Do you want to join one of the fastest-growing molecular diagnostics companies to transform prenatal and oncology diagnostics that can affect millions of patient lives?
BillionToOne is looking for a Senior Scientist to enhance our development team responsible for driving innovative next-gen sequencing, robotic automation, and bioinformatics solutions to our high-growth clinical laboratory. This is an extremely impactful scientist role who will own nucleic acid biochemistry improvements as we scale our clinical laboratory another 10x in the next 2-3 years.
Responsibilities
- Lead NGS library prep improvements as a part of laboratory scaling efforts, in collaboration with robotics automation and bioinformatics
- Provide expert technical judgement for CLIA laboratory processes including, but not limited to, process validations and the transfer of new methodologies to clinical operations.
- Design experiments to validate new diagnostic/screening assays, procedure changes, and instruments.
- Collaborate with the clinical and other R&D teams to transfer new products and procedures into the CLIA laboratory
Who You Are
- PhD in biological sciences, chemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, or related discipline with extensive molecular biology lab experience
- Very strong intuition and first-principles approach to molecular biology assays, analytical chemistry tools, and NGS library prep (PCR, DNA purification, electrophoresis, etc.)
- Strong ability to analyze high-throughput experimental data (e.g. in python or R) to iterate and refine experiment design.
- Stellar written technical communication, project management, and organizational skills
Nice-to-haves
- Start-up experience
- Ability to analyze NGS data using common bioinformatics tools (e.g. bwa mem, GATK, etc.)
- Laboratory automation experience
- Experience working under regulatory environments such as CLIA, CAP, or FDA
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