Job Description
Our client, a world leader in diagnostics and life sciences, is looking for Scientist II. Kindly have a look at the details below and let us know if you are interested.
Job Title: Scientist II
Job Location: Pleasanton, CA (Onsite)
Duration: Long Term Contract (Possibility Of Further Extension/Conversion)
Company Benefits:
- Healthcare (Medical, Dental, & Vision)
- Paid Sick leave (per State policy)
- 401K + 2% Company Match
We are looking for an experienced candidate who can understand both the technical and professional components of lab work. You will be a member of the Research and Early Development Team in Pleasanton to support clinical sample processing which include DNA extraction, library preparation, and Next Generation Sequencing.
Responsibilities:
- Routinely execute standard molecular biology techniques, from DNA extraction to target enrichment and next generation sequencing library preparation
- Follow protocols precisely, and with extreme care under design control regulations and GMP laboratory conditions
- Regularly work with human biological samples including blood, plasma, tissue for nucleic acid extraction
- Accurately and consistently record sample tracking information, experimental methods, materials and results in electronic laboratory notebooks and/or worksheets.
- Apply technical writing skills to produce reports and documents.
Qualifications/Skills:
- Bachelor s degree in Biological/Life Sciences, Chemistry, Biochemistry or related field.
- Minimum 4+ years of recent hands-on bench work.
- Strong laboratory proficiency and experience with processing multiple samples with high degree of accuracy in a high through-put environment is preferred
- Experience with high throughput pipetting on daily basis with single and multichannel pipettes with accuracy
- Experience with NGS based workflows including target enrichment, and library preparation is preferred
- Experience with sequencing on NGS platforms is preferred.
- Multichannel pipetting proficiency a must.