Job Description
Position Title: Research Operations Senior Associate
Work Location: Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Assignment Duration: 2 Years
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Position Summary: The successful candidate will support discovery research by executing peptide synthesis and antibody conjugation workflows and by delivering high quality, well characterized materials to project teams. This role also contributes to day to day lab readiness to ensure safe, efficient operations.
Key Responsibilities:
• under minimal supervision, plan and set up peptide synthesis, and perform peptide cleavage and purification using RP-HPLC
• conduct antibody conjugation experiments
• analyze and confirm peptide and conjugate identity and purity
• accurately record all experimental procedures, observations and results in the laboratory enotebook
• communicates data and interpretation to work group operate and maintain specialized lab equipment and instrumentation
• perform general lab housekeeping activities, ensuring a clean, safe workspace
• comply with all lab safety guidelines, SOPs and relevant regulations.
Qualification & Experience:
• Master’s degree in chemistry, biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline
• or Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline with 2+ years of relevant experience
• Solid understanding of standard laboratory practices
• Hands-on experience with solid phase peptide synthesis and RP-HPLC purification preferred
• Experience operating and maintaining laboratory instrumentation.
• Master degree or Bachelor degree and 2 years of experience or Associate degree and 6 years of experience or high school diploma / GED and 8 years of experience
• organic chemistry
• experience working in a chemistry lab
• working with purification instruments
• Solid phase synthesis experience
• Solid phase peptide synthesis experience is a huge plus
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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: $ 28.00/hr.