Position Title: Associate
Work Location: Thousand Oaks, CA, 91320
Assignment Duration: 12 months Work Arrangement: On-site

Position Summary:

• In Thousand Oaks, the Automated Screening Platforms/ High-Throughput Assays group in the Lead Discovery & Targeted Protein Degradation organization is seeking a temporary contract worker for a laboratory based on-site role to provide assay reagent preparation for screening assay delivery.
• The desired team member will primarily contribute to a high demand for routine cell culture (expansion, banking and quality-control) of various mammalian cell lines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform routine maintenance of mammalian cell lines (expansion, aliquoting, cryobanking)
• Routine preparation of assay reagents to support screening on automated screening platforms
• Order, prepare, and maintain laboratory reagents & consumables to perform assays
• As needed, offline assay validation experiments in 384- and 1536-well plate format
• Collaborating with robotic platform operators to execute high-throughput cell-based & biochemical assays, in support of The Organization’s small molecule therapeutic discovery research pipeline & platform projects
• General laboratory maintenance activities such as preparing media & buffers, ordering/stocking reagents & consumables
• Training will be provided to use The Organization’s assay information management software applications (electronic lab notebook) and as needed utilization of laboratory instrumentation

Qualification & Experience:

• An ideal candidate will have experience with mammalian cell culture techniques.
• Additionally, candidates should be detail-orientated, highly motivated, team player and a quick learner with a strong background in life sciences, molecular & cellular biology, and/or biochemistry.
• Experience in a laboratory setting developing and performing microtiter plate based biochemical & cell-based assays, including familiarity with luminescence-based, TRF, ALPHA, &/or high-content imaging assays is preferred.
• Experience with software programming skills (Python), or using AI agents (Copilot, ChatGPT) are beneficial but not required.
• MS or Bachelor in biological sciences

 
 
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: $ 20.00/hr.