Position Title: Senior Associate Scientist
Work Location: Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Assignment Duration: 12 months (Possible Extension)
Work Arrangement: 100% onsite. This is lab-based role, no opportunity for working remotely. Engagement worker will be in the lab 40 hours a week.
 
Position Summary:

• This is a laboratory position within the Clinical Immunology group performing routine cell-based assays to assess the immunogenic risk of early candidate molecules.

 
Key Responsibilities:

• Execution of high-throughput cell-based assays using primary immune cells isolated from PBMC.
• Follow established protocols and aid in assay optimization.
• Operation of liquid handling systems (Hamilton Vantage) to carry out high-throughput flow cytometry staining.
• Document experiments in the electronic lab notebook. Carry-out data analysis and communicate data to key stakeholders.

 
Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree OR Masters degree and 2 years of experience OR Bachelors degree and 4 years of experience.
• Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets: Cell Culture Experience, Multi color flow cytometry, Liquid handling automation, automation.
• Day to Day Responsibilities: Cell based assays, Maintaining the lab, EW will need to be able to present the data to the team.

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• BS degree with experience in immunology research, specifically T cell immunology
• Cell culture experience with primary cells (PBMCs) with knowledge of specific immune cell type isolations using MACS (Monocytes, CD4+ T cells, B cells)
• Experience performing ELISA and ELISPOT
• Familiar with automating cell-based assays
• Detailed knowledge of multi-color flow cytometry operation and data analysis, including experience performing intracellular cytokine staining
• Presents scientific/technical information within the group and across functions.

 
Red Flags:

• Needs to have a minimum level of experience, needs to have at least a year of experience in the role. Someone who has jumped around in different roles, lapses in work experience that are not justifiable. No continued experience in research.

 
Background & Context:

• Today, company is advancing the largest early Oncology pipeline in our history spanning several innovative technology platforms - Bispecific T Cell Engagers (BiTE®s), CAR Ts, Bispecific Antibodies, Oncolytic Viruses, Neoantigen Vaccine and Small Molecules across many targets and more than a dozen tumor types.
• At company, contributions are recognized, and strong performance is rewarded. Regularly recognized as a “Best Place to Work,” we enable staff to chart their own career paths based on their unique talents by offering challenging assignments, active career development, coaching and individual rewards.
• Company is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics.
• This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 45.00/hr.