Venture-backed, life science tools start-up company in the San Francisco bay area, is seeking a Project Lead to join our R&D team. The Project Lead will manage a product team in the development of new chemistries, protocols, and microfluidic chips for applications on Purigens Ionic purification platform. This is a challenging position for the highly qualified scientific/engineering manager who wants to develop cutting-edge life sciences technologies in a fast-paced, start-up environment. Requirements Responsibilities: * Manage a product team in the development of new chemistries, protocols, and microfluidic chips for applications on Purigens Ionic purification platform * Identify and implement characterization methods to validate the performance of new products being developed on the Purigen platform (e.g. digital PCR, NGS, etc.) * Drive feasibility, optimization and validation phases of applications development in close collaboration with R&D chemists, engineers, and marketing * Aid in the design and execution of characterization experiments * Work with Engineering, Operations, and Marketing teams on workflow and performance development in order to facilitate optimization of consumable kits and platform performance (e.g. ease of use, quality, consistency, and overall application performance per defined metrics) * Serve as a technical expert for sample preparation chemistries and sequencing workflows Required Skills: * Must understand the principles of and have prior experience using commercial DNA and RNA sample preparation kits (i.e. off-the-shelf solid-phase extraction kits (beads and/or columns) and liquid-phase extraction reagents) * Hands-on experience with multiple NGS workflows * Must be skilled in molecular biology laboratory workflows and techniques for both DNA and RNA analysis, including amplification, quantitation (Nanodrop, Qubit, etc), electrophoresis (quality and fragment analysis), and next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and workflows * Must be able to work efficiently as an individual contributor, and as a key member of a multidisciplinary team, to achieve project milestones in a fast-paced, dynamic environment * Experience working under a formal Product Development Process * Experience leading a development team through the successful launch of a commercialized genomics product Desired Skills: * Hands-on experience with the development of genomics applications on microfluidics-based instrumentation for the life sciences industry Required Experience: * PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or closely related fields with 5-10 years of prior product development experience in the life science tools industry Benefits Purigen Biosystems, Inc. offers medical, dental and vision benefits.

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