Sr. Scientist - Assay Development

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The Position

GenMark, a member of the Roche Group, is dedicated to providing world-class solutions for multiplex testing, with enhanced features that contribute to Roche’s commitment to helping diagnose infectious diseases and reduce antibiotic resistance. As the world’s #1 diagnostics provider, the Roche Group offers an unrivaled experience in developing and commercializing predictive tests that enable personalized treatment strategies for patients.

The Opportunity

This is an on-site in Torrey Pines, CA. Ability to travel between GenMark's main Carlsbad, CA headquarters is required.

As a member of our R&D Assay Technology Development team, the Senior Scientist will identify and develop next generation innovations for on-market and future platforms. In addition, you will partner and lead closely with internal scientists, engineers, and external partners to develop protocols for microfluidic consumable and assay development. Your work cross-functionally to drive product, process, and tool improvements to ensure fact-based scientific, engineering, and analytical best practices and principles are utilized.

You will be responsible for identifying, developing, and inventing new molecular biology technologies for highly multiplexed molecular IVD products. You possess strong technical knowledge and practical experience in developing state-of-the-art molecular biology tools (e.g. nucleic acid extraction chemistry from multiple sample types, nucleic acid amplification technologies (NAAT), isothermal amplification, gene editing, CRISPR, Fanzor, protein engineering, etc.) to build highly multiplexed molecular IVD products.

Also, in this role you are:

• Planning, executing, and analyzing cutting-edge technologies that will lead to the development and integration of new molecular diagnostic assays and manufacturing process improvements, and creating the next generation of syndromic molecular diagnostics.
• Working cross-functionally as a hands-on technical leader to develop new IVD products.
• Performing early development on new technologies for future platforms.
• Leading, managing, and organizing projects and junior-level staff, and tracking deliverables.
• Leading within a multidisciplinary project team to integrate assays into current and future platforms.
• Independently identifying, inventing, and internally developing new molecular biology methods and technologies (e.g., nucleic acid extraction chemistries for multiple sample types) for assay and product development.
• Supervising multidisciplinary system characterization activities of current and future platforms.
• Supervising drafting and publishing of data summaries, reports, regulatory documentation, SOPs, and procedures to be presented to internal and external stakeholders.
• Effectively communicating experimental results and proposing new strategies and methods to address immediate and upcoming technical issues to multiple stakeholders.

Who You Are

• You have a PhD degree in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology (or related discipline) with 3+ years of professional product development experience after graduation; or a Masters in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology (or related discipline) with 4+ years of professional experience after graduation; or a BS in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology (or related discipline) with 6+ years of professional product development experience
• You will succeed at this position by having an entrepreneurial/startup mentality and working cross-functionally to investigate new technologies, ideate solutions, and implement ideas into on-market and new products.
• You have extensive experience in IVD product development, expert knowledge of new technologies, and have a problem solving mindset.
• You possess mastery in data analysis, research design, bioinformatics, and application of new techniques is necessary.

Preferred behaviors, competencies, and qualities of the ideal applicant.

•  A PhD in the Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology (or related discipline), along with 3+ years of relevant industry, product development experienc