Senior Associate Scientist, Molecular Discovery
Pfizer
La Jolla, CA
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Why Patients Need You
Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our science and risk-based compliant quality culture is flexible, innovative, and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in development, maintenance, compliance or analysis through research programs, your contribution will directly impact patients.
What You Will Achieve
Pfizer BioMedicine Design group at San Diego, CA is seeking a highly motivated Senior Associate Scientist with basic knowledge and hands-on experience in molecular biology and protein production to join a dynamic team in antibody discovery, optimization, and production.
How You Will Achieve
Must-Have
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
Research and Development
Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our science and risk-based compliant quality culture is flexible, innovative, and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in development, maintenance, compliance or analysis through research programs, your contribution will directly impact patients.
What You Will Achieve
Pfizer BioMedicine Design group at San Diego, CA is seeking a highly motivated Senior Associate Scientist with basic knowledge and hands-on experience in molecular biology and protein production to join a dynamic team in antibody discovery, optimization, and production.
How You Will Achieve
- Work within a team on various antibody identification, optimization, and/or production projects in parallel
- Implement molecular biology methods such as reformatting scFv to IgG and other modalities
- Purify and deliver transfection-grade plasmids at various scales
- Clone mRNA constructs and perform in vitro transcription (IVT)
- Comfortable working with automation methods using liquid handling equipment
- Design experiments, analyze data, and troubleshoot when issues arise, under supervision of senior colleague(s)
- Present experimental design and results at internal meetings
Must-Have
- B.S in Biological Science (Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology) or a related field (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Biological Engineering) with 3+ years or M.S with 1-2 years of relevant experience in either an academic or industrial setting
- Understand principles and have experience with some modern molecular biology techniques (primer design, vector design, PCR, gel extraction, restriction cloning, Gibson Assembly, In-Fusion, plasmid prep, sequencing verification), preferred in antibody engineering field.
- Understand the underlying principles of the performed experiments and document timely.
- Detail-oriented, outstanding proactive attitude, collaborative, self-aware, and strong interpersonal skills
- Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced interdisciplinary scientific team and the desire to learn new techniques.
- Strong time management skills and ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
- Previous experience with protein and/or antibody engineering
- Previous experience with Geneious or other sequence data analysis software
- Tissue-culture sterile techniques, transient expression, basic antibody purification
- Lifting, sitting, standing, walking, bending, ability to perform mathematical calculations and ability to perform data analysis.
- Last Date to Apply for Job: July 19th, 2024.
- Work Location Assignment: On Premise
- On Premise colleagues work in a Pfizer site because it’s needed to get their job done. They may have flexibility to work remotely from time to time, but they are primarily on-site.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
Research and Development
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Industries
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